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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48440)5/4/2005 3:28:28 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 50167
 
May 4: Independence Day in Latvia (1990)

1471 - Wars of the Roses: Yorkist Edward IV defeated a Lancastrian army in the Battle of Tewkesbury.

1855 - William Walker and group of mercenaries sailed from San Francisco to conquer Nicaragua.

1919 - The May Fourth Movement began with large-scale student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Peking, China against the Paris Peace Conference and Japan's Twenty-One Demands.

1953 - Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.