What is Star Wars day, and what does it have to do with Margaret Thatcher? Well, if 80s English politics isn’t enough to repel you from Star Wars trivia, here’s more from Newsweek:
Thanks to the pun “May the fourth be with you,” we now have Star Wars Day, which has become more like a real holiday in recent years. (Get it? It’s a play on “may the Force be with you.”) The event’s become even bigger since Disney purchased Lucasfilm and the Star Wars movie franchise in 2012. Since then, May 4 has been a major platform for Star Wars merchandise sales and fan events, with states like California enshrining May 4 as an official Star Wars Day holiday. But the actual origins of Star Wars Day and “May the fourth be with you,” stretch all the way back to the 1970s, when it was first popularized by an unexpected source: Margaret Thatcher and the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party.
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