Comments on: The spherical BB-8 droid demoed at Star Wars Celebration is real – Geek https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/04/19/the-spherical-bb-8-droid-demoed-at-star-wars-celebration-is-real-geek/ All about electronics and circuit design Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/04/19/the-spherical-bb-8-droid-demoed-at-star-wars-celebration-is-real-geek/comment-page-1/#comment-1385431 Tue, 05 May 2015 09:14:10 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=31390#comment-1385431 Star wars was also celebrated yesterday:

Star Wars Day celebrations begin, May 4, 2011
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That clever play on the famous Star Wars line “May the force be with you” was first used in popular culture when Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on May 4, 1979. Her party took out a newspaper ad that said “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.”

The Star Wars fan community embraced the date as an unofficial holiday, and as fans around the world connected via the Internet, events to celebrate Star Wars Day began.

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