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On This Day 4th May - Hedgehog - 05-04-2009 1942: The first 'selection' for gassing takes place at the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. 1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female prime minister following a landslide election victory. 1980: Josip Broz Tito, whose rule had held the ethnic factions of Yugoslavia together since 1945, dies.