May 4......

May 4 is the 124th (125th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Education "Only the educated are free." — Epictetus

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Racism "[African Americans] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?" — Rush Limbaugh

Thought for the day: "A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1256 - Augustinian monastic order constituted at Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae

● 1303 - Flemings conquers Middelburg

● 1415 - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.

● 1471 - Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury – Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.

● 1493 - Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.

● 1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica.

● 1540 - Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople

● 1572 - Veere sides with Geuzen

● 1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island. Native Americans later sold the island (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and buttons.

● 1634 - Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies

● 1652 - Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels

● 1675 - King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

● 1715 - French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris France)

● 1746 - The Moravians in Pennsylvania established the Moravian Women's Seminary at Bethlehem. It was the first educational institution of its kind established by the "Unitas Fratrum" in (colonial) America.

● 1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel

● 1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.

● 1780 - Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby

● 1783 - Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus

● 1784 - Birth of Carl G. Glaser, German music teacher. Of his many choral pieces, Glaser is primarily remembered today for his hymn tune AZMON, to which the Church today sings: "O For a Thousand Tongues."

● 1795 - Thousands of rioters entered jails in Lyons, France, and massacre 99 Jacobin prisoners.

● 1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam – The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.

● 1805 - Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx NY

● 1814 - Bourbon reign restored in France

● 1814 - Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.

● 1818 - Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling

● 1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean

● 1843 - Great-Britain annexes Natal

● 1846 - US state of Michigan ends death penalty

● 1851 - 1st major San Fransisco fire

● 1855 - American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.

● 1858 - War of the Reform (México); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz

● 1859 - Cornwall Railway opened across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.

● 1861 - At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast

● 1862 - Battle at Williamsburg VA

● 1862 - Yorktown VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains

● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chancellorsville – The battle ends with a Union retreat.

● 1864 - General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock

● 1864 - Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee

● 1865 - Battle of Citronville AL; Richard Taylor surrenders

● 1865 - Battle of Mobile AL

● 1865 - Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his assassination.

● 1869 - The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.

● 1874 - Frank Conrad, the American electrical engineer whose innovations led to the establishment of the first radio station, was born.

● 1878 - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House

● 1886 - During a demonstration protesting the previous day's murders, a bomb explodes in Haymarket Square, Chicago. Between the bomb and the indiscriminate police firing that followed, eight police are killed and 60 wounded. The "Haymarket Massacre" results in the arrest of eight leading anarchists for conspiracy to commit murder; four are later executed, one dies in prison and three are pardoned.

● 1886 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter patented the gramophone. It was the first practical phonograph.

● 1887 - First modern communitarian experiment in Washington state - Puget Sound Cooperative Colony founded at Port Angeles.

● 1888 - Italy & Spain sign military covenant

● 1896 - Grease fire ignites ½ ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek CO

● 1897 - Fire in Paris France bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200

● 1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.

● 1910 - Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent

● 1910 - Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy

● 1910 - Tel Aviv founded

● 1912 - Great parade of women suffragists in New York City.

● 1912 - Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.

● 1915 - Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary & Germany

● 1916 - At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare

● 1917 - Arabs sack Tel Aviv

● 1919 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.

● 1921 - Utopian Home Colony in Washington state ends.

● 1923 - Bloody street battles between Nazis, socialist & police in Vienna

● 1923 - New York state revokes Prohibition law

● 1924 - Beginning of a nationwide general strike in Britain.

● 1924 - German Republic election fascists & communists win

● 1925 - League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage

● 1926 - General strike hits Britain

● 1927 - 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field IL)

● 1927 - Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928

● 1931 - Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president

● 1930 - British police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda Central Prison.

● 1932 - In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.

● 1938 - Gestapo imprison (and later murder) Carl von Ossietzky, pacifist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Ossietzky died in a Nazi concentration camp.

● 1938 - Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire

● 1940 - 21 "not neutral" Nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands

● 1942 - Food 1st rationed in US

● 1942 - German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages

● 1942 - World War II: Battle of the Coral Sea – The battle begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.

● 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg by the British Army.

