CoM Moderators Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 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" More Historical Events » Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike carey Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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