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4 May 07 - Friday 1914 Abdel Karim Kassem general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63) 1928 Maynard Ferguson Verdun Québec Canada, jazz trumpeter (Birdland, Roulette) 1929 Audrey Hepburn [Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston] Brussels Belgium (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady) 1942 Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing) 1944 Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing) 1945 George Wadenius rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 1959 Randy Travis [Randy Bruce Traywick] Marshville NC, country singer (Forever and Ever Amen, Diggin' Up Bones) 1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons 1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris France) 1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England 1846 US state of Michigan ends death penalty 1862 Battle at Williamsburg VA 1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee 1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House 1891 Sherlock Holmes "dies" at Reichenbach Falls 1893 Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging 1910 Tel Aviv founded 1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv 1925 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage 1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary 1942 Food 1st rationed in US 1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Fransisco bay 1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death 1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea) 1957 Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show 1957 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam 1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South 1970 National Guard kills 4 students at Kent State in Ohio Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandy Scheuer, William Schroeder 1975 Moe Howard [Moses Horowitz] comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77 1979 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) 1981 Bobby Sands Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike 1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles 1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger 1991 Dennis Crosby son of Bing, commits suicide at 54 1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? Dwight D. Eisenhower -

3 May 07 - Thursday Sgt Mead 19-- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter) 1903 Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) Tacoma WA, crooner/actor (White Christmas, Going My Way) 1920 Sugar Ray Robinson [Walter Smith] middleweight/welterweight boxer (champion) 1928 James Brown Augusta GA, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants) 1936 Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey] Madras India, singer (After The Lovin', Release Me, Quando Quando Quando) 1944 Peter Staples rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing) 1946 Greg Gumbel sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN) 1951 Christopher Cross [Geppert] San Antonio TX, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme) 1953 Bruce Hall Champaign IL, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon) 1955 Steve Jones English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy) 1494 Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it "St Iago" 1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan, the School of Medicine belonged to the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). 1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city 1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas 1851 Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die 1916 Pádraic Pearse Irish nationalist, executed by British firing squad 1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax 1926 Napoleon V Bonaparte French pretender to the throne, dies at 63 1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) 1936 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits 1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams 1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km 1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick 1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech 1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days 1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US 1982 Hugh Beaumont actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73 1989 Christine Jorgensen 1st transsexual, dies at 62 1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. Martin Luther King Jr. -

Philippians 4:13 --- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights called Family. You will have flats called Jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called Faith, a driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success.