This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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May 4th, 2007	Event	Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado.
May 4th, 2007	Event	The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever.
May 4th, 2005	Death	David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (born in 1930)
May 4th, 2002	Event	An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
May 4th, 2001	Event	The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
May 4th, 2001	Death	Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (born in 1956)
May 4th, 2000	Event	Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
May 4th, 1998	Event	A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
May 4th, 1994	Event	Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
May 4th, 1994	Birth	Pauline Ducruet, daughter of HSH Princess Stephanie of Monaco

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