Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 4

Eligible

 * 1677 – Trunajaya rebellion: Dutch East India Company forces under Cornelis Speelman began an attack on Surabaya, on the island of Java.
 * 1886 – During a labor rally in Chicago, a bomb explosion and gunfire led to the deaths of eight police officers and four members of the public.
 * 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Sheffield (D80) was struck by an Exocet missile, killing 20 sailors and leading to its sinking six days later—the first Royal Navy ship sunk in action since World War II.
 * 2000 – Ken Livingstone took office as the first mayor of London.
 * 2015 – The Parliament of Malta moved from the Grandmaster's Palace to the purpose-built Parliament House (pictured).
 * Born/died: | Herman II of Swabia |d|1003| Richard Graves |b|1715| William H. Prescott |b|1796| Julia Gardiner Tyler |b|1820| Franklin Carmichael |b|1890| Gotse Delchev |d|1903| Walter Walsh |b|1907| Kanō Jigorō |d|1938| Carl von Ossietzky |d|1938| Amos Oz |b|1939 Lillian Estelle Fisher |d|1988| Christian de Duve |d|2013