Editing May 4 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1256]] &ndash; The [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[monastic order]] is constituted at the [[Monastery of the Holy Saviour|Lecceto Monastery]] when [[Pope Alexander IV]] issues a [[papal bull]] ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Flannery|first=John M.|title=The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602-1747)|location=Lieden|publisher=Brill|date=2013|isbn=9789004243828|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fR0zAQAAQBAJ|page=40}}</ref>
*[[1415]] &ndash; Religious reformer [[John Wycliffe]] is condemned as a [[Christian heresy|heretic]] at the [[Council of Constance]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bray|first=Gerald|chapter=On the Truth of Holy Scripture (1377-1378) John Wycliffe (c. 1328-1384)|editor-last1=Kapic|editor-first1=Kelly M.|editor-last2=Madueme|editor-first2=Hans|title=Reading Christian Theology in the Protestant Tradition|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury T&T Clark|date=2018|isbn=9780567566768|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jb1KDwAAQBAJ|page=290|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Christianson|first=Gerald|chapter=Wycliff's Ghost: The Politics of Reunion at the Council of Basel|title=Reform, Representation and Theology in Nicholas of Cusa and His Age|location=New York|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=2012|isbn=9781003420835|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mB22EAAAQBAJ|page=91|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Fastiggi|first=Robert L.|title=The Sacrament of Reconciliation: An Anthropological and Scriptural Understanding|location=Chicago|publisher=Hillenbrand Books|date=2017|isbn=9781595250438|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pdqaDgAAQBAJ|page=96, fn. 17}}</ref>
*[[1436]] &ndash; Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) [[Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson]] (27 April [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Riis|first=Thomas|chapter=The States of Scandinavia, c. 1390-c. 1536|title=The New Cambridge Medieval History. Volume VII: c.1415-c. 1500|editor-last=Allmand|editor-first=Christopher|location=Cambridge, UK|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2015|isbn=9781107568914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qzc8OeuSXFMC|page=682|postscript=none}}; {{cite journal|last=Harrison|first=Dick|title=Murder and Execution within the Political Sphere in Fifteenth-century Scandinavia|journal=Scandia|volume=63|issue=2|date=1997|url=https://journals.lub.lu.se/scandia/article/download/1134/919/2085&ved=2ahUKEwjf-Iro2_aFAxWJ5ckDHX3KBwIQFnoECBAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1ZmuCwzOyw7Vc3AJLaipDf|page=261}}</ref>
*[[1471]] &ndash; [[Wars of the Roses]]: The [[Battle of Tewkesbury]]: [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]] defeats a [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] Army and kills [[Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Panton|first=Kenneth J.|title=Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=2011|isbn=9780810857797|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oeDwEAAAQBAJ|pages=159, 167}}</ref>
*[[1493]] &ndash; In the [[papal bull]] ''[[Inter caetera]]'', [[Pope Alexander VI]] divides the [[New World]] between Spain and Portugal along the [[Line of Demarcation]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hébié|first=Mamadou|chapter=The Acquisition of Original Titles of Territorial Sovereignty in the Law and Practice of European Colonial Expansion|title=Research Handbook on Territorial Disputes in International Law|editor-last1=Kohen|editor-first1=Marcelo G.|editor-last2=Hébié|editor-first2=Mamadou|location=Cheltenham, UK|publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing|date=2018|isbn=9781782546863|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gaFyDwAAQBAJ|pages=48–50}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1626]] &ndash; Dutch explorer [[Peter Minuit]] arrives in [[New Netherland]] (present day [[Manhattan Island]]) aboard the ''See Meeuw''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kroessler|first=Jeffrey A.|title=New York Year By Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis|location=New York|publisher=New York University Press|date=2002|isbn=9780814747513|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjWhBwAAQBAJ|page=9}}</ref>
