About May 1
May 1, 2023 is the 121st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 244 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 285 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 1
- 1576 –Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1786 –Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
- 1846 –The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
- 1865 –The Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance
- 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.
- 1894 –Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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 –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 incident – Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
- 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.
- 1974 –The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expulsed from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
- 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.
- 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.
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