On This Day:
May 4th
Birthdays:
1929 - Audrey Hepburn (actor).
1930 - Ron Pickering (athletics coach / broadcaster).
1952 - Michael Barrymore (comedian / actor / quiz master / entertainer).
1954 - Pia Zadora (actor / singer).
1959 - Randy Travis (singer).
1975 - Kimora Lee Simmons
1979 - Lance Bass
1995 - Alex Lawther
Events:
1626 - Indians sell Manhattan Island for 24 dollars in cloth and buttons.
1715 - French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella in Paris.
1851 - First of the major San Francisco fires.
1878 - Phonograph shown for first time at the Grand Opera House.
1908 - The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
1983 - The final episode of 'Laverne and Shirley' airs.
