“May the Fourth Be with You”
Today is international STAR WARS DAY…
May the 4th HiSTORY be with you…
1700s / 18th century history on the 4th of May
1776 : Rhode Island became the 1st American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area with a low population of 1,098,163 people (2020 census), but it’s the 2nd-most densely populated state in USA.
1800s / 19th century history on the 4th of May
1852 : Alice Liddell the English model of Lewis Carroll was born in Westminster, London (died in 1934 aged 82). She is thought to be the inspiration to the character of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
1900s / 20th century history on the 4th of May
1904 : The Panama Canal construction by USA began in the Republic of Panama, a transcontinental country between Central America and South America. The canal is an artificial 82 km (51 miles) waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The Panama Canal took 10 years to be completed by the 15th August 1914.
1927 : The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was incorporated.
1929 : Audrey Hepburn the Belgian-British actress was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium (died in 1993 aged 63).
1930 : Katherine Jackson the American mother of the Jackson family of entertainers was born Kattie B. Screws in Barbour County, Clayton, Alabama, USA.
1932 : Al Capone the American mobster began an 11 year prison sentence in Atlanta, for tax evasion.
1949 : The Torino football team (except for 2 players) were killed when their plane crashed into the retaining wall at the back of the Basilica of Superga, in Turin, Italy. All of the 31 people aboard that fatal flight died.
1952 : Belinda Green the Australian beauty queen and 1972 Miss World was born in Melbourne, Australia.
1953 : Pia Zadora the American actress and singer was born Pia Alfreda Schipani in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.
1958 : KEiTH HARiNG the American painter was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA (died in 1990 aged 31). His animated pop art imagery emerged in the 1980s New York City graffiti subculture. Keith’s popularity grew from his spontaneous outlines of people , dogs, and various other images on blank black advertising poster board spaces in the New York City subways. The Keith Haring Foundation website : Haring.com
1972 : Don’t Make A Wave Committee a small environmental organization founded in Canada in 1969, officially changed its name to Greenpeace Foundation. Greenpeace official website : Greenpeace.org
1973 : Willis Tower aka Sears Tower in Chicago, the 108-story building became the world’s tallest building, until it was surpassed by the Petronas Twin Towers in 1998.
1953 : Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 : The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held.
1979 : Margaret Thatcher became the 1st female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1979 : “May the fourth be with you” was first made reference to when Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on May the 4th in 1979. Thatcher’s political party placed a congratulatory advertisement in The London Evening News that read “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.”
1988 : The PEPCON disaster rocked Henderson, Nevada, when tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonated during a fire.
1990 : Latvia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
2000s / 21st century history on the 4th of May
2011 : STAR WARS DAY first organized celebration of Star Wars took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Toronto Underground Cinema. The event’s festivities included an Original Trilogy Trivia Game Show, costume contest with celebrity judges, with a big screen featuring internet’s best Star Wars tribute films, mash-ups, parodies, and remixed videos.
2014 : Dick Ayers the American author and illustrator died aged 90 (born in 1924).
May the fourth be with you on Star Wars Day ~ Azoosh.com
STAR WARS DAY explained by The Big Bang Theory in The Proton Transmogrification episode in May 2014
see more interesting events on all the other days of MAY (History On This Day @ Azoosh)
This page was last updated on the 4th May 2021
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