00:01On this day in space.
00:03On May 4th, 2011, the first organized Star Wars Day celebration happened in Toronto.
00:09The date for this occasion was selected for no reason other than the fact that May the 4th kinda sounds
00:13like May the Force be with you.
00:16Star Wars fans have been perpetuating this pun since at least 1979.
00:20When Margaret Thatcher took office as the new Prime Minister of Britain on May 4th, 1979,
00:25the London Evening News congratulated her with a front page ad that read, May the 4th be with you, Maggie.
00:30Congratulations.
00:31The phrase also came up in British Parliament during a defense debate on May 4th, 1994.
00:36It eventually started making the rounds on social media through Star Wars fan groups and memes.
00:41For the first commercial Star Wars Day celebration, the Toronto Underground Cinema showed screenings of the Star Wars movies.
00:48Other festivities included costume contests and a Star Wars trivia game show.
00:52Even astronauts at the space station have celebrated Star Wars Day by watching the movies in orbit.
00:57And that's what happened on this day in space.
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