*[[1738]] &ndash; The [[Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet|Imperial Theatrical School]], the first ballet school in Russia, is founded.<ref>{{cite book|last=Snodgrass|first=Mary Ellen|title=The Encyclopedia of World Ballet|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2015|isbn=9781442245259|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DNvaCQAAQBAJ|page=175}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations|Rhode Island]] becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King [[George III]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lippitt|first=Charles Warren|title=The Rhode Island Declaration of Independence, May 4 1776|location=Providence, R.I|publisher=Rhode Island Citizens Historical Association|date=1906|oclc=1599182|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YsJOAQAAIAAJ|page=30}}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]]: The [[Battle of Seringapatam]]: The siege of [[Seringapatam]] ends when the city is invaded and [[Tipu Sultan]] killed by the besieging British army, under the command of [[George Harris, 1st Baron Harris|General George Harris]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Rosenberg|first=Chaim M.|title=Losing America, Conquering India: Lord Cornwallis and the Remaking of the British Empire|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland & Company|date=2017|isbn=9781476668123|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W34yDwAAQBAJ|page=130}}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; Emperor [[Napoleon]] arrives at [[Portoferraio]] on the island of [[Elba]] to begin his exile.<ref>{{cite book|last=Maclachlan|first=Archibald Neil Campbell|title=Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba: Being a Journal of Occurrences in 1814-1815|location=London|publisher=J. Murray|date=1869|oclc=2580699|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D978YQmcB3gC|pages=214–216}}</ref>
*  1814   &ndash; King Ferdinand VII abolishes the [[Spanish Constitution of 1812]], returning Spain to [[Absolute monarchy|absolutism]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Piqueras|first=José Antonio|chapter=The End of the Legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery|title=Atlantic Transformations: Empire, Politics, and Slavery During the Nineteenth Century|editor-last=Tomich|editor-first=Dale W.|location=Albany, N.Y.|publisher=State University of New York Press|date=2020|isbn=9781438477855|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9u7cDwAAQBAJ|page=83}}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; Formation of [[Ancient Order of Hibernians]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Watson|first1=William E.|last2=Halus|first2=Eugene J.|title=Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2015|isbn=9781610694667|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swPHEAAAQBAJ|page=171}}</ref>
*[[1859]] &ndash; The [[Cornwall Railway]] opens across the [[Royal Albert Bridge]] linking [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]] in England.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Campbell|first=J.M.|title=Some New Brunel Letters|journal=The Journal of Transport History|date=November 1958|issue=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6UJ6L326s0C&q=%22Cornwall+Railway%22+%22Royal+Albert+Bridge%22+%224+May%22+1859|page=201|doi=10.1177/002252665800300403 }}</ref>
*[[1869]] &ndash; The four-day [[Naval Battle of Hakodate]] begins. The newly formed [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] defeats the remnants of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] navy in the [[Sea of Japan]] off the city of [[Hakodate]], leading to the surrender of the [[Ezo Republic]] on May 17.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|title=The Roots and Consequences of Civil Wars and Revolutions: Conflicts That Changed World History|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC=CLIO|date=2017|isbn=9781440842931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBjHEAAAQBAJ|pages=269–270}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; The [[National Association of Professional Base Ball Players|National Association]], the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Thorn|first=John|title=Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=2012|isbn=9780743294041|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqF84JTKCNoC|page=151}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Haymarket affair]]: In Chicago, United States, a [[Improvised explosive device|homemade bomb]] is thrown at [[Chicago Police Department|police]] officers trying to break up a labor rally, killing one officer. Ensuing gunfire leads to the deaths of a further seven officers and four civilians.<ref>{{cite book|last=Green|first=James R.|title=Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America|location=New York|publisher=Pantheon Books|date=2006|isbn=9780375422379|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi74wSzZhk8C|pages=5–8}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1904]] &ndash; The United States begins construction of the [[Panama Canal]].
*[[1910]] &ndash; The [[Royal Canadian Navy]] is created.<ref>{{cite web |title=Naval Service Act {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/naval-service-act |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=4 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[1912]] &ndash; Italy occupies the Ottoman island of [[Rhodes]].