● 1945 - German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender

● 1945 - World War II: Surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

● 1946 - In San Francisco Bay, US Marines from the Treasure Island Marine Barracks stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.

● 1948 - The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death

● 1949 - The entire Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.

● 1953 - Duke of Edinburgh gets his wings; The Duke of Edinburgh is awarded his pilot's "wings" during a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

● 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

● 1956 - Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam

● 1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

● 1957 - Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam

● 1958 - Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen President of Colombia

● 1960 - 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland

● 1961 - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) begins organizing "Freedom Rides" to desegregate bus terminals in U.S. South.

● 1961 - 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.

● 1961 - Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 meters (record) in balloon

● 1961 - South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested

● 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

● 1964 - 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva

● 1966 - Soviet Government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR

● 1966 - Doctors and dentists get huge pay rise; Harold Wilson's government agrees to increase doctors' and dentists' salaries by up to 30% after fears thousands of GPs would leave the Health Service for private practice

● 1967 - Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7

● 1969 - Several thousand march in the Arboretum to protest construction of a freeway that would have followed the Lake Washington shoreline throughout Seattle. Partially built ramps which would have connected the freeway to the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (Route 520) are still visible.

● 1970 - Vietnam War: Kent State shootings – The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after the ROTC building was burnt down, opens fire on students protesting at the United States' invasion of Cambodia. Four students are killed, nine are wounded.

● 1970 - Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt

● 1970 - In deciding the legal case "Walz v. Tax Commission of New York," the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a New York statute exempting church-owned property from taxation.

● 1970 - The city of Chicago unveils a new monument to policemen killed in Haymarket Square.

● 1972 - Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam

● 1972 - The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".

● 1973 - Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope

● 1974 - An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.

● 1978 - Russian President Brezhnev visits West-Germany

● 1979 - Election victory for Margaret Thatcher; The Conservative Party wins the general election making Margaret Thatcher Britain's first woman prime minister.

● 1979 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-2

● 1980 - President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia dies in Ljubljana at the age of 87.

● 1981 - Donald Eugene Webb is placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.

● 1982 - Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield; The British ship HMS Sheffield is sunk by an Argentine missile fired from a fighter bomber.

● 1983 - Nuclear freeze resolution approved by U.S. House of Representatives.

● 1983 - China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China

● 1986 - President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghánistán

● 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1988 - The PEPCON disaster rocked Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonated during a fire.

● 1989 - Thirty thousand students march for democracy to Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.

● 1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and was acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.

● 1989 - US launches Magellan to Venus

● 1989 - US space shuttle STS-30 launched

● 1990 - Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence

● 1991 - Morris K Udall (Representative-D-AZ), resigns due to Parkinson disease

● 1991 - President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat

● 1993 - Dhammayietra, walk for peace, to Phnom Penh, begins, Siem Reap, Kampuchea (Cambodia).

● 1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

● 1996 - Six arrested in New York City museum of U.S.S. Intrepid in honor of Fr. Daniel Berrigan's 75th birthday.

● 1996 - José María Aznar is appointed Prime Minister of Spain, thus ending 13 years of Socialist rule.

● 1998 - A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

● 1999 - Manuel Babbitt was executed for killing Leah Schendel in 1980. Babbitt had received a purple heart for his injuries in Vietnam while on death row.

● 2000 - Londeners elected their mayor for the first time.

● 2000 - Ken Livingstone voted London mayor; The London Mayoral contest ends in victory for Ken Livingstone, the independent candidate and maverick MP expelled from the Labour Party.

● 2001 - Pope John Paul II follows Saint Paul's footsteps across the Mediterranean, from Greece to Syria to Malta.

● 2002 - An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.

● 2003 - Idaho Gem was born. He was the first member of the horse family to be cloned.

● 2003 - The Outbreak of 2003 begins. Ninety-four tornadoes begin the week-long outbreak.

