WillDekkard
05-01-2010, 04:03 PM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 1st
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* 305 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.
* 1834 The British colonies abolish slavery.
* 1840 The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
* 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.
* 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 Bergθre 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.
* 1886 Rallies, that ended in the Haymarket affair, were held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day
* 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.
* 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.
* 1940 The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
* 1941 World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
* 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".
* 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 were 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.
* 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) is formed to take over U.S. passenger rail service.
* 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 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) was granted full autonomy and raised to the states 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.
* 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 mκlιe 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.
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- May 1st
c/p from Wikipedia
* 305 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.
* 1834 The British colonies abolish slavery.
* 1840 The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
* 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.
* 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 Bergθre 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.
* 1886 Rallies, that ended in the Haymarket affair, were held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day
* 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.
* 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.
* 1940 The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
* 1941 World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
* 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".
* 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 were 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.
* 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) is formed to take over U.S. passenger rail service.
* 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 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) was granted full autonomy and raised to the states 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.
* 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 mκlιe 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.
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