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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Today in History

1471
In England, the Yorkists defeat the Lancastrians at the Battle of Tewkesbury.
1626
American Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
1715
A French manufacturer debuts the first folding umbrella.
1776
Rhode Island declares independence from England.
1795
Thousands of rioters enter jails in Lyons, France, and massacre 99 Jacobin prisoners.
1814
Napoleon Bonaparte disembarks at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
1863
The Battle of Chancellorsville ends when Union Army retreats.
1864
Union General Ulysses S. Grant‘s forces cross the Rapidan River and meet Robert E. Lee‘s Confederate army.
1927
A balloon soars over 40,000 feet for the first time.
1930
Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British.
1942
The Battle of the Coral Sea commences.
1942
The United States begins food rationing.
1961
13 civil rights activists, dubbed Freedom Riders, begin a bus trip through the South.
1970
Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on student protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others.

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