Editing May 4 (section)

===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>