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May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (122nd in
leap years ). There are 244 days remaining.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
4.1 Liturgical Feast days
5 External links
Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor .
1045 - Gregory VI is appointed Pope .
1328 - Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – England recognises Scotland as an independent nation.
1576 - Stefan Batory , the reigning Prince of Transylvania , marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth .
1707 - The Act of Union joins England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain .
1751 - The first cricket match is played in America.
1753 - Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus , and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature .
1778 - American Revolution : The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania .
1786 - Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna .
1834 - The British colonies abolish slavery.
1851 - The Great Exhibition is opened in London by Queen Victoria .
1863 - American Civil War : The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1869 - The Folies Bergères open in Paris .
1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States
1886 - The start of the general strike which eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the United States . These events are today commemorated as May Day or Labor Day in most industrialized countries.
1893 - The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago .
1894 - Coxey's Army , the first significant American protest march , arrives in Washington D.C. .
1898 - Spanish-American War : The Battle of Manila Bay - The United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
1900 - The Scofield mine disaster kills 200 in Scofield, Utah in the now fifth-worst mining accident in United States history .
1901 - The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York .
1915 - RMS Lusitania departs New York City on her two hundred and second and final crossing of the North Atlantic . Six days later the ship was torpedoed off the Irish coast with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany .
1925 - The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
1927 - The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris .
1930 - The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City .
1940 - The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
1941 - Orson Welles 's Citizen Kane New York City
1941 - World War II : German forces launch Operation Mercury the largest airborne invasion to date in their bid to capture Crete .
1941 - World War II : German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk .
1945 - Soviet troops raise the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag , in Berlin
1946 - Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians .
1946 - The Paris Peace Conference desides that the islands of the Dodecanese are returned to Greece by the Italians.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ) is established, with Kim Il Sung as president.
1950 - Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth .
1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1956 - A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease
1960 - Cold War : U-2 Crisis – Francis Gary Powers , in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane , is shot down over the Soviet Union , sparking off a diplomatic crisis.
1965 - Battle of Dong-Yin , a naval conflict between ROC and PRC.
1970 - Protests erupt in Seattle, Washington , United States following the announcement of President Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia , a neutral country. [1]
1971 - Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is formed to take over U.S. passenger rail service.
1978 - Japan 's Naomi Uemura , travelling by dog sled , becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1978 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam ") was sent by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1978 - May Day Bank Holiday introduced across England.
1982 - The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee .
1983 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize .
1989 - The coat of arms of Greenland is adopted.
1989 - Disney-MGM studios opens in Orlando, Florida .
1992 - On the third day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots , African American criminal Rodney King appeared in public before television news cameras to appeal for calm and plead for peace, asking, "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?".
1994 - Last day of the standing Kop Grandstand for Liverpool F.C., perhaps the most famous stand in English Football.
2001 - Thomas Blanton Jr. became the second ex-Ku Klux Klansman to be convicted in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, that claimed the lives of four little girls .
2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq : In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished " speech, President George W. Bush declares "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on board USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California .
2004 - Cyprus , Czech Republic , Estonia , Hungary , Latvia , Lithuania , Malta , Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia join the European Union , celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2006 - The Puerto Rican government runs out of money, forcing the closure of schools and all other government agencies.
2007 - The Fall Of Troy release their epic album entitled "Manipulator"
Births 1218 - John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257 )
1218 - Rudolph I of Germany , Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291 )
1285 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel , English politician (d. 1326 )
1582 - Marco da Gagliano , Italian composer (d. 1643 )
1594 - John Haynes , Massachusetts colonial magistrate
1672 - Joseph Addison , English politician and writer (d. 1719 )
1804 - Aleksey Khomyakov , Russian poet (d. 1860 )
1830 - Mother Jones , American labor activist (d. 1930 )
1831 - Emily Stowe , Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1903 )
1852 - Calamity Jane , American Wild West performer (d. 1903 )
1852 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934 )
1872 - Sidónio Pais , Portuguese military and politician (d. 1918 )
1881 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , French palaeontologist and philosopher (d. 1955 )