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[May Fourth Movement]]: Student demonstrations take place in [[Tiananmen Square]] in Beijing, China, protesting the [[Treaty of Versailles]], which transferred [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Chinese]] territory to Japan.
*[[1926]] &ndash; The [[United Kingdom]] [[1926 United Kingdom general strike|general strike]] begins.
*[[1927]] &ndash; The [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] is incorporated.<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert Osborne |title=60 Years of The Oscar |publisher=[[Abbeville Publishing Group|Abbeville Press]] |year=1989 |page=8}}</ref>
*[[1932]] &ndash; Having been incarcerated at the [[Cook County Jail]] since his sentencing on October 24, 1931, [[mobster]] [[Al Capone]] is transferred to the [[United States Penitentiary, Atlanta|federal penitentiary in Atlanta]] after the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] denies his appeal for conviction of [[tax evasion]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Capone in Jail; Prison Next|work=Chicago Tribune|date=October 25, 1931|pages=1–2|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|last=Manly|first=Chesly|title=Capone Speeds to Atlanta|work=Chicago Tribune|date=May 4, 1932|pages=1–2}}</ref>
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Battle of the Coral Sea]] begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States [[aircraft carrier]] {{USS|Yorktown|CV-5|6}} on [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] naval forces at [[Tulagi]] Island in the [[Solomon Islands]]. The Japanese forces had [[Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942)|invaded Tulagi]] the day before.
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: [[Neuengamme concentration camp]] near [[Hamburg]] is liberated by the [[British Army]].
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: The [[German surrender at Lüneburg Heath]] is signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompasses all [[Wehrmacht]] units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.
*[[1946]] &ndash; In [[San Francisco Bay]], [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]] from the nearby [[Treasure Island Naval Base]] stop a [[Battle of Alcatraz|two-day riot]] at [[Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary]].  Five people are killed in the riot.
*[[1949]] &ndash; The entire [[Torino F.C.|Torino]] football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in [[Superga air disaster|a plane crash]].
*[[1953]] &ndash; [[Ernest Hemingway]] wins the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]''.
*[[1959]] &ndash; The [[1st Annual Grammy Awards]] are held.
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[American civil rights movement]]: The "[[Freedom Riders]]" begin a bus trip through the [[Southern United States|South]].
*  1961   &ndash; [[Malcolm Ross (balloonist)|Malcolm Ross]] and [[Victor Prather]] attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the [[Project Strato-Lab|Strato-Lab]] V open gondola to {{convert|113740|ft|km}}.
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: [[Kent State shootings]]: The [[Ohio National Guard]], sent to [[Kent State University]] after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the [[Cambodian Campaign]] of the United States and [[South Vietnam]].
*[[1972]] &ndash; The ''[[Don't Make A Wave Committee]]'', a fledgling [[environmental organization]] founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "[[Greenpeace|Greenpeace Foundation]]".
*[[1973]] &ndash; The 108-story [[Sears Tower]] in Chicago is topped out at {{convert|1,451|feet}} as the [[world's tallest building]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Norris McWhirter|author2=Ross McWhirter|title=The Guinness Book of Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZixNAQAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Guinness Superlatives|page=98|isbn=9780851125121}}</ref>
*[[1978]] &ndash; The [[South African Defence Force]] attacks a [[South West Africa People's Organization|SWAPO]] base at [[Cassinga]] in southern [[Angola]], killing about 600 people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cassinga Day 2021, 2022 and 2023 in Namibia |url=https://publicholidays.africa/namibia/cassinga-day/ |website=PublicHolidays.africa |access-date=January 18, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Margaret Thatcher]] becomes the first female [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
*[[1982]] &ndash; Twenty sailors are killed when the British [[Type 42 destroyer]] {{HMS|Sheffield|D80|6}} is hit by an [[Argentina|Argentinian]] [[Exocet]] missile during the [[Falklands War]].
*[[1988]] &ndash; The [[PEPCON disaster]] rocks [[Henderson, Nevada]], as tons of [[Space Shuttle]] fuel detonate during a fire.
