May 4th

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May 4 is the 124th (one hundred and twenty-fourth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 125th in leap years. There are 241 days left to end the year.

Events

374: According to the tikal city stools (in present Guatemala), Búho Lanzadardos (f. 439) accedes to the throne of the city of Teotihuacán (near Mexico City).
1443: the king of Portugal, Alfonso V, demands the payment of tithes to the settlers of the Azores.
1455: In the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, the Christian hosts of Henry IV of Castile enter the villages of Alora, Coin and Cartama (now province of Malaga), rooting fields of cereal and vineyards.
1502: Christopher Columbus begins his fourth trip to America.
1515: In Rome, Pope Leo X forbids the printing of books not approved by the Inquisition.
1589: In Spain, the English corsair Francis Drake begins his attack against La Coruña, in charge of the Invencible English or Contraarmada, the gigantic navy - greater than the Invincible - that Queen Elizabeth of England sent to Spain after the failure of Philip II to invade England. Who would end up in disaster for the British; "Of the 27,667 men who formed the English fleet of 180 ships, they only reclaimed their pay 3,722"
1614: in the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 km south of the island Terceira (38°24′N 27°00′O / 38.4, -27, on the Azores Islands, 1550 km west of Lisbon), at 17:00 (local time) an earthquake of 11 degrees on the Mercalli scale (of magnitude 12) destroys most of the houses (of adobe).
1675: in the vicinity of London, King Charles II orders the construction of the Greenwich Observatory.
1704: In Portugal begins the Spanish War of Succession, with the landing in Lisbon of the Archduke Carlos of Austria.
1780: In England the Derby of Epsom is run for the first time, famous British water test.
1789: In France, the General States are opened.
1814: In Spain, Fernando VII declared the Constitution of 1812 null and void all the decisions of the Courts of Cadiz.
1839: in Lima (Peru) the journal is founded Tradethe oldest in force in the country.
1862: In the Treasury of the Traperas (Mexico), the Battle of Atlixco (1862) is waged. General Antonio Carvajal and the Atlixquens repel the attack of the French troops of support, one day before the battle of Puebla.
1872: in Oroquieta, Spain, troops of the liberal army, commanded by General Moriones, defeat the Carlists.
1886: In Chicago (United States) the Haymarket revolt happens after the general strike started three days earlier. Because of this massacre, May 1 is celebrated worldwide (less in the United States) on the International Day of Workers.
1887: Spain signs an agreement with the Triple Alliance on the maintenance of the status quo in the Mediterranean.
1888: In La Plata, Buenos Aires and Montevideo there is an earthquake of 5.5 degrees in the Richter scale, known as the Earthquake of the Rio de la Plata.
1901: in Barcelona (Spain) the film is successfully released The wonderful gymnasts.
1902: in Barcelona (Spain) the Floral Games are suspended due to protests against the Spanish flag.
1906: In Paris, President Armand Fallières receives King Edward VII of England.
1908: in the Reichstag a White Book on Moroccowhich deals mainly with the intervention of the French in Casablanca (Morocco) and the attempts of France and Spain to create a police troop.
