4th May 1970:
On a Monday afternoon, during the spring of 1970, students began to congregate in an open area on the Kent State
University campus (USA). They gathered by a building that was burnt down over the weekend. The reason being the
recent anouncement by President Richard Nixon that U.S. forces would enter Cambodia. The Vietnam War had already
created an uneasy atmosphere. The time came when rocks and bricks were thrown towards the ROTC building and the
guardsmen.
Tear gas was deployed and then rifles were focused on the crowd. The crowd moved crowd back and around a
classroom building. The guardsmen followed. And then, in just a matter of seconds, shots rang out. Four students
lay dead and nine were wounded.
4th May 1979:
The Conservative Party has won the general election making Margaret Thatcher Britain's first ever woman prime minister.
Mrs Thatcher arrived at Downing Street to take over from James Callaghan after her party won an overall majority of 43 seats.
4th May 1982:
The British ship HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentine missile fired from a fighter bomber. She had 268 crew members onboard.
The sinking shocked the British and foiled any possible diplomatic solution to the Falkland War between Britain
and Argentina.
4th May 2000:
The London Mayoral contest ended in a clear victory for Ken Livingstone, the independent candidate and maverick
MP expelled from the Labour Party. He would later be inaugurated as London's first elected mayor in July heading
an assembly of 25 newly elected members known as the Greater London Authority.
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