Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on May 4 throughout history.
On the evening of 4 May 2023, a shooting spree occurred in the villages of Dubona and Malo Orašje, between Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. Armed with an automatic assault rifle,…
Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in a spree shooting in Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia
W Series was an all-female single-seater racing championship. It was held over a total of three seasons in 2019, 2021 and 2022 before the championship fell into administration and…
The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring
From late 2011 to 2014, Kenya experienced an upsurge in violent terrorist attacks. Kenyan government officials asserted that many of the murders and blasts were carried out by al-…
Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya
Greensburg is a city in and the county seat of Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of the city was 740. It is home to the worl…
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by the 2007 Greensburg tornado, a 1
EAS Airlines Flight 4226 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kano to Lagos, Nigeria. On 4 May 2002, the aircraft serving the route, a BAC One-Eleven 525FT with 69 passe…
One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in
Kenneth Robert Livingstone is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as the firs…
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London)
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California. The county seat of Sacramento County, it is located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in the …
A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after
A prime minister, also known as a chief of cabinet, chief minister, first minister, minister-president or premier, is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in th…
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza St
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuani…
Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union
The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the Contragate, Iran Initiative, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that cent…
Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charge
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactur…
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-30 to deploy the Venus-bound Magellan space probe
On May 4, 1988, a fire followed by several explosions occurred at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada, United Sta…
The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire
The Type 42 or Sheffield class was developed to provide the Royal Navy with a cost-effective, medium-sized guided-missile destroyer focused on fleet air defence. Conceived in the …
Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile durin
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party fro…
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The South African Defence Force (SADF) comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994. Shortly before the state reconstituted itself as a republic in 1961, the fo…
The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people
The Willis Tower, formerly and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Desi…
The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet (442 m) as the world's tallest building
The Don't Make a Wave Committee was the name of the anti-nuclear organization which later evolved into Greenpeace, a global environmental organization. The Don't Make a Wave Com…
The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes it
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Uni…
Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement …
American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South
Malcolm David Ross was a captain in the United States Naval Reserve (USNR), an atmospheric scientist, and a balloonist who set several records for altitude and scientific inquiry,…
Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V ope