May 4 in Pop Culture History
May 4 in Pop Culture History May 4 is Star Wars Day. “May the Fourth be with you.” 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit (~1594-1638), director-general of New Netherlands, bought Manhattan Island for 60 guilders (about $24 in 1839 dollars) worth of cloth and buttons. 1886 – A labor protest in Haymarket Square in Chicago, …