Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 4

Images

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  Haymarket Station
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  Battle of Tewkesbury
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  May Fourth Movement
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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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  Surrender delegates
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  Margaret Thatcher
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  Manaslu
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  Explosion of Space Shuttle fuel
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  Parliament House, Valletta

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 of England|Template:Nowrap]] 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: Template:HMS 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| C. P. Radhakrishnan |b|1957| Randy Travis |b|1959| Lillian Estelle Fisher |d|1988| Rory McIlroy |b|1989| Noah Beck |b|2001| 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 Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1493 – [[Pope Alexander VI|Pope Template:Nowrap]] (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.