Today is Tuesday, May 4, the 124th day of 2010. There are 241 days left in the year.
1494 _ Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1626 _ Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons
1715 _ French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella (Paris France)
1896 _ First edition of London Daily Mail
1924 _ German Republic election fascists and communists win
1932 _ Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1957 _ Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1979 _ First woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1989 _ U.S. launches Magellan to Venus
1990 _ Angela Bowie reveals that ex-husband David slept with Mick Jagger