Talk:May 4
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May 4: Remembrance of the Dead in the Netherlands .
- 1471 - Wars of the Roses: Yorkist Edward IV defeated a Lancastrian army in the Battle of Tewkesbury (pictured).
- 1855 - William Walker and a group of mercenaries sailed from San Francisco to conquer Nicaragua.
- 1886 - A bomb exploded near the police line, turning a peaceful labor rally in Chicago into the Haymarket Riot.
- 1919 - The May Fourth Movement began in China with large-scale student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Peking against the Paris Peace Conference and Japan's Twenty-One Demands.
- 1953 - Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
Recent days: May 3 – May 2 – May 1
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