Historical Events for 4th May 2024

[CoM Moderators]

1783 - William Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1858 - War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1866 - Woodward's Gardens opens to the public in San Francisco
1931 - Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
1964 - Pulitzer prize for General Non-Fiction awarded to Richard Hofstadter for "Anti-intellectualism"
1970 - Pulitzer prize for General Non-Fiction awarded to Erik H. Erikson for "Gandhi's Truth"
1972 - "The Don't Make A Wave Committee," a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to the "Greenpeace Foundation"
1973 - Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
1990 - Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
2013 - Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of "To Kill a Mockingbird"

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[mike carey]

Fun fact, Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party won the UK general election on this day in 1979, and the party took out an advertisement in the London Evening Standard saying 'Maggie, May the Fourth be with you'. This, I'm reliably informed (okay, 'I have heard') was the first use of the now-iconic expression.