By The Associated Press
                - Today is Tuesday, May 4, the 124nd day of 1999. There are 241 days
                  left in the year.

                - On May 4, 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash
                  fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began during World War II.
                - In 1626, Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on present-day Manhattan
                  Island.
                - In 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months
                  before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
                - In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for
                  an 8-hour work day turned into a riot when a bomb exploded.
                - In 1916, responding to a demand from President Wilson, Germany
                  agreed to limit its submarine warfare, thereby averting a diplomatic
                  break with Washington.
                - In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was
                  founded.
                - In 1932, mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered
                  the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
                - In 1961, a group of "Freedom Riders" left Washington for New Orleans
                  to challenge racial segregation in interstate buses and bus
                  terminals.
                - In 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters
                  at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine
                  others.
                - In 1980, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia, died
                  three days before his 88th birthday.
                - Ten years ago: Fired White House aide Oliver North was convicted of
                  shredding documents and two other crimes and acquitted of nine other
                  charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair. The three convictions
                  were later overturned on appeal.
                - Five years ago: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader
                  Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that
                  granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
                - One year ago: Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life
                  sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, Calif.,
                  under a plea agreement that spared him the death penalty. In Vatican
                  City, the commander of the Swiss Guard, Alois Estermann, and his
                  wife were found shot to death in their apartment; a Vatican inquiry
                  concluded that a corporal, Cedric Tornay, had shot the couple and
                  then turned the gun on himself.

                *Happy Birthday*
                - The president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is 71.
                - Jazz musician Maynard Ferguson is 71.
                - Opera singer Roberta Peters is 69.
                - Jazz musician Ron Carter is 62.
                - Rock musician Dick Dale is 62.
                - Singer Tyrone Davis is 61.
                - Singer-songwriter Nick Ashford is 57.
                - Actor Paul Gleason ("The Thin Red Line") is 55.
                - Pop singer Peggy Santiglia (The Angels) is 55.
                - Country singer Stella Parton is 50.
                - Actor-turned-clergyman Hilly Hicks is 49.
                - Singer Jackie Jackson (The Jacksons) is 48.
                - Country singer Randy Travis is 40.