Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 4
This is a list of selected May 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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A US Army armored car enters Mauthausen concentration camp; the banner in the background (in Spanish) reads as "Anti-fascist Spaniards salute the forces of liberation". -
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Margaret Thatcher -
Manaslu -
Explosion of Space Shuttle fuel -
Parliament House, Valletta
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Greenery Day in Japan | refimprove, stub |
| Remembrance of the Dead in the Netherlands; | unreferenced section |
| 1471 – Wars of the Roses: Yorkist Edward IV defeated a Lancastrian army in the Battle of Tewkesbury. | refimprove |
| 1626 – Having been appointed the new Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Minuit arrived in Manhattan. | refimprove section |
| 1814 – Ferdinand VII abolished the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism. | refimprove section |
| 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy was created as the Naval Service of Canada. | refimprove section |
| 1919 – The May Fourth Movement began in China with large-scale student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Peking, against the Paris Peace Conference and Japan's Twenty-One Demands. | refimprove section |
| 1945 – Second World War: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany, and Denmark. | refimprove section |
| 1949 – A plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football team crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin, Italy, killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, and the journalists accompanying them. | refimprove |
| 1959 – The inaugural Grammy Awards ceremony was held, recognizing outstanding achievement in the American music industry. | refimprove section |
| 1970 – The Ohio National Guard opened fire at Kent State University students protesting the United States invasion of Cambodia, killing four and injuring nine. | refimprove section |
| 1996 – José María Aznar was elected prime minister of Spain, ending 13 years of Socialist rule. | unreferenced section |
| Tipu Sultan |d|1799 | lots of CN tags (14) |
| Michael L. Gernhardt |b|1956 | 2 unreffed sections |
| * 1436 – Swedish nobleman Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson was assassinated while leading a rebellion against Eric of Pomerania. | Too much uncited for a short article. Also says only considered an assassination by "some historians" and confusion over date |
| * 1780 – The first running of the Epsom Derby horse race took place, won by Diomed, owned by Sir Charles Bunbury. | Six citation needed tags in a short article |
| * 1836 – The Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, was founded in New York City. | Too much uncited and post 1960 section is written in WP:PROSELINE. |
| * 1990 – The Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR declared the restoration of Latvia's independence, stating that the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 were illegal. | Section orange tagged for references |
| * 1988 – A fire at an industrial plant in Henderson, Nevada, caused tons of Space Shuttle fuel to explode, resulting in two deaths, 372 injuries, and $100 million in damage. | Section orange tagged for references |
Eligible
- 1677 – Trunajaya rebellion: Dutch East India Company forces under Cornelis Speelman began an attack on Surabaya, on the island of Java.
- 1789 – The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, part of a cultural project initiated by engraver John Boydell, opened in London.
- 1886 – During a labor rally in Chicago, a bomb explosion and gunfire led to the deaths of eight police officers and four members of the public.
- 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Sheffield was struck by an Exocet missile, killing 20 sailors and leading to its sinking six days later—the first Royal Navy ship sunk in action since World War II.
- 2000 – Ken Livingstone took office as the first mayor of London.
- 2015 – The Parliament of Malta moved from the Grandmaster's Palace to the purpose-built Parliament House (pictured).
- Born/died: | Herman II of Swabia |d|1003| Richard Graves |b|1715| William H. Prescott |b|1796| Julia Gardiner Tyler |b|1820| Franklin Carmichael |b|1890| Gotse Delchev |d|1903| Walter Walsh |b|1907| Kanō Jigorō |d|1938| Carl von Ossietzky |d|1938| Amos Oz |b|1939 Lillian Estelle Fisher |d|1988| Christian de Duve |d|2013
Notes
- John Tyler appears on March 29, so Julia Tyler should not appear in the same year
- Tony Award appears on April 6, so Grammy Award should not appear in the same year
May 4: Youth Day in China; Literary Day in Taiwan; Star Wars Day
Pope Alexander VI
- 1493 – Pope Alexander VI (pictured) issued the papal bull Inter caetera, establishing a line of demarcation dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal.
- 1776 – American Revolution: The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations became the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown.
- 1942 – World War II: Aircraft from Imperial Japanese Navy vessels attacked Allied naval forces, beginning the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval action in which the participating ships never sighted or fired directly at each other.
- 1974 – An all-female Japanese team reached the summit of Manaslu in the Himalayas, becoming the first women to climb a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
- 1979 – Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom.
- John Nevison (d. 1684)
- Nettie Stevens (d. 1912)
- Audrey Hepburn (b. 1929)