who coined the phrase may the fourth be with you
Star Wars Day Apocryphally, the reference was first used on May 4, 1979, the day Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. An online news article from the Danish public broadcaster says her political party, the Conservatives, placed a congratulatory advertisement in The London Evening News, saying "May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations."[4]
May Fourth Movement On the morning of 4 May 1919, student representatives from thirteen different local universities met in Beijing and drafted five resolutions: