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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010

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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