BIRTHS

● 1008 - Khajeh Abdollah Ansari The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)

● 1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)

● 1654 - Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)

● 1655 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (d. 1731)

● 1715 - Richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804)

● 1733 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)

● 1772 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)

● 1781 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)

● 1796 - Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859)

● 1806 - Sir William Cooke, English inventor; helped develop electric telegraphy (d. 1879)

● 1820 - Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)

● 1822 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (d. 1915)

● 1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (d. 1895)

● 1825 - Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908)

● 1826 - Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)

● 1827 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)

● 1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)

● 1864 - Marie Booth, the third daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1937)

● 1870 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d. 1960)

● 1872 - A. Mitchell Palmer, American attorney general (1919-21); helped touch off the "Red Scare" of 1919-20 (d. 1936)

● 1873 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d. 1940)

● 1874 - Frank Conrad, American engineer; helped establish the first commercial radio station (d. 1941)

● 1889 - Francis Cardinal Spellman, American religious leader (d. 1967)

● 1899 - Fritz von Opel, German automotive industrialist (d. 1971)

● 1903 - Luther Adler, American stage actor (d. 1984)

● 1904 - Umm Kulthum (singer), an Egyptian singer (official Date of Birth)(d. 1975)

● 1907 - Lincoln Kirstein, American dance impresario; director of the New York City Ballet (1948-89) (d. 1996)

● 1913 - Lady Katherine Brandram, née Princess of Greece and Denmark

● 1914 - Emmanuel Robles, Algerian-French novelist and playwright (d. 1995)

● 1916 - Jane Jacobs, Canadian author and activist (d. 2006)

● 1918 - Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese political leader (d. 1993)

● 1918 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (d. 2004)

● 1919 - Dory Funk, Professional wrestler (d. 1973)

● 1921 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (d. 2005)

● 1923 - Ed Cassidy, American musician (Spirit)

● 1923 - Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian

● 1923 - Godfrey Quigley, British actor (d. 1994)

● 1923 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author

● 1925 - Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman

● 1928 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician (d. 2006)

● 1928 - Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt

● 1928 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (d. 1961)

● 1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)

● 1929 - Sidney Lamb, American linguist

● 1930 - Roberta Peters, American soprano

● 1931 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor

● 1931 - Thomas Stuttaford, British conductor

● 1935 - Mr. Fuji, Former professional wrestler

● 1936 - El Cordobés, Spanish matador

● 1937 - Ron Carter, Jazz bassist

● 1937 - Dick Dale, American guitarist

● 1938 - Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (d. 2005)

● 1939 - Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist

● 1939 - Paul Gleason, American actor

● 1941 - George Will, American writer

● 1942 - Nickolas Ashford, American record producer, songwriter, and musician (Ashford and Simpson)

● 1943 - Mikhail Chemiakin, Russian painter

● 1944 - Peggy Santiglia, Singer

● 1944 - Roger Rees, British-born actor

● 1945 - Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist

● 1946 - John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver

● 1949 - John Force, American race car driver

● 1949 - Stella Parton, American country music singer

● 1950 - Hilly Hicks, Actor, minister

● 1951 - Colin Bass, British bassist (Camel)

● 1951 - Mick Mars, American guitarist (Mötley Crüe)

● 1951 - Gérard Jugnot, French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer

● 1951 - Jackie Jackson, American singer and musician (The Jackson 5)

● 1953 - Oleta Adams, R&B singer

● 1954 - Pia Zadora, American actress

● 1956 - David Guterson, American author

● 1956 - Ulrike Meyfarth, German athlete

● 1956 - Ken Oberkfell, American baseball player

● 1958 - Delbert Fowler, American and Canadian professional football player

● 1958 - Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d. 1990)

● 1959 - Randy Travis, American musician

● 1959 - Scott Armstrong, American professional wrestling referee

● 1961 - Mary McDonough, Actress ("The Waltons")

● 1961 - Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist

● 1962 - Oleta Adams, American singer

● 1967 - Ana Gasteyer, American actress ("Saturday Night Live")

● 1968 - Julian Barratt, English comedian and musician, one half of The Mighty Boosh

● 1969 - Ryan Shamrock, wrestling valet

● 1969 - Micah Aivazoff, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1970 - Dawn Staley, Basketball player

● 1972 - Chris Tomlin, Singer

● 1972 - Mike Dirnt, American musician (Green Day)

● 1972 - Manny Aybar, Dominican baseball player

● 1973 - John Madden, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1974 - Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player

