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On This Day In History for May 4, 2022

This is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining in 2022.

It was on this date in 1493, that Pope Alexander VI divided the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation

That same date in 1626, Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrived in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw

Also on May 4, 1904, The United States began construction of the Panama Canal

Also today in 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea

Also on May 4, 1972, The Don’t Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changed its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”

The 108 -story Sears Tower in Chicago was topped out at 1,451 feet as the world’s tallest building on this date in 1973

It was also this date in 1998 that A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gave “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Italian instrument maker, inventor of the piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori, born on this date in 1655.

Jean-Charles de Borda, the French mathematician, physicist, and sailor was born 289 years ago today.

Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader was born on that same date in 1928.

Also born on that same date in 1953,  American actress and singer, Pia Zadora.

Also turning 66 today is American astronaut and engineer Michael L. Gernhardt.

Listener Birthdays

5 – Joe Mieczkowski host of Onthepodcast

6 – Amber Pace (not really a listener, but a mother and a wife of listeners)

6 – Bill Barbour

6 – Steve Bickle

6 – Brian Brown

8 – Curtis Parish

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May  4, 2022

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News

First private mission to the ISS splashes down off Florida coast – The Verge

SpaceX launches another historic astronaut mission – CNN

Drones are setting down roots in wildfire-scarred landscapes – The Verge

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Pepper’s Scope: What’s Old Is New Again – Make: (makezine.com)

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