About May 1
May 1, 2025 is the 121st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 244 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 292 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 1
- 305 –Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
- 1328 –Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
- 1707 –The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1776 –Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
- 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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture of New Orleans.
- 1884 –Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday 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.
- 1927 –The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
- 1945 –The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1987 –Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- 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.
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