Once Upon A Time – May 4 – 1979 – Margaret Thatcher Becomes 1st Elected Female Prime Minister Of The U.K.

1471 Battle of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, final battle between the Houses of Lancaster and York: Prince of Wales, Edward of Westminster killed and King Edward IV returns to his throne, restoring political stability to England until his death in 1483

1814 King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decree of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism

1904 Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Historical Events Today Events in 2023

Today in Film & TV

2008 Seth MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep “Family Guy” and “American Dad” on television until 2012, making MacFarlane the world’s highest paid television writer

Today in Music

1959 First Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win

Today in Sport

1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings play their 1st official baseball game, a win against the Great Western Base Ball Club, 45-9

1972 “The Don’t Make A Wave Committee,” a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to the “Greenpeace Foundation”

1893 Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground

Famous Weddings

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

1944 Baseball player Ted Williams marries Doris Soule

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

One was from an impoverished background; the other was a member of the aristocracy. They came together to form Rolls-Royce, the iconic car manufacturer – May 4, 1904