Today is Saturday, May 4, the 125th day of 2024. There are 241 days left in the year. In 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began in the Pacific during World War II.
A mushroom cloud rises after a heavy explosion on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington , 8 May 1942. This is probably the great explosion from the detonation of torpedo warheads stowed in the starboard side of the hangar, aft, that followed an explosion amidships at 1727 hrs. Note USS Yorktown on the horizon in the left center, and destroyer USS Hammann at the extreme left.
In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an 8-hour work day turned into a deadly riot when a bomb exploded.In 1932, mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. In 1961, the first group of “Freedom Riders” left Washington, D.C., to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals.) was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, California, under a plea agreement that spared him the death penalty.
In 2012, Adam Yauch the gravelly-voiced rapper who helped make The Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop, died in New York at age 47.
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