It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.

It was in the midst of such White House deliberations that Premier Khrushchev on May 4 made new inquiries through the U. S. Embassy in Moscow about a meeting with the President in the near future.

The X3. 2. 4 task group voted its approval for the change to ASCII at its May 1963 meeting.

The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.

Later from May to September 4, 1992 he served as Chief of General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

" He died three days later on March 4 ; Louisa May died only two days after her father.

Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

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** Zehra Kadriye Katırcıoğlu ( Istanbul 12 March 1929-Istanbul 15 May 2012 ), married Ahmet Cevat Tugay have 4 sons and a daughter

Abdülaziz ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز / ` Abdü ’ l -` Azīz ; February 9 / 18, 1830 – June 4, 1876 ) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876.

::::( 4 ) the May 18 edition of the The San Francisco Chronicle

( 1990 ) carried out a radial velocity ( Doppler shift of spectral lines ) study of the star in April and May 1988, which showed variability with a frequency of the order of a few microhertz, the highest peak corresponding to 4. 3 μHz ( 2. 7 days ) with an amplitude of 60 ms < sup >− 1 </ sup >, with a frequency separation of ~ 5 μHz.

During Pope Shenouda III's visit to Rome from 4 to 10 May 1973, Pope Paul VI gave the Coptic Patriarch a relic of Athanasius, which he brought back to Egypt on 15 May.

On 4 May 1945 he took the German surrender at Luneburg Heath in northern Germany.

The most valuable memorabilia item relating to Ruth was a 1920-era Yankees flannel jersey which sold in May 2012 for $ 4. 4 million, making it the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia ever sold at public auction.

Powers Fasteners, the makers of the adhesive, revised their product specifications on May 15, 2007 to increase the safety factor from 4 to 10 for all of their epoxy products intended for use in overhead applications.

Caught in the Rain ( issued 4 May 1914 ), Chaplin's first directed picture, was among Keystone's most successful releases to date.

Over 4 million Cambodians ( about 90 % of eligible voters ) participated in the May 1993 elections, although the Khmer Rouge or Party of Democratic Kampuchea ( PDK ), whose forces were never actually disarmed or demobilized, barred some people from participating.

Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41. 4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008.

Labor conflicts followed the industrial boom and the rapid expansion of the labor pool, including the Haymarket affair on May 4, 1886.

These reforms were largely directed against John Wycliff, mentioned in the opening session, and condemned in the eighth, 4 May 1415 and Jan Hus, and their followers.

— May 1, 2000 to February 4, 2001

The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States ( 461 U. S. 574 ).

In May 1982, the Conference of Catholic Bishops accused Ríos Montt of responsibility for growing militarization of the country and for continuing military massacres of civilians.

* 1982 – May Andersen, Danish model

Its popularity became truly evident in 1982 during the Falklands War when sailors aboard the destroyer HMS Sheffield, severely damaged in an Argentinean Exocet missile attack on 4 May, started singing it while awaiting rescue.

The company was founded in May 1982 as the video game development group of Lucasfilm Limited, the film production company of George Lucas.

Ferrigno continued playing the Hulk role until 1981 — although the last two episodes were not broadcast until May 1982.

The Vikings play their home games at the Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis as they have since 1982 ( a bill was passed in May 2012 to build a new stadium for the team, which is expected to open by the 2016 season ).

" hitting top 10 on radio stations in Winnipeg as early as May 1982.

The Haçienda, Factory Records ' own nightclub ( largely funded by New Order ) opened in May 1982 in Manchester and was even issued a Factory catalogue number: FAC51.

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The first elections under the new one-party constitution took place on 1 May 1982.

The inaugural book of the Library of America series was a volume containing Typee, Omoo, and Mardi, published on May 6, 1982.

# Bernardo de Azevedo Brito ( acting ) ( May 1981-February 1982 )

After Israel withdrew from Lebanon, cross-border hostilities between PLO forces and Israel continued, though from August 1981 to May 1982, the PLO adopted a unilateral policy of refraining from responding to provocations.

* May 19 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete ( d. 1982 )

* May 20 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player ( d. 1982 )

* May 21 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer ( d. 1982 )

* May 19 – Colin Chapman, Founder of Lotus Cars ( d. 1982 )

* May 1 – A crowd of over 100, 000 attends the first day of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee.

* May 7 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet ( d. 1982 )

* May 7 – Ian McKay, British soldier, ( VC recipient ) ( d. 1982 )

Disney World opened on October 1, 1971 with only the Magic Kingdom theme park and has since added Epcot ( October 1, 1982 ), Disney's Hollywood Studios ( May 1, 1989 ) and Disney's Animal Kingdom ( April 22, 1998 ).

The March of Dimes sponsored five international conferences in June 1974, November 1977, May 1981, June 1984, and June 1989 and published articles from the conferences in book form in 1979, 1982, 1986, and 1991 from seven longitudinal prospective cohort studies on the development of over 300 children and young adults with sex chromosome abnormalities identified in the screening of almost 200, 000 consecutive births in hospitals in Denver, Edinburgh, New Haven, Toronto, Aarhus, Winnipeg, and Boston from 1964 to 1975.

Except for sabbaticals at the University of California, Davis, 1982 / 83, and at Rockefeller University, 1980 / 84, this pattern of spending summers in Colorado and Los Alamos and winters in Florida continued until Ulam died on May 13, 1984, in Santa Fe.