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    History in 4th May

  • US takes control of Panama Canal project

    The United States takes control of the Panama Canal project from the French government. After ten years of labor, the canal would open in 1914.

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  • Kent State shootings

    Four college students are killed at Kent State University after Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on Vietnam War protesters. The scheduled student protests spoke out against President Nixon's combat expansion into neutral Cambodia.

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