1909: In Orense, the bishop of the diocese is silenced and stoned.
1909: Seville (Spain) suffers from a severe epidemic of typhus.
1910: an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale almost completely destroys the city of Cartago, the first capital of Costa Rica, with a balance of a thousand dead, approximately 10% of the total population of the city.
1916: Near East is divided into two areas of influence: France takes as protectorates Syria and Lebanon; Great Britain takes Palestine, Transjordania and Iraq.
1917: In the framework of the First World War, Nicaragua breaks diplomatic relations with Germany.
1919: in Beijing, China, a nationalist demonstration against the transfer of German interests to Japan becomes a real claim for China's independence, being the May Four Movement.
1919: In the Zairian city of Katanga (now Shaba) the workers of the Mining Union and the railways are on strike.
1922: England and Italy recognize the government of the Soviets.
1922: In Chile, feminists designate Graciela Mandujano to represent them at the Congress to be held in Baltimore, United States.
1923: In Vienna there are bloody clashes between National Socialists, Social Democrats and the police.
1923: In Madrid, Spain, a branch of the metropolitan is opened from Atocha Street to Vallecas Bridge.
1924: in Germany, the SPD wins in the legislative elections.
1927: In the United States, the military Hawthorne C. Gray, ascends in a balloon to a height of almost thirteen kilometres.
1928: China and Japan resume hostilities.
1929: In Austria, Ernest Streeruwitz presides over the new Government.
1930: In the XXI race Targa Florio, the Italian pilot Achile Varzi beats at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo.
1931: The Spanish Government agrees to a new electoral system.
1934: José Calvo Sotelo arrives in Madrid from exile.
1935: in Granada, Spain, there are violent clashes for the sale of the newspaper Homeland.
1938: The Holy See recognizes the regime of Francisco Franco as a legitimate government in Spain.
1938: In the Republic of Ireland, Douglas Hyde is elected president.
1939: Spain withdrew from the League of Nations.
1939: In the USSR, Maxim Litvinov is replaced by Viacheslav Mólotov as People's Commissioner for Foreign Affairs.
1941: In Madrid, Spain, the Zarzuela Racecourse is inaugurated.
1944: In the Infanta Isabel theatre, The Azahar of the BrideComedy by Luis Fernández Ardavín.
1945: In the castle of Itter the siege occurs to that castle, in which the American troops and the Anti-Nazi Heer unite against the SS to defend the castle being the first time that Americans and Germans battle together as allies and the first time the American army fights in a medieval castle
1947: in Italy, Vasco Pratolini publica Chronicle of the poor lovers.
1949: in Italy, all the members of the Torino staff die in an air accident, the basis of the Italian national football team.
1950: In Argentina, the government of Juan Domingo Perón stops all communist leaders.
1951: In Nicaragua, President Anastasio Somoza took office.
1954: in Paraguay, General Alfredo Stroessner gives a coup d'etat and is appointed president of the Republic.
1954: In a barge on the crater of the Union bomb (detonated on April 25), in the Bikini atoll, the United States detonates the Yankee hydrogen bomb of 13 500 kilotons. In comparison, the Little Boy bomb (the U.S. atomic attack on civilians in Hiroshima in 1945) was 15 kilotons.

