In This Day in History, May 4, 1970, National Guard troops kill
four students, wounding eight and permanently paralyzing
another at Kent State University In Kent, Ohio.

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11,
20011, terrorist attacks in the United States, was killed by U.S.
forces during a raid on his compound hideout in Pakistan.

The notorious, 54-year-old leader of Al Qaeda, the terrorist
network of Islamic extremists, had been the target of a nearly
decade-long international manhunt.

The raid began around 1 a.m. local time (4 p.m. EST on May 1,
2011 in the United States), when 23 U.S. Navy SEALs in two
Black Hawk helicopters descended on the compound in
Abbottabad, a tourist and military center north of Pakistan’s
capital, Islamabad. One of the  helicopters crash-landed into
the compound but no one aboard was hurt.

During the raid, which lasted approximately 40 minutes, five
people, including bin Laden and one of his adult sons, were
killed by U.S. gunfire. No Americans were injured in the
assault.

Bin Laden’s body was flown by helicopter to Afghanistan for
official identification, then buried at an undisclosed location
in the Arabian Sea less than 24 hours after his death, in
accordance with Islamic practice.

The grounds of the compound are seen after US Navy Seal
commandos raid.

Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) succumbed to illness exacerbated by alcoholism and passed away at age 48.

McCarthy had been a key figure in the anticommunist hysteria
popularly known as the “Red Scare” that engulfed the United
States in the years following World War II.

McCarthy was born in a small town in Wisconsin in 1908. In
1942, he joined the Marines and served in the Pacific during
World War II. He returned home in 1944 and decided to start
a career in politics.

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.
(November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023)

Lightfoot died at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto 
at the age of 84. His declining health had caused him to cancel
his tour three weeks earlier.

In 2022, Gordon Lightfoot received the Golden Plate Award of
the American Academy of Achievement.              

    
Tim Bachman (left) founded Bachman-Turner Overdrive
with his brothers and Fred Turner.

Timothy Gregg Bachman (August 1, 1951 – April 28, 2023)

Tim Bachman, a founding guitarist of Bachman-Turner Overdrive
has died at the age of 71 after battling cancer.      

Tim’s death was confirmed by his brother Randy Bachman and
his son via social media.