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1945-US President Franklin
D.Roosevelt dies in office of a
stroke.He was 63.
1961-Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin is the first person
to orbit Earth (in Vostok 1).
2004-West Indian batsman
Brian Lara hits 400 not out
against England at Antigua to
record the highest individual
score in test cricket.
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1865-US President Abraham
Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes
Booth in Washington,DC.He
died a day later.
1912-RMS Titanic hits
an iceberg at 11.40pm off
Newfoundland.It sank
2.27am the next day with the
loss of more than 1500 lives.
1969-In a first at the
Oscars, there is a tie for Best
Actress -Katharine Hepburn
(The Lion In Winter) and
Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl).
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1964-Gale Wise was the first
woman in the U.S to buy a Mustang Convertible
for $3,447.50 (and she still owns it today).
The first Mustang to be sold in the world was
in Newfoundland a few hours be before Gale
bought hers.
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1964-Ford launches the Mustang.
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1906-San Francisco is
struck by an earthquake, and
subsequent fire, which kills
almost 4,000 people
1955-Physicist Albert
Einstein dies, aged 76.
1956-Grace Kelly and
Prince Rainer lll of Monaco
marry in a civil ceremony in
Monaco,followed by a church
ceremony the following day
1998-The Full Monty wins
Best Film at the Baftas.
2913-The movie Iron Man 3
premierers in London.
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1967-The James Bond film
Casino Royale, starring David
Niven, premieres.
1993-A 52-day siege of the
Branch Davidian religious
sect compound in Waco,
Texas ends after FBI raid,
Seventy six people died,
including leader David Koresh.
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1981-Allison Roe wins the
Boston marathon,the first
New Zealand woman to do so.
Also in1981-The TV series Soap
screens for the last time.
1992-Comedian Benny Hill,
68,dies of a heart attack.
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1976-Barbara Walters
becomes the first female
US nightly network news
anchor ( on ABC News ).
1994-Richaed Nixon,81,the
37th President of the United
States, dies of a stroke.
2012-TV political comedy
Veep premieres on HBO.
2017-US actor Erin Moran
( Joanie on Happy Days )
dies of throat cancer.
She was 56.
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1967-The single Respect
by Aretha Franklin is released
and becomes Billboard's song
Of The Year.
2005-The first offical
civil union ceremonies are
performed in New Zealand.
2011-Prince William and
Kate Middleton are married
in a ceremony held at
Westminster Abbey London.
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1917-William Sanders wins
the Victoria Cross for bravey
during a German U-boat
attack on his ship.He was the
first and only New Zealander
to win the award in
naval action.
1940-Air New Zealand,then
known as TEAL,makes its
inaugural flight from Auckland
to Sydney
1989-The World Wide Web
is launched in the public
domain by English scientist
Tim Benners-Lee.
1993-Monica Seles is
attacked by a knife-wielding
fan during a tennis match in
Hamburg,Germany.She did
not return to tennis for more
than two years.
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1931-The Empire State
building opens I New York.
1939-Batman first appears
in Detective Comics.
1967-Elvis Presley,32,weds
actor Priscilla Beauleu,21,at
Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.
1974-The film Lords Of
Flatbush is released in
New York city
New York
1994-Three-time F1 driver
champion Ayrton Senna,34,
of Brazil is killed in a crash at
the San Marino Grand Prix at
Imola, Italy.
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1937-US novelist Margaret
Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize
for Gone With The Wind.
1991-The 356th and final
episode of the US TV Soap
Dallas screens on CBS.
2007-Three year-old British
girl Madeleine McCann
disappears from her bed in a
holiday apartment in Praia da
Luz,Portugal.
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1944-The movie Gaslight,
starring an 18-year old Angela
Lansbury in her film debut,is
released
1979-Margaret Thatcher
becomes the first woman to
be elected Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom.
Star Wars Day:
The first recorded reference of the phrase being used was on May 4, 1979, the day
after Margaret Thatcher was elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Her political party, the Conservatives, placed a congratulatory advertisement in
the Evening News saying "May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations."
2021-New Zealand netballer
Margaret Forsyth,who won
the World Cup with the Silver
Ferns in 1979 and 1987,dies
of cancer.She was 59.
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1962-The West Side Story
soundtrack album goes to
number one in the US charts
and stays there for 54 weeks.
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1950-Actor Elizabeth Taylor,
28, marries for the first time -
to hotel heir Conrad 'Nicky'
Hilton,23.
1960-Princess Margaret
marries Anthony Armstrong -
Jones (later Lord Snowdon) at
Westminster Abbey.
1992-Actor and singer
Marlene Dietrich dies of
kidney failure,in Paris.She
was 90.
2004-US sitcom Friends
screens it's final episode in
it's 10th and last season
(watched by 52.5 million
People).
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