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4th May
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Born

1655 Bartolomeo Di Francisco Cristori

1923 Eric Sykes

1927 Terry Scott

1929 Audrey Hepburn

1946 John Watson

1951 Jackie Jackson

1952 Michael Barrymore

1956 Pia Zadora

1961 Jay Aston



Died

1821 Napoleon Bonaparte

1984 Diana Dors



Music

1964 The Moody Blues were formed in Birmingham.

1968 Mary Hopkin began her career by appearing on 'Opportunity Knocks'.



Sport

1976 Liverpool won the Football League Championship for a record 9th time.

1992 Snooker player Stephen Hendry beat Jimmy White 18-14 in the final of the World Snooker Championship, recording the greatest comeback in the tournament's history as he won the final 10 frames in a row to take the title.



People & Showbiz

1979 Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman Prime Minister.

1984 Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammed Ali was expelled from the British Magical Society after showing television viewers how he performed his favourite tricks.



General Events

1494 Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Jamaica.

1989 Margaret Thatcher celebrated 10 years as Prime Minister, while Colonel Oliver North was convicted of 3 charges in the US District Court in connection with his action in supplying arms to the Contras bought with money made selling arms to the Iranians.

1990 Historic talks between South African President F.W. De Klerk and ANC leader Nelson Mandela came to an end, the first time that the South African government had talks with the ANC since 1912.

1992 4 people were rescued from the tiger enclosure at Woburn Wild Animal Kingdom when they became stranded after their Fiat Panda car overheated, leaving them at the mercy of ten tigers. Soon after they were escorted to safety their car burst into flames.

1995 British fishermen were banned from catching mackerel in the North Sea for the rest of the year after exceeding their quota in just 3 months.

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