1887 - Alan Gordon Cunningham , British army officer (d. 1983 )
1896 - Mark Wayne Clark , American general (d. 1984 )
1901 - Heinz Eric Roemheld , American film composer (d. 1985 )
1901 - Antal Szerb , Hungarian author and historian (d. 1945 )
1905 - Henry Koster , German film director (d. 1988 )
1907 - Oliver Hill , civil rights attorney
1908 - Giovanni Guareschi , Italian journalist (d. 1968 )
1909 - Kate Smith , American singer (d. 1986 )
1909 - Yiannis Ritsos , Greek poet, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize , 9 times candidate for the Nobel Prize (d. 1990 )
1913 - Louis Nye , American comedian and actor (d. 2005 )
1913 - Walter Susskind , Czech conductor (d. 1980 )
1915 - Archie Williams , American athlete (d. 1993 )
1916 - Glenn Ford , Canadian actor (d. 2006 )
1917 - John Beradino , American actor and baseball player (d. 1996 )
1917 - Danielle Darrieux , French singer and actress
1918 - Jack Paar , American television host (d. 2004 )
1918 - Gersh Budker , Russian physicist (d. 1977 )
1919 - Dan O'Herlihy , Irish film actor (d. 2005 )
1923 - Joseph Heller , American novelist (d. 1999 )
1924 - Art Fleming , American game show host (d. 1995 )
1924 - Karel Kachyňa , Czech film director (d. 2004 )
1924 - Terry Southern , American screenwriter (d. 1995 )
1925 - Chuck Bednarik , American football player
1925 - Scott Carpenter , American astronaut
1928 - Desmond Titterington , Northern Irish racer (d. 2002 )
1929 - Ralf Dahrendorf , German-born sociologist and politician
1930 - Richard Riordan , former mayor of Los Angeles
1934 - Joan Hackett , American actress (d. 1983 )
1935 - Ann Robinson , American actress
1937 - Una Stubbs , English actress
1939 - Judy Collins , American folk singer
1939 - Max Robinson , American broadcast journalist (d. 1988 )
1940 - Elsa Peretti , Italian jewelry designer
1944 - Suresh Kalmadi , Indian politician
1945 - Rita Coolidge , American singer
1946 - Joanna Lumley , British actress
1946 - John Woo , Hong Kong director
1950 - Dann Florek , American actor
1954 - Ray Parker Jr. , American singer and songwriter
1960 - Steve Cauthen , American jockey
1961 - Marilyn Milian , current judge on The People's Court 1962 - Maia Morgenstern , Romanian actress
1962 - Ted Sundquist , General Manager of the Denver Broncos
1964 - Yvonne van Gennip , Dutch speed skater
1967 - Tim McGraw , American musician
1968 - Oliver Bierhoff , German footballer
1968 - Sol Kyung-gu , South Korean actor
1968 - D'arcy Wretzky , American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins )
1969 - Wes Anderson , American director and writer
1970 - Gregg Groothuis , American professional wrestler
1971 - Ajith Kumar , Indian film actor
1973 - Curtis Martin , American football player
1973 - Oliver Neuville , German footballer
1975 - Alexei Smertin , Russian footballer
1975 - Jodhi May , British actress
1975 - Marc-Vivien Foé , Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003 )
1977 - Vera Lischka , Austrian swimmer
1981 - Aleksander Hleb , Belarusian footballer
1982 - Tommy Robredo , Spanish tennis player
1984 - Alexander Farnerud , Swedish footballer
1985 - Drew Sidora , American actress
1986 - Cristian Benítez , Ecuadorian footballer
1986 - Adam Casey , Australian footballer
1987 - Shahar Pe'er , Israeli tennis player
1990 - Caitlin Stasey , Australian actress
1997 - Ariel Gade , American actress
Deaths 408 - Arcadius , Roman emperor
1118 - Edith of Scotland , first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080 )
1308 - Albert I of Habsburg (murdered) (b. 1255 )
1555 - Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501 )
1572 - Pope Pius V (b. 1504 )
1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach , German composer (b. 1677 )
1738 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle , English statesman (b. c. 1669 )
1772 - Gottfried Achenwall , German statistician (b. 1719 )
1813 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières , French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768 )
1873 - David Livingstone , Scottish missionary (b. 1813 )
1899 - Ludwig Büchner , German philosopher and physician (b. 1824 )
1904 - Antonín Dvořák , Czech composer (b. 1841 )
1935 - Henri Pélissier , French cyclist (b. 1889 )
1937 - Snitz Edwards , American actor (b. 1868 )
1943 - Johan Oscar Smith , Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871 )
1945 - Joseph Goebbels , Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide) (b. 1897 )
1965 - Spike Jones , American band leader, musician, and comedian (b. 1911 )
1968 - Harold Nicolson , British diplomat, author and politician (b. 1886 )
1970 - Yi Un , Crown Prince Korea (b. 1897 )
1976 - Alexandros Panagoulis , Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (b. 1939 )
1976 - T.R.M. Howard , civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908 )
1978 - Aram Khachaturian , Armenian composer (b. 1903 )
1982 - William Primrose , Scottish violist (b. 1903 )
1989 - Sally Kirkland , fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912 )
1989 - Douglass Watson , American actor (b. 1921 )
1993 - Pierre Bérégovoy , French Prime Minister (suicide) (b. 1925 )
1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa , Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1924 )
1994 - Ayrton Senna , Brazilian three-time Formula One champion (b. 1960 )
1998 - Eldridge Cleaver , American activist (b. 1935 )
2000 - Steve Reeves , American actor (b. 1926 )
2003 - Miss Elizabeth , American wrestler (b. 1960 )
2006 - Big Hawk , American rapper (b.1969 )
Holidays and observances May Day , Labour Day , Workers' Day, Day of the International Solidarity of Workers.
Italy - national holiday (Giorno dei Lavoratori ).
Switzerland - official feast of Spring.
Czech Republic - "National Love Day" – couples tend to flock to the memorial of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha in Prague and kiss.
Lei Day - Hawaiian holiday for the Lei .
Beltane , Lá Bealtaine, the first day of Summer in modern Ireland was celebrated by the Celts , and is now also celebrated by Neopagans and Wiccans .
Northern Europe - Walpurgis Night .
Roman Empire - all-female festival in honour of Bona Dea .
Roman Empire - fourth and last day of the Floralia in honour of Flora .
United States - Law Day, U.S.A. , Loyalty Day .
Malta - L-Ewwel ta Mejju, Malta , Jum il-haddiem (Worker's Day) .
Maharashtra Divas (Maharashtra Day ) in the state of Maharastra , India . On May 1, 1960 , Maharashtra came into existence when Bombay State was split into the new linguistic states of Maharashtra and Gujarat .
Liturgical Feast days
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