The Lacrosse atomic bomb, detonated on May 4, 1956.

1956: in the Eniwetak atoll (in the Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), the United States detonates the Lacrosse atomic bomb (name of an ethnic group of American natives), of 40 kilotons, the first of 17 of the Redwing operation. It is the bomb n. 71 of the 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
1957: in Bilbao, Spain, after half a century of existence, closes the popular El León de Oro coffee.
1962: 1594 meters high, on the Kiritimati atoll, at 9:05 pm (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb Questa, of 670 kilotons. It is the 232 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
1963: in Haiti, President François Duvalier decrees martial law.
1964: in Spain the film is very successful The Verbena of the Paloma, by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, starring Concha Velasco and Vicente Parra.
1967: on the island of Yaros (Greece), more than 6000 people are interned against the regime.
1969: in Punta de Vacas — at the foot of Mount Aconcagua (Argentina), Mario Rodríguez (known as Silo) founded the Humanist Movement.
1970: in Madrid the Spanish tennis player Manuel Santana wins the International Iron Door Tournament.
1970: In Ohio, the United States, the Kent State University massacre took place.
1971: in Buenos Aires Jacobo Timerman founded the newspaper The Opinion.
1976: in Madrid, Spain El País.
1979: In Spain, within the framework of the transition to democracy, the new Senate is constituted.
1979: In the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher is elected head of Government. She's the first woman in this country.
1981: A plenary meeting of ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) was opened in Montevideo (Uruguay).
1982: In the framework of the Falklands War, an Argentine aircraft sinks (by a missile) the destroyer Sheffield, the most modern ship in the British fleet.
1983: Iran dissolves the Communist Party.
1983: in Spain the terrorist group ETA murders Pedro Barquero, the National Police Corps, his wife, María Dolores Ledo and Julio Segarra, lieutenant of the National Police.
1985: in Gothenburg, Sweden The Det Swinge (from the Bobbysocks duo) wins the XXX Eurovision Edition for Norway.
1985: in Alicante, the police find the five bombs announced by the terrorist group ETA.
1985: in the town of Plan (Huesca), the first wedding is celebrated after the “women’s caravan” that arrived in the village.
1988: In Wistard (United States) researchers get (through genetic engineering technique) the first rabies vaccine.
1989: in Beijing, China, students and workers march in demand for democratic reforms.
1989: In Buenos Aires, the Argentine Government approved the third adjustment plan in two months.
1990: in Spain, the biochemical Santiago Grisolía receives the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research.
1990: In Greece, Parliament elects Konstantinos Karamanlis as president.
1990: Born Jorge Luis Jaramillo de los Reyes in Cd. Victoria Tamaulipas.
1991: in Rome, the song Fångad av in stormvind (from Swedish singer Carola Häggvist) is a winner in the XXXVI Eurovision Edition.
1993: the Constitution enters into force in Andorra.
1994: The European Parliament approves the entry of Finland, Norway, Austria and Sweden into the European Union.
1994: Isaac Rabin and Yasir Arafat sign the agreement to establish the first Palestinian entity in Gaza and Jericho.
1995: in Spain, the tennis players Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Conchita Martínez, the golfer José María Olazabal and the athlete Fermín Cacho receive the National Sports Awards.
1996: in Spain, José María Aznar became president of the government, after 13 years of government of the PSOE.
1997: Pope John Paul II beatifies for the first time a Spanish religious of Gypsy origin, called Ceferino Giménez Malla (1863-1936), better known by the nickname "El Pele".
1997: Pope John Paul II beatifies the Rosal Mother Incarnation (1820-1886), reformer of the second betlemite order, first Guatemalan beata.
1998: In the Vatican City, the commander of the Swiss Pontificia Guard, Alois Estermann, and his wife, the Venezuelan Gladys Meza, are killed at home by a deputy officer who then commits suicide.
2000: ILoveYou computer virus paralyzes millions of computers around the world.
2001: Pope John Paul II visits Greece and asks forgiveness of the Orthodox faithful for the abuses committed by the Catholic Church.
2002: The United States launches the Aqua Earth Observation Satellite.
2003: in Madrid, Pope John Paul II canonizes three Spanish religious (Angela de la Cruz, Wonders of Jesus and Genoveva Torres Morales) and two Spanish priests (Pedro Poveda and José María Rubio).
2003: the Club Balonmano Ciudad Real wins the European Recopa in front of the Redbergslids IK while the Portland San Antonio loses the Champions League to the Montpellier.
2004: the price of the oil barrel is $36, the highest price in 13 years.
2004: In the Cathedral of Salvador de Ávila the twelfth exhibition of The Ages of Man.
2005: the Pakistani Government announces the arrest of Libyan Abu Farah, leader of Al Qaeda and responsible for organizing attacks against President Pervez Musharraf.
2005: In Spain, the Ministry of the Environment reports that the Spanish reservoirs are at 59% of their capacity and qualify the situation as extreme drought.
2005: the work L'oiseau dans l'espace of Constantin Brâncuşi is auctioned for 21 million euros, the highest figure reached by a sculpture at an auction.
2005: The Worldwatch Institute and Labor Commissions present a report indicating that Spain is the industrialized country where CO2 emissions are most increased.
2006: Mexico begins the red alert of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
2008: Real Madrid C. F. is proclaimed Champion of League for 31.a time in its history.
2008: In the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, a referendum is held on the autonomy of this region, winning the "yes" with 85.6%.
2009: In Venezuela there is a 5.5-degree tremor on the Richter scale.
2021: In Mexico, a car from the City subway line 12 falls due to structural damage to the bridge it was going through. At 12:23 there were 15 dead and 70 wounded.
2021: In Madrid, the PP wins the elections to the Assembly of Madrid, leaving Isabel Díaz Ayuso as president of the Community of Madrid.

