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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_4" title="May 4">May 4</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_Day_(China)" title="Youth Day (China)">Youth Day</a></b> in China; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_Day" title="Literary Day">Literary Day</a></b> in Taiwan; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day" title="Star Wars Day"><i>Star Wars</i> Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1493" title="1493">1493</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI" title="Pope Alexander VI">Pope <span class="nowrap">Alexander VI</span></a> issued the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_bull" title="Papal bull">papal bull</a> <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_caetera" title="Inter caetera">Inter caetera</a></b></i>, establishing a line of demarcation dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Rhode_Island_and_Providence_Plantations" title="Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations">Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations</a></b> became the first of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a> to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942" title="1942">1942</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: Aircraft from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a> vessels attacked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> naval forces, beginning the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea" title="Battle of the Coral Sea">Battle of the Coral Sea</a></b>, the first naval action in which the participating ships never sighted or fired directly at each other.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> – An all-female Japanese team reached the summit of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaslu" title="Manaslu">Manaslu</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas" title="Himalayas">Himalayas</a>, becoming the first women to climb a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander" title="Eight-thousander">peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a></b> became the first female <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">prime minister of the United Kingdom</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nevison" title="John Nevison">John Nevison</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1684); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettie_Stevens" title="Nettie Stevens">Nettie Stevens</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1912); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn" title="Audrey Hepburn">Audrey Hepburn</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1929)</p>
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