History for May 4 - On-This-Day.com Horace Mann 1796 - Educator, father of public education in the U.S., author, Thomas Huxley 1825, John Hanning Speke 1827 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 1979 - Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister. 1981 - The Federal Reserve Board raised its discount rate to 14%.
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