Births

1008: Henry I, French king (f. 1060).
1611: Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (f. 1691).
1622: Juan de Valdés Leal, a Spanish painter (f. 1691).
1654: Kangxi, Chinese emperor (f. 1722)
1655: Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian builder of musical instruments, inventor of the piano (f. 1731).
1718: Philippe Loys de Chéseaux, astronomer and Swiss physicist (f. 1751).
1733: Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician, physical, astronomer and French marine (f. 1799).
1757: Manuel Tolsá, architect and Spanish sculptor (f. 1816).
1766: Johann Friedrich Herbart, philosopher and German pedagogue (f. 1841).
1777: Louis Jacques Thénard, a French chemist (f. 1857).
1780: José María Arrubla Martínez, politician and Colombian statesman (f. 1816).
1786: Manuel Agustín Heredia, a Spanish entrepreneur (f. 1846).
1795: José Gregorio Monagas, Venezuelan military and political (f. 1858).
1796: William H. Prescott, American historian and hyspanist (f. 1859).
1796: Horace Mann, American educator and politician (f. 1859).
1810: Lorenzo Salvi, Italian tenor (f. 1879).
1825: Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist (f. 1895).
1826: Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (f. 1900).
1827: John Hanning Speke, British explorer (f. 1864).
1852: Alice Liddell, British woman, source of inspiration for the work Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (f. 1934).
1874: Bernhard Hoetger, German sculptor (f. 1949).
1875: Ramiro de Maeztu, a Spanish writer and politician (f. 1936).
1880: Bruno Taut, German architect (f. 1938).
1883: Rogelio Fernández Güell, politician, writer and Costa Rican journalist killed by the dictatorship of Tinoco (f. 1918).
1883: Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (f. 1944).
1885: Américo Castro, Spanish historian (f. 1972).
1887: Ramón Carande, Spanish historian (f. 1986).
1887: Nestor Martin-Fernández de la Torre, a Spanish painter (f. 1938).
1903: Luther Adler, American actor (f. 1984).
1904: Joaquín García Morato, Spanish aviator (f. 1939).
1904: Agustín Yáñez, Mexican writer and politician (f. 1980).
1908: Giovanni Guareschi, humorist writer and Italian journalist, author of Don Camilo (f. 1968).
1913: Hisaya Morishige, Japanese actor (f. 2009).
1914: Gaston Baquero, Cuban poet and essayist (f. 1997).
1915: Ana González, Chilean actress (f. 2008).
1917: Orlando Fantoni, footballer and Brazilian coach (f. 2002).
1921: Harry Daghlian, American physicist (f. 1945).
1925: Luis Herrera Campíns, politician and Venezuelan journalist (f. 2007).
1926: Pascual Pérez, Argentine champion Olympic and world champion boxer (f. 1977).
1928: Maynard Ferguson, a Canadian jazz musician (f. 2006).
1928: Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian President (f. 2020).
1928: Wolfgang von Trips, German racer (f. 1961).
1929: Manuel Contreras, a Chilean military and criminal (f. 2015).
1929: Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (f. 1993).
1930: Enrique Chirinos Soto, Peruvian lawyer and politician (f. 2007).
1930: Milián Milianich, Yugoslav footballer (f. 2012).
1931: Gennadi Rozhdéstvenski, director of Russian orchestra and musician. (f.2018)
1932: Carmen Castillo García, Spanish professor and philosopher.
1933: Ricardo Arias Calderón, a Panamanian politician (f. 2017).
1933: Manuel Pareja Obregón, Spanish composer (f. 1995).
1934: Tatiana Samóilova, Russian actress (f. 2014).
1935: José Sanfilippo, Argentine soccer player.
1936: El Cordobés (Manuel Benítez), Spanish bullfighter.
1937: Dick Dale, American musician and guitarist (f. 2019).
1937: David Waisman, a Peruvian businessman and politician.
1937: Ron Carter, American jazz bass player.
1938: Tyrone Davis, American singer.
1938: Carlos Monsivéis, Mexican writer and journalist (f. 2010).
1938: Nicolás Sartorius, Spanish politician.
1939: Paul Gleason, American actor.
1939: Amos Oz, an Israeli writer.
1940: Robin Cook, American writer.
1943: Mari Carmen (María del Carmen Martínez-Villaseñor), Venezuelan and Spanish humorist.
1944: Mónica Bleibtreu, actress, screenwriter and Austrian teacher (f. 2009).
1944: Russi Taylor, American voice actress (f. 2019).
1946: John Watson, Northern Irish Formula 1 pilot.
1948: Jorge Tupou V, king of Tonga (f. 2012).
1949: Graham Swift, British writer.
1951: Jackie Jackson, American musician, The Jackson Five.

