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Today in History – May 4

1994 Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord to ensure Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho
Together with Shimon Peres, the two leaders received the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. A year later, Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist.
1959 The Grammy is presented for the first time
It is one of the most prestigious awards in the music industry. Winners of the first edition included Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Mancini, and Frank Sinatra.
1953 Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize
The American author was awarded the prestigious accolade for his novel The Old Man and the Sea. The story about a fisherman and his battle with a large marlin also earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1904 The United States takes over the construction of the Panama Canal
French engineers had begun digging a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in 1881, but they had to abandon the project after about 22,000 lives had been lost to accidents and disease.
1675 King Charles II of England commissions the Royal Observatory in Greenwich
The observatory was built on the prime meridian. The mean solar time at this location is the basis for Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Births On This Day

1989 Rory McIlroy (Irish golfer)
1983 Trisha Krishnan (Indian actress)
1972 Jyoti Randhawa (Indian golfer)
1942 Sam Pitroda (Indian businessman & politician)
1929 Audrey Hepburn (Belgian/English actress, singer)
1928 Hosni Mubarak (Egyptian air marshal, politician, 4th President of Egypt)
1916 Jane Jacobs (American/Canadian journalist, author, activist)
1825 Thomas Henry Huxley (English biologist)

Deaths On This Day

2014 Elena Baltacha (Ukrainian/Scottish tennis player)
1980 Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslav marshal, politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia)
1924 E. Nesbit (English author)
1903 Gotse Delchev (Bulgarian activist)
1799 Tipu Sultan (Indian king)