Star Wars Day 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." The saying was used in a UK Parliament defence debate on May 4, 1994. Astrophysicist and author Jeanne Cavelos used the saying on page 94 of her 1999 book "The Science of Star Wars". In 2008, the first Facebook groups appeared, celebrating "Luke Skywalker Day," with the same catchphrase. While
Star Wars Infinities Star Wars Infinities Star Wars Infinities is a graphic novel trilogy published by Dark Horse Comics from 2002 to 2004. It tells a non-canon alternate version of each film in the original "Star Wars" trilogy in which a point of divergence occurs and changes the outcome of the story. Each individual "Infinities" story is unrelated to the others and is set within the timeline of their original film. Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope is a 2002 three-part story arc in the "Star Wars Infinities" series of comic books. It is an extended alternate ending of the 1977 film "Star