# May 4 for lefties **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4-for-lefties/963945 "2022-05-04T15:55:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4-for-lefties/963945/1 "2022-05-04T15:55:34Z")
May 4, 1886, Haymarket affair, started with 1 May protests for 8-hour day, a May 4 protest in Chicago against police brutality against striking workers that saw a bombing and the police firing into a crowd, the execution of 4 anarchists, and ultimately May Day as the International Workers’ Day, ironically not much celebrated in the US despite its “birth” there May 4, 1970, Kent State Massacre, when National Guard opens fire on students demonstrating against the US expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. On the plus side, Pete Seeger was born May 3, 1919. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4-for-lefties/963945/2 "2022-05-04T16:06:36Z")
May the Fourth, when a plucky antifa force successfully eliminated an oversized weapon of mass destruction. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4-for-lefties/963945/3 "2022-05-04T16:25:45Z")
1961 - The Freedom Riders launched their first ride to the south, making it as far as Birmingham. 1994 - Israel and the PLO signed the Cairo Accords, granting the Palestinians self-rule in Gaza and Jericho.