MAY 4
1961:Led by Congress of Racial Equality director James Farmer, the first group of 13 Freedom Riders (seven black and six white) depart from Washington aboard two public buses, beginning their journey to the Deep South to challenge practices of racial segregation that had been outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia.
1959: Henry Mancini’s The Music from Peter Gunn is awarded album of the year, while Domenico Modugno takes home both record and song of the year for “Volare,” at the first annual Grammy Awards. Perry Como, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald are also among the award winners at the ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles to recognize achievement in the recording industry.
1970: National Guard troops open fire on a crowd of students protesting the Vietnam War and the recent U.S. invasion of Cambodia, at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Four students are killed and nine others are wounded in an event that will be immortalized in the song “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
1959: Henry Mancini’s The Music from Peter Gunn is awarded album of the year, while Domenico Modugno takes home both record and song of the year for “Volare,” at the first annual Grammy Awards. Perry Como, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald are also among the award winners at the ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles to recognize achievement in the recording industry.
1970: National Guard troops open fire on a crowd of students protesting the Vietnam War and the recent U.S. invasion of Cambodia, at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Four students are killed and nine others are wounded in an event that will be immortalized in the song “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
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