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
- 1576 –Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1753 –Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
- 1786 –Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
- 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, Asia’s first modern police force is established.
- 1851 –Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1933 –The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
- 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.
- 1957 –34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire England.
- 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.
- 1965 –Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
- 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.
- 1978 –Japan’s Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
- 1987 –Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- 2009 –Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
- 2011 –Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
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