Today in History - History - May 4th

1929Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9

1728George Frederick Handel's opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto" premieres in London

1864General Ulysses S. Grant's Union Army at Potomac attacks Robert E. Lee's Confederates at Rappahannock River

1991President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat

1932Al Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion

2002Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as a Giant, leading his team to a 3-0 win over Cincinnati. Bonds is the first player to hit 400 homers for one team and 100 with another

1979Margaret Thatcher 1st woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

19591st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win

2010Julia Louis-Dreyfus receives the 2,407th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, although on the original star her name is spelled incorrectly

2013Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird

1958Keith Haring, Kutztown Pa, American graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review)

1972Mike Dirnt [Michael Ryan Pritchard], Berkeley, California, American musician (Green Day)

1928Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg South Carolina, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)

1928Hosni Mubarak, Kafr-El Meselha, Egypt, Egyptian president (1981-2011)

1929Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady), (d. 1993)

1796Horace Mann, Franklin Massachusetts, American educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)

2013Actress Keira Knightley (28) weds musician James Righton (29) in France

1941Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley (23) weds Ethel Arnold

1962Actor Christopher Plummer (32) weds columnist Patricia Lewis at the Marylebone Registry office in London

1969Actor Dustin Hoffman (31) weds actress Anne Byrne (25)

2012MCA [Adam Yauch], Beastie Boys vocalist, dies from cancer at 47

1975Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77