On This Progressive Day: May 4Progressive union thugs throw a bomb at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, killing eight and wounding 60 (1886)
The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, open fire killing four students and wounding nine others (1970)
Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation (1990)
b: Horace Mann (1796), Hosni Mubarak (1928); d: Edith Nesbit (1924), Josip Broz Tito (1980)
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