History for May 4 - On-This-Day.com
Horace Mann 1796 - Educator, father of public education in the U.S., author, Heloise 1919, Audrey Hepburn (Edda Kathleen Hepburn van Heemstra) 1929 - Actress ("Monte Carlo Baby", "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
George F. Will 1941 - Columnist ("Newsweek"), editor, Pia Zadora 1954 - Actress ("Hairspray"), singer, Randy Travis (Randy Bruce Traywick) 1959 - Country singer
1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island. Native Americans later sold the island (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and buttons.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister.
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