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May 4: Youth Day in China; Literary Day in Taiwan; Star Wars Day

Pope Alexander VI

1493 – Pope Alexander VI (pictured) issued the papal bull Inter caetera, establishing a line of demarcation dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal.
1776 – American Revolution: The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations became the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown.
1942 – World War II: Aircraft from Imperial Japanese Navy vessels attacked Allied naval forces, beginning the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval action in which the participating ships never sighted or fired directly at each other.
1974 – An all-female Japanese team reached the summit of Manaslu in the Himalayas, becoming the first women to climb a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom.

John Nevison (d. 1684)
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Audrey Hepburn (b. 1929)

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In Canada, the Liberal Party wins the most seats in the federal election.
A power outage affects most of the Iberian Peninsula.
An explosion and fire at the Port of Shahid Rajaee, Iran, kills at least 70 people and injures more than 1,200 others.

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T. D. Bancroft

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... that a reviewer praised At Hope's Ravine by saying that singer Pat Hynes sounds "like he's being unbearably tortured whilst holding a pneumatic drill"?
... that Carlos Baxter was erroneously given 130 votes meant for his brother during the 1860 U.S. House of Representatives election?
... that during the Spanish Civil War, when the government fled the coming siege of Madrid, the Rosal Column detained several government ministers and accused them of cowardice?
... that Almeda Lambert provided detailed instructions for creating homemade meat substitutes, such as "Nutora" and "Nutmeato"?
... that Tao Asian Bistro was used by The New York Times to test new conversation-boosting features in Apple's AirPods Pro?
... that runner Mirsada Burić survived a concentration camp, an attempted rape, and snipers' bullets before she competed at the 1992 Olympics?
... that a former U.S. president helped dedicate the United Engineering Center, and a future U.S. president demolished it?
... that former governor of Jakarta Sutiyoso has a museum dedicated to himself in his backyard?

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