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1951: Gérard Jugnot, French actor and filmmaker.
1951: Mick Mars, American guitarist, Mötley Crüe.
1956: Ulrike Meyfarth, German athlete.
1956: Alejandro Escudero, Argentine actor in film, theatre and television (f. 2014).
1958: Keith Haring, American painter.
1959: Randy Travis, American singer.
1960: Werner Faymann, Austrian chancellor.
1960: Guillermo Fesser, journalist and Spanish humorist.
1961: Lucho Herrera, Colombian cyclist.
1961: Herbert Vianna, Brazilian musician, Os Paralamas do Sucesso.
1963: Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, Peruvian archaeologist.
1964: Marc Leduc, Canadian boxer.
1967: Outi Alanne, Finnish writer.
1967: Dominik Schwaderlapp, German Catholic bishop.
1967: Akiko Yajima, Japanese seiyū.
1970: Gregg Alexander, American singer, of the New Radicals band.
1970: Manolo Castro, Spanish radio announcer.
1970: Sergio Basáñez, Mexican actor.
1972: Mike Dirnt, American bassist, of the Green Day band.
1973: Guillermo Barros Schelotto and Gustavo Barros Schelotto, Argentine soccer players.
1973: Gastón Recondo, Argentine sports journalist.
1973: Giuseppe Zappella, Italian footballer.
1974: Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player.
1975: Óscar Jaenada, Spanish actor.
1975: Pablo Ruiz, Argentine singer.
1976: Luis Amado Tarodo, Spanish football player.
1977: Pavlo Read, Argentine musician.
1977: Emily Perkins, Canadian actress.
1977: Mariano Pernía, Spanish footballer.
1977: Demphra, Dominican singer, former member of La Factoría.
1978: Daisuke Ono, Japanese seiyū.
1979: Lance Bass, American singer, of the band 'N Sync.
1979: Warren Barfield, American singer of Christian music.
1980: Masashi ⋅guro, Japanese footballer.
1981: Dallon Weekes, bassist, American singer and composer.
1982: Isabel Aboy, Spanish actress.
1982: Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer.
1986: George Hill, American basketball player.
1987: Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer.
1987: Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish bike rider.
1988: Radja Nainggolan, Belgian footballer.
1988: Enrico Alfonso, Italian footballer.
1990: Bram Nuytinck, Dutch footballer.
1992: Victor Oladipo, American basketball player.
1992: Courtney Jines, American actress.
1992: Ashley Rickards, American actress.
1993: Ruslan Malinovskyi, Ukrainian footballer.
1993: Vitālijs Barinovs, Latvian footballer.
1993: Dorian Finney-Smith, American basketball player.
1993: Johan Mauel Mendez, an important and notable IT security researcher.
1995: Alex Lawther, British actor.
1995: Johnathan Motley, American basketball player.
1995: Martin Ellingsen, Norwegian footballer.
1998: Frank Jackson, American basketball player.
1999: Lee Suhyun, South Korean singer.
2000: Kevin Porter Jr., American basketball player.
2009: Henry of Denmark, Danish prince.

