Today is Friday, May 4, the 124th day of 2018. There are 241 days left in the year.
1540 — Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1652 — Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
1715 — French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris France)
1783 — Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1863 — Battle of Chancellorsville ends-Beaten Union army withdraws
1864 General Grant’s Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1918 — Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox’s Babe Ruth 5-4
1922 — KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1923 — Bloody street battles between Nazis, socialist & police in Vienna