Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 May 4

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• ... that the Cypress Tomb (pictured) in Lahore, Pakistan, is so named because of the cypress tree motif on its exterior walls?
• ... that Thorwald Jørgensen enjoys playing Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise" on the theremin?
• ... that
  Muslims
  ?
• ... that the folk rock band The Rails is the first band to release an album on Island Records' Pink Label since the 1970s?
• ... that Monmouth University Library was originally the summer home of Murry and Leonie Guggenheim?
• ... that
  open letter
  urging AI researchers not to create anything that can't be controlled?
• ... that Leach Creek flows through 49 pipes?
• ... that Christoph Martin Wieland's satire Die Geschichte der Abderiten suggests that small-minded ancient Greek frog-worshippers had much in common with provincial Germans?

• In horse racing, American Pharoah, ridden by Victor Espinoza, wins the Kentucky Derby.
• Following
  death of Freddie Gray
  .
• More than 500 women and children are freed during military operations against Boko Haram in the Sambisa Forest, Nigeria.
• NASA's MESSENGER probe (artist's rendering pictured) purposely crashes into the surface of Mercury, completing an eleven-year mission.
• Scientists announce the discovery of Yi qi, the first known dinosaur with membranous wings.

Ongoing:

May 4: Remembrance of the Dead in the Netherlands; Star Wars Day

• 1493 – Pope Alexander VI (pictured) issued the papal bull Inter caetera, establishing a line of demarcation dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal.
• labor rally in Chicago into the Haymarket massacre
  , which resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and many bystanders.
• 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy engaged Allied naval forces at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other.
• United States invasion of Cambodia
  , killing four and injuring nine.
• Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR declared the restoration of independence of Latvia, stating that the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940
  were illegal.

More anniversaries: May 3 – May 4 – May 5

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