Deaths

1525: Pedro de Córdoba, a Spanish religious and a great defender of Native Americans (n. 1482).
1677: Isaac Barrow, British mathematician (n. 1630).
1727: Luis Armando II de Borbón-Conti, aristocrat french (n. 1695).
1776: Jacques Saly, French sculptor (n. 1717).
1847: Alexandre Vinet, Swiss theologian (n. 1797).
1869: Heinrich Max Imhof, Swiss sculptor (n. 1795).
1878: Roberto de Visiani, Italian doctor and biologist (n. 1800).
1885: Francisco Valero and Padrón, a Spanish politician who signed the Federal Covenant Castellano (n. 1824).
1906: Leopoldo Montes de Oca, a doctor and an Argentine academic (n. 1834).
1912: Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (n. 1861)
1913: Lazaro Garza Ayala, a lawyer, a military and a Mexican politician (n. 1830).
1922: Joaquín Montaña, Argentine military (n. 1846).
1935: Narcissus Díaz de Escovar, a Spanish poet and scholar (n. 1860).
1937: Noel Rosa, sambista, singer, composer, mandolinist and Brazilian guitarist (n. 1910).
1938: Jigorō Kanō, Japanese martial artist, creator of the Judo (n. 1860).
1938: Carl von Ossietzky, German writer and pacifist, nobel prize of peace in 1935 (n. 1889).
1949: Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (n. 1919).
1951: Eduardo Bradley, precursor of Argentine aviation (n. 1887).
1955: George Enescu, director of the Romanian orchestra and composer (n. 1881).
1964: Ramón Barba Guichard, Spanish sculptor and drawer (n. 1892).
1966: Amédée Ozenfant, a French painter (n. 1886).
1969: Osbert Sitwell, British writer (n. 1892).
1971: Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (n. 1934).
1972: Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1950 (n. 1886).
1972: Josep Samitier, Spanish footballer (n. 1902).
1973: Jane Bowles, American writer (n. 1917).
1975: Moe Howard (Moses Harry Horwitz), American Jewish actor and comedian, one of the Three Chiflates (n. 1897).
1978: Jorge de Sena, Portuguese writer (n. 1919).
1980: Mariscal Tito (Josip Broz), Yugoslav military, dictator between 1953 and 1980 (n. 1892).
1984: Bob Clampett, American animator (n. 1913).
1984: Diana Dors, British actress (n. 1931).
1986: Isidro Parga Pondal, Spanish geologist (n. 1900).
1992: Henri Guillemin, French writer and historian (n. 1903).
1993: Andrés Mateo, Spanish footballer (n. 1918).
1997: Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist (n. 1904).
2001: Anne Anastasi, American psychologist, pioneer of psychometry (n. 1908)
2002: Gerónimo Saccardi, Argentine footballer (n. 1949).
2003: Sesto Bruscantini, bass and baritone Italian (n. 1919).
2006: Alejandra Boero, Argentine actress (n. 1918).
2007: Pensri Poomchoosri, Thai singer (n. 1929).
2008: Jaime Gómez, Mexican footballer (n. 1929).
2009: Robert Campbell, Scottish footballer and coach (n. 1922).
2009: Fritz Muliar, Austrian actor (n. 1919).
2010: Ángel Cristo, domador y empresario circense español (n. 1944).
2012: Adam Yauch, American musician, of the Beastie Boys band (n. 1964).
2012: Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (n. 1963).
2013: Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemical (n. 1917).
2014: Elena Baltacha, British tennis player of Ukrainian origin (n. 1983).
2014: Tatiana Samóilova, Russian actress (n. 1934).
2015: Jesús Hermida, Spanish journalist (n. 1937).
2016: Angel de Andrés López, Spanish actor (n.1951).
2017: Antonio Menchaca, Chilean producer (n. 1938).
2020: Don Shula, U.S. technical director of the NFL (n. 1930).
2021: Nick Kamen, British singer and model (n. 1962)

Celebrations

International Day of Firefighters, decided on January 4, 1999, the date of the death of five firefighters during a forest fire in Australia, and was set on the day of San Florián, the patron saint of firefighters.
Star Wars Day. The date was chosen because of the English word game «May the 4th» (4 May), which appears «May the Force be with you» (‘May the Force accompany you’), iconic phrase of films Star Wars.
AfghanistanAfghanistan: Day of Remembrance in honor of the martyrs and the disabled.
ChinaChina: Youth Day, decreed in 1949 to commemorate the May 4 Movement, a nationalist demonstration of students in 1919 against Japanese and Westerners.
United States:
- Rhode Island: Independence Day.
IndonesiaIndonesia:
- Kuningan: Balinese Hindu party, which also takes place on 30 November. This phenomenon occurs because the year śaka balinés has 210 days.
JapanJapan: Kokumin no Kyûjitsu (National Rest).
LatviaLatvia: Independence Day.
Mexico Mexico: Korean Immigrant Day.
NamibiaNamibia: Cassinga Day.
NetherlandsThe Netherlands: Dodenherdenking (National Day of Remembrance, Remembrance of World War II).
Republic of China: Literary Day, commemorates the May 4 movement.
Tonga: Anniversary of the coronation of King George Tupou I.