EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
May 4
Monday, May 4, 2026
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HISTORIC EVENTS
Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in a spree shooting in Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. It is the second mass shooting in the country in two days.
The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion.
Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by the 2007 Greensburg tornado, a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria.
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
American baseball pitcher (AL saves leader 2007 Cleveland Indians) and broadcaster (Arizona Diamondbacks)
American Basketball HOF guard (6 × WNBA All-Star
Italian-French jazz pianist (Avanti!)
American pop-rock musician
Canadian-American actor (Arrested Development)
Venezuelan baseball catcher (World Series 1995
English comedian and musician
Greek pop-rock singer ("The Desert Is in Your Heart")
American actress (Saturday Night Live)
English TV presenter (ITV Breakfast)
American actor (Matt Cory in "Another World")
British-Australian co-founder of the McGrath Foundation for breast cancer
Croatian tennis player (Hopman Cup Yugoslavia 1991 [Monica Seles]
Hungarian painter and visual artist
American transgender rights advocate and journalist (TransGriot)
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