On May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fired their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students and wounding nine.

The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the
conflict in Vietnam, and further galvanized the anti-war movement.

Booker T. Washington was the first Black American to be
honored on a U.S. postage stamp, released on April 7,
1940. As part of the 1940 "Famous Americans Series"
(educators group), this 10-cent stamp recognized his
role as a leading educator and founder of the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute.

It will take nearly four decades for a Black woman to
receive a similar honor: Harriet Tubman in 1978.

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)

TIM MAGUIRE

An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany,
found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes on this day
in 1946.

The Berlin Airlift came to an end on this day in 1949. The airlift had taken
2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade.

African-American James Meredith James Meredith succeeded in registering
at the University of Mississippi on this day in 1962. It was his fourth attempt
to register.

James Meredith is escorted by U.S. Marshals.

James Howard Meredith turned 84 in June.

The Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote)
premiered in Vienna, Austria on this day in 1791.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791)

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955)

                                                                                        (The Washington Post)

Students at Howard University, a historically Black college, located in Washington, D.C., seized the administration building. The sit-in lasted
five days and led to campus reform and the establishment of the Afro-
American studies curriculum. In all, more than 100 students stood in
solidarity.