Explore May 4's key events including the Kent State shootings, Battle of Tewkesbury, Panama Canal start, Thatcher's election, and the May Fourth Movement in China.

A former Kent State student will talk about the events leading up and following the May 4, 1970, campus shootings, in which Ohio National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of demonstrators during a Vietnam ...

Those words, following Neil Young’s mournful guitar lick that opens the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song, “Ohio,” have helped document a watershed moment in U.S. history. “Four dead in Ohio.” Monday ...

KENT, Ohio (WOIO) - Hundreds of people gathered to remember the four students killed and nine wounded when Ohio National Guard troops fired into a crowd of students 56 years ago. The ceremony took ...

KENT, Ohio (WJW) – Kent State University on Monday marked 56 years since the Ohio National Guard opened fire on Vietnam War protesters, killing four of them and injuring nine others. On Monday, the ...

Over 50 years ago on May 4, 1970, National Guard members killed four college students and wounded nine others in what became ...

Yogi Berra famously said it ain’t over until it’s over. I turned on the NBA playoffs last Tuesday, expecting to watch funeral services for the 76ers, and somehow they jumped out of the coffin. The ...

On May 4, 1970, a dark incident known as the Kent State shootings took place at Kent State University in Ohio. The shootings took place during a 300-person rally meant to protest the Vietnam War, the ...