May
1
International
Labour Day
International
Workers' Day (also known as May Day) is a celebration of the
international labour movement and left-wing movements. It commonly
sees organized street demonstrations and marches by working
people and their labour unions throughout most of the world.
May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. It is
also celebrated unofficially in many other countries.
Maharashtra
Din (Diwas)
May
1
Events
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– Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting
the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
1328 – Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton
– the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland
as an independent state.
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 the Kingdom of England and Kingdom
of 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.
1759 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in
Great Britain.
1776 – Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper
Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
1778 – American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins
in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
1785 – Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaiʻi, defeats Kalanikupule
and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
1786 – Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
1794 – War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which
French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land
they lost to Spain in 1793.
1840 – The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage
stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1844 – Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police
force and Asia's first, is established.
1846 – The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally
dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
1851 – Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
1852 – The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
1862 – American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture
of New Orleans.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1865 – The Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay sign the
Treaty of the Triple Alliance
1869 – The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
1875 – Alexandra Palace reopens after the 1873 fire burnt it
down.
1884 – Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in
the United States.
1884 – Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first black person
to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
1885 – The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for
business.
1886 – Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding
the eight-hour work day culminating in the Haymarket Affair.
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 over 200 men in Scofield,
Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United
States history.
1901 – The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
1915 – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two
hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic.
Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland
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.
1925 – The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held
at the University of Toronto, Canada.
1927 – The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced
on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
1927 – The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by
the American Federation of Labor.
1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1933 – The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great
Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter
Runciman.
1940 – The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
1941 – World War II: German forces launch a major attack on
Tobruk.
1944 – 200 Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani
in Athens as reprisals for the killing of General Franz Krech
by partisans at Molaoi
1945 – World War II: A German newsreader officially announces
that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the
Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism
and for Germany". The Soviet flag was raised over the Reich
Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
1945 – World War II: Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit
suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their
children are murdered by Magda by having cyanide pills inserted
into their mouths.
1945 – The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste.
1946 – Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
1946 – The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands
of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
1947 – Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations
in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano;
11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
1948 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
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.
1957 – 34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking
airliner crashed in Hampshire England.
1960 – Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and
Maharashtra.
1960 – Cold War: U-2 incident – Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed
U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a
diplomatic crisis.
1961 – The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba
a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1965 – Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and
PRC, takes place.
1970 – Protests erupt in Seattle, Washington, following the
announcement by U.S. President Richard Nixon that U.S. Forces
in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral
country.
1971 – Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
1974 – The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expulsed
from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
1977 – 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during
the Labour Day celebrations.
1978 – Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes
the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1982 – The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1982 – French Canadian Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve
is killed during practice in the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at
Zolder.
1982 – Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the
Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
1983 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin
Peace Prize.
1987 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born
Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp
at Auschwitz.
1989 – Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando,
Florida, United States.
1990 – The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by
the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted
full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican
Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
1991 – Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his
939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category.
However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening
by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh
career no-hitter, breaking his own record.
1994 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is
killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
1995 – Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian
War of Independence.
1999 – Body of British climber George Mallory found on Mount
Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
2001 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares
the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after
thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph
Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height
of the EDSA III rebellion.
2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission
Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln
(off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush
declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
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 closes the Department of
Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant
shortages in cash flow.
2007 – The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los
Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration
rally become a matter of controversy.
2008 – The London Agreement on translation of European patents,
concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting
States to the European Patent Convention.
2009 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2011 – Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope
Benedict XVI.
2011 – Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the suspected
mastermind behind the September 11 attacks is killed by United
States special forces in Islamabad, Pakistan. Due to the time
difference between the United States and Pakistan, Osama bin
Laden was killed on May 2 in Pakistan.
Holidays
and observances
Beginning
of Summer observances (see April 30):
Beltane (Gaelic folklore, Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
Walpurgis Night, celebrated before dawn (Central and Northern
Europe)
Christian Feast Day:
Augustin Schoeffer
Andeolus
Brioc
James the Less
Memorial of Saint Joseph the Worker (Roman Catholic optional
feast)
Philip the Apostle
Sigismund of Burgundy
Walpurga (canonization)
May 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Marshall Islands)
Commemoration of the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat following
the foundation of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti (India):
Gujarat Day
Maharashtra Day
Earliest day on which National Day of Prayer can fall, while
May 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Thursday in May.
(United States)
Festival in honor of Bona Dea (Roman Empire)
International Workers' Day (International), and its related
observances:
EuroMayDay (Western Europe)
Labour Day
Law Day, U.S.A., formerly intended to counterbalance the celebration
of Labor Day. (United States)
Loyalty Day, formerly intended to counterbalance the celebration
of Labor Day. (United States)
May Day, a term also used for the beginning of summer celebration.
Lei Day (Hawaii)
International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day
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