About May 1
May 1, 2024 is the 122nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 244 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 273 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 1
- 880 –The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
- 1576 –Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1759 –Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
- 1778 –American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
- 1786 –Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
- 1869 –The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
- 1875 –Alexandra Palace reopens after the 1873 fire burnt it down.
- 1884 –Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
- 1884 –Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
- 1893 –The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- 1933 –The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
- 1945 –The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste.
- 1946 –Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1960 –Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
- 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.
- 1987 –Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- 2011 –Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
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