Battle of Tewkesbury 4 May

The Battle of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, which took place on May 4, 1471, ended one phase of the interminable Wars of the Roses. The mentally unstable Lancastrian King, Henry VI of England, nicknamed "Mad Henry" was deposed for a second time by his rival, the Yorkist Edward IV of England. The battle put a temporary end to Lancastrian hopes of regaining the throne of England and proceeded fourteen years of peace until Henry Tudor finally settled the argument at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Another famous nickname, Al ‘Scarface’ Capone was sent to Atlanta prison on May 4 1932 for tax evasion. Alphonse Gabriel Capone, famous American gangster of the 1920s and 1930s was, according to his business card, a used furniture dealer, although he may have been fibbing. Sometime in the mid-1930s, whilst at Alcatraz, Capone began showing signs of dementia. ‘Crazy Al’, as he became known by the braver inmates, died on January 24, 1947. Finally on the subject of nicknames, (and somewhat topically) Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 4 May 1979. She acquired more nicknames than any other British leader - "The Great She-Elephant", "Attila the Hen", and "The Grocer’s Daughter" to name but a few. "The Iron Lady" retired from Parliament at the 1992 election.