THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 4
May 4 in history
What happened on May 4: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1886 and 1919, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Chicago stockyards and Haymarket
1865–1886 — The Union Stock Yards and their “disassembly lines” make Chicago the meat-packing capital of the world; at Haymarket on 4 May 1886 a bomb at a labour rally leads to deaths, trials and the May Day tradition.
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— May Fourth Movement
4 May 1919 — Three thousand students march on the Legation Quarter against the Shandong clause of Versailles; strikes and boycotts spread to two hundred cities. Out of the movement come a new vernacular literature, a generation of radicalized students — and, two years later, a communist party.
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