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Iran–Contra affair]]: Former [[White House]] aide [[Oliver North]] is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
*1989   &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] launches on mission [[STS-30]] to deploy the [[Venus]]-bound ''[[Magellan (spacecraft)|Magellan]]'' space probe.<ref name="STIsummary">{{cite web |last1=Legler |first1=Robert D. |last2=Floyd V. |first2=Bennett |date=September 2011 |title=Space Shuttle Missions Summary |url=https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/outreach/SignificantIncidents/assets/space-shuttle-missions-summary.pdf#page=50 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512003324/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/outreach/SignificantIncidents/assets/space-shuttle-missions-summary.pdf |archive-date=May 12, 2020 |website=Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program Office |publisher=NASA |pages=2–32}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Latvia]] [[On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia|declares independence]] from the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1994]] &ndash; Israeli [[Prime Minister]] [[Yitzhak Rabin]] and [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]] leader [[Yasser Arafat]] sign [[Oslo I Accord|a peace accord]], granting self-rule in the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[Jericho]].
*[[1998]] &ndash; A federal judge in [[Sacramento, California]], gives "[[Unabomber]]" [[Theodore Kaczynski]] four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]].
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Ken Livingstone]] becomes the [[2000 London mayoral election|first]] [[Mayor of London]] (an office separate from that of the [[Lord Mayor of London]]).
*[[2002]] &ndash; One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a [[EAS Airlines Flight 4226|plane crash]] near [[Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport]] in [[Kano (city)|Kano]], Nigeria.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident BAC One-Eleven 525FT 5N-ESF Kano-Aminu Kano International Airport (KAN) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20020504-1 |access-date=2022-05-03 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Greensburg, Kansas]] is almost completely destroyed by the [[2007 Greensburg tornado]], a 1.7-mile wide [[Enhanced Fujita scale|EF5]] [[tornado]]. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new [[Enhanced Fujita scale]].
*[[2014]] &ndash; Three people are killed and 62 injured in a [[2014 Nairobi bus bombings|pair of bombings]] on buses in [[Nairobi, Kenya]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nairobi|first=Associated Press in|date=2014-05-04|title=Bus bombing in Nairobi leaves at least three dead|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/04/kenya-bus-bombing-nairobi-thika-highway|access-date=2021-05-22|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2019]] &ndash; The inaugural all-female motorsport series, [[W Series (championship)|W Series]], takes place at [[Hockenheimring]]. The race was won by [[Jamie Chadwick]], who would go on to become [[2019 W Series|the inaugural season's]] champion.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hockenheim W Series: Jamie Chadwick wins inaugural race|url=https://www.autosport.com/w-series/news/hockenheim-w-series-jamie-chadwick-wins-inaugural-race-5279100/5279100/|access-date=2021-06-26|website=www.autosport.com|date=4 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in [[Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings|a spree shooting]] in [[Mladenovac]] and [[Smederevo]], Serbia. It is the second mass shooting in the country in two days.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Marjanovic|first1=Uros|last2=Paunovic|first2=Jelena|last3=Bilic |first3=Nikola|date=5 May 2023|title=10 žrtava pomahnitalog Uroša, upucao 25: Jauci paraju nebo nad dva sela kod Mladenovca|trans-title=10 victims of crazed Uroš, shot 25: Screams tear the sky over two villages near Mladenovac|url=https://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/hronika/3673398-prve-fotografije-policijske-akcije-kod-mladenovca|access-date=4 May 2023 |website=Telegraf|language=sr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65490418|title=Suspect arrested after second mass shooting in Serbia|last1=Bubalo|first1=Mattea|last2=Gozzi|first2=Laura|website=BBC News|date=5 May 2023|access-date=5 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vaš |first=Gordana |date=2023-06-23 |title=Preminuo jedan od povređenih u masovnoj pucnjavi u Malom Orašju |url=https://n1info.rs/vesti/preminuo-jedan-od-povredjenih-u-masovnoj-pucnjavi-u-malom-orasju/ |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=N1 |language=sr-RS}}</ref>