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Events on May 4

• 1521 On his way home from the Diet of Worms, Martin Luther is taken prisoner under pretenses near Altenstein Castle and brought to Wartburg Castle under the protection of the Saxon elector Frederick the Wise.
• 1864 The composer Richard Wagner, who is in financial difficulties, settles in Munich at the invitation of King Ludwig II.
• 1886 The Haymarket Riot escalates after a bomb is thrown at a workers' demonstration in Chicago, claiming lives, whereupon the police open fire on the crowd.
• 1904 One year after the mining town of Schalke was incorporated into Gelsenkirchen, the football club Westfalia Schalke, later FC Schalke 04, is founded there.
• 1932 Al Capone is transferred to the federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia, to serve his eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion, from where he continues his business operations.
• 1945 The 2nd French Armored Division under Major General Leclerc reaches Adolf Hitler's Berghof on Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden toward the end of World War II.
• 1948 Bertolt Brecht's play The Caucasian Chalk Circle is premiered at the Nourse Little Theatre, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
• 1979 Following the Conservative Party's victory in the parliamentary elections the previous day, Margaret Thatcher becomes the first prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
• 1980 The President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, dies in Ljubljana. He is succeeded by an eight-member presidency, which, however, cannot prevent the increasing disintegration of Yugoslavia due to the lack of an integrative personality.
• 1986 A malfunction occurs at the THTR-300 nuclear power plant in Hamm-Schmehausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, which leads to the plant's closure three years later.
• 1998 In Germany, the Kranzgeld, a civil-law entitlement to compensation for women, is abolished after 98 years in view of changed moral attitudes.
• 2010 At a Christie's auction, Pablo Picasso's painting Nude, Green Leaves and Bust is sold at a record price of 95 million euros.

Born on May 4

• 1852 Alice Liddell, British inspiration for the heroine in Alice in Wonderland
• 1880 Bruno Taut, German architect
• 1881 Alexander Fjodorowitsch Kerenski, Russian politician
• 1903 Luther Adler, American film and theater actor
• 1935 Rüdiger Nehberg, German human rights activist and survival artist
• 1951 Mick Mars, American guitarist
• 1960 Werner Faymann, Austrian politician
• 1971 Florian Illies, German journalist and author
• 1980 Franziska Weisz, Austrian actress
• 1991 Chris Tall, German stand-up and film comedian

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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