May 4: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

May 4th marks the 124th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 125th in case of leap years). There are 241 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Audrey Hepburn (1929), Rocco Siffredi (1964) and Keith Haring (1958).
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Holidays

Star Wars day, "May the 4th be with you" pun on "May the force be with you"
Republic of China - Literary Day (???, commemorating May Fourth Movement).
International Firefighters' Day.
Saint Ladislaus of Gielnow
People's Republic of China - Youth Day (???, commemorating May Fourth Movement).
Blessed Catherine of Park
Saint Judas Cyriacus
Saint Florian
Saint Godehard
Saint Monica of Hippo (d. 387)
Saint Ethelred
Saint Silvianus
Saint Titianus
Saint Willerik
Saint John Houghton, Saint Robert Lawrence, Saint Augustine Webster, Saint Richard Reynolds, and Saint John Hale; all put to death in 1535.
Saint Malou
The Netherlands - Remembrance of the Dead.
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Events

2019 At least nine people are killed in an attack on the forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haitar in Sabha (Libya), by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ISIL claims responsibility.
2018 (El Pais) Basque conflict: ETA's final act of dissolution takes place in Cambo-les-Bains France. In the presence of Jonathan Powell, Gerry Adams and Brian Currin, ETA is represented by politicians like Brian Currin, Brian Currin, Cuauhtemoc Carenas, Brian Currin, and Brian Currin. (El Pais). Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish Prime Minister, reminds a crowd about the 853 victims and reaffirms his resolve to end the 60-year-old ETA violence.
2017 2017 Venezuelan protests - A student is shot to death in El Tigre during gunfire. This brings the total number of deaths in protests against Nicolas Maduro to 37.
2016 Conflict in Moro: Abu Sayyaf militants threaten to behead a Canadian hostage and a Filipina hostage as well as a Norwegian hostage.
2015 It has been announced that Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, the daughter of Catherine, Duchess, and the Duke of Cambridge's son, was named after her great grandfather, grandmother and great grandmother.
2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest Ukraine: Pro-Russian militants attack Odessa's police headquarters, forcing the release a number of people who were held for the same deadly violence just two days earlier.
2013 Five US soldiers die in Afghanistan's War on Terror: A bomb explodes in Kandahar. Three more soldiers are also killed in separate incidents.
2012 When armed forces open fire on protestors near Egypt's defense ministry in Cairo, at least one person is killed and at most 373 are injured, water cannons, tear gas and rocks are used to shoot at them.
2011 2011 Syrian uprising
2010 Nashville, Tennessee received 13 inches of rain in two days. This is close to the double previous rainfall record. Parts of Nashville are evacuated after the levee that protects the southern park is breached. In Tennessee, 17 people are killed by flash floods and drowning.
2009 Dominick DeLuise (American comic actor, Blazing Saddles and The Cannonball Run), Smokey and the Bandit II, has died at 75 from prostate cancer.
2008 Cyclone Nargis - Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council declared five states of the Irrawaddy river delta a disaster area after the cyclone that claimed at least 351 lives.
2007 Greensburg, Kansas: Tornado hits, killing at most 12 people and destroying around 90 percent of the town.
2006 A large meteor shower crosses over El Paso, Texas, USA.
2005 Israel blocks the transfer of West Bank Palestinian villages to the Palestinian Authority. Israel claims that they will resume handover when militant groups are disarmed. Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, had previously agreed to transfer five West Bank cities to Palestinian control. However, he has so far only transferred Tulkarm or Jericho.
2004 WNBC helicopter crashes in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. WABC-TV, a rival station, covers the event.
2003 Top Thrill Dragster, the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, opens in Cedar Point, Ohio.
2002 A EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-1500 crashed in a Kano suburb, Nigeria just after takeoff, killing more than 148 people.
2001 The Milwaukee Art Museum's addition is the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure to open in the United States.
2000 Ken Livingstone is elected the first Mayor for London.
1999 The US Mint unveils designs for the Sacagawea dollar coin.
1998 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Buzz Lightyear attend the re-opening of the Moonliner attraction in Disneyland, California. The original Moonliner was removed in 1966.
1997 Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship
1996 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel.
1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1993 Angels in America-Millennium Approaches opens at Kerr for 367 performances
1991 Actress Sharon Gless and producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
1989 US launches Magellan to Venus.
1988 A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant in Henderson, Nevada, causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport.
1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan.
1985 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2.
1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
1980 Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
1979 Jackie Mercer wins her fourth golf title 31 years after her first.
1978 Russian President Brezhnev visits West Germany.
1977 The Space Mountain attraction opens in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in California.
1976 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 performances
1975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
1974 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04.
1973 Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.
1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational.
1968 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 2:02.5.
1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7.
1966 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in the USSR
1964 Another World andAs the World Turns premieres on TV
1963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of five balks in a game.
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island.
1961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
1960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
1959 First Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win.
1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen President of Colombia.
1957 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2.
1956 Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.
1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway
1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open.
1949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives).
1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (German SS) and sentenced him to the death penalty.
1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
1945 German troops in the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender
1942 Food 1st rationed in US
1940 21 not neutral Nazis and communists arrested in the Netherlands
1938 Douglas Hyde (a Protestant) becomes first president of Eire.
1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1935 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05.
1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish President
1930 r May 5 ampndash Mahatma Gandhi is arrested again.
1929 Lou Gehrig hits three consecutive homeruns, New York Yankees 11, Detroit Tigers 9.
1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms
1926 General strike hits Britain
1925 League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage.
1924 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law.
1922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1919 Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv.
1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.
1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany.
1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes.
1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy.
1904 The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1903 The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.
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