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Hey fellow nerds: May the Fourth be with you. Now, on to actual history.

Rhode Island formally declared independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776 — a full two months before the Continental Congress got around to it. The smallest colony, as it turned out, had the shortest patience.

Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at the island of Elba to begin his exile, having abdicated the French throne four days earlier. He was given sovereignty over the island, a personal guard, and time to think. He used all three.

A labor rally in Haymarket Square turned catastrophic when an unknown person threw a bomb at police, who responded with gunfire. Seven officers and at least four civilians died, dozens were wounded, and eight anarchists were tried — in a proceeding that troubled legal observers then and still does now.

Thousands of Chinese students poured into Tiananmen Square to protest the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which handed German-controlled Chinese territory to Japan rather than returning it to China. The May Fourth Movement that followed reshaped Chinese nationalism, accelerated the decline of Confucian tradition, and planted seeds that would grow in directions no one at the rally could have predicted.

The Battle of the Coral Sea began on May 4th, marking the first naval engagement in history in which the opposing fleets never came within sight of each other. Every blow was struck by carrier aircraft. It was a tactical draw and a strategic turning point — the Japanese advance toward Australia was stopped.

German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark, and northwest Germany signed an instrument of surrender to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, effective the following morning. It was not yet the end of the war in Europe, but it was close enough to smell.

Thirteen Freedom Riders — seven Black, six white — boarded two buses in Washington, D.C., bound for New Orleans to challenge segregated interstate travel. They knew from the outset that the welcome in the Deep South would not be warm. They went anyway.

Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine in an engagement lasting approximately thirteen seconds. The photographs taken that day became among the most recognizable images of the Vietnam era, and the nation spent a long time deciding what it thought about what had happened.

Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first woman to hold the office. She would serve for eleven years, reshape the British economy, stand with President Reagan to oversee the ending of the Soviet Union, and become — depending entirely on who you ask — either a savior or a cautionary tale. Here are two of her more famous quotes:

Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin signed the Cairo Agreement, granting Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho and beginning the implementation of the Oslo Accords. It was a genuine moment of possibility. History, as it tends to do, complicated things from there.

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