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, with their “disassembly lines”, make Chicago the world’s meat-packing capital. On 4 May 1886, a bomb at a labor rally in Haymarket leads to deaths and trials, and to the May Day tradition.
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— May Fourth Movement
4 May 1919 — Three thousand students march on the Legation Quarter to protest the Shandong clause of Versailles. Strikes and boycotts spread to two hundred cities. The movement helps produce a new vernacular literature and a generation of radicalized students; two years later, a communist party follows.
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