● 1975 - Laci Peterson, American murder victim (d. 2002)

● 1976 - Jason Michaels, American baseball player

● 1976 - Ben Grieve, American baseball player

● 1977 - Jose Castellanos, Trumpeter

● 1977 - Emily Perkins, Canadian actress

● 1979 - Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)

● 1979 - Wes Butters, British broadcaster

● 1981 - Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer

● 1982 - Robert Hill, Australian athlete

● 1982 - Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer

● 1982 - Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer

● 1983 - Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1983 - Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress

● 1984 - Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi test cricket player (d. 2007)

● 1985 - Anthony Fedorov, American singer

● 1987 - Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer

● 1987 - Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer

● 1987 - Anjeza Shahini, Albanian singer

● 1992 - Courtney Jines, American actress

● 1994 - Alexander Gould, American actor

● 1994 - Pauline Ducruet, daughter of HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco

DEATHS

● 1436 - Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)

● 1471 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)

● 1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)

● 1506 - Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)

● 1519 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)

● 1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)

● 1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)

● 1626 - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)

● 1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)

● 1684 - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)

● 1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)

● 1734 - James Thornhill, English painter

● 1737 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)

● 1774 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714)

● 1776 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)

● 1790 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)

● 1799 - Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader

● 1811 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)

● 1824 - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)

● 1849 - Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760)

● 1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)

● 1880 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)

● 1901 - John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)

● 1903 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian-Macedonian revolutionary (b. 1872)

● 1922 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)

● 1937 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)

● 1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)

● 1945 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)

● 1955 - Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)

● 1961 - Anita Stewart, American film actress (b. 1895)

● 1969 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)

● 1970 - Kent State victims:
● Allison Krause (b. 1951)
● Jeffrey Miller (b. 1950)
● Sandra Scheuer (b. 1949)
● William Schroeder (b. 1950)

● 1971 - Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (b. 1934)

● 1972 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)

● 1973 - Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (b. 1917)

● 1975 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897)

● 1980 - Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)

● 1984 - Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)

● 1984 - Diana Dors, British actress (b. 1931)

● 1985 - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)

● 1987 - Paul Butterfield, American blues harmonica player (b. 1942)

● 1992 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)

● 2005 - David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Forty Martyrs of England & Wales
● Martyrs of England
● St. Conleth
● St. Cyriacus
● St. Ethelred
● St. Florian
● St. Godehard
● Sts. John Houghton, Robert Lawrence, Augustine Webster, Richard Reynolds & John Hale; all put to death in 1535.
● St. John Payne
● St. Judas Cyriacus
● St. Ladislaus of Gielnow
● St. Malou
● St. Monica of Hippo (d. 387)
● St. Nepotian
● St. Paulinus of Sinigaglia
● St. Pelagia of Tarsus
● St. Sacerdos of Limoges
● St. Silvianus
● St. Titianus
● St. Venerius
● St. Willerik
● Bl. Carthusian Martyrs
● Bl. Catherine of Park
● Bl. Martyrs of the Carthusian Order

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 22 (Civil Date: May 4)
● St. Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis.
● St. Vitalis, monk of Gaza.
● Apostles Nathaniel, Luke, and Clement.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Vsevolod (in holy baptism Gabriel), prince of Pskov.
● Martyr Epipodius of Lyons.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Nearchus.
● Repose of Blessed Fool-for-Christ Athanasius Andreyevich of Orel (1967).

● Christian:
● St. Florian, patron of firemen

● Lutheran, old Roman Catholic, Anglican:
● St. Monica, mother of St. Augustine of Hippo

● The Netherlands - Remembrance of the Dead.

● International Firefighters' Day.

● People's Republic of China - Youth Day (青年节, commemorating May Fourth Movement).

● Republic of China - Literary Day (文藝節, commemorating May Fourth Movement).

● Tonga : Crown Prince's Birthday

● US : Student Memorial Day (1970)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Zambia: Labour Day - (Monday)
● New Orleans: McDonogh Day (1850) - (Friday)

TRIVIA

● May 4th is often known as 'Star Wars Day', jokingly said: 'May the 4th be with you' in reference to the popular phrase in Star Wars: May the Force be with you.


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004

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