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

  • 1328
    Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
  • 1778
    American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
  • 1851
    Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
  • 1852
    The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
  • 1862
    American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture of New Orleans.
  • 1863
    American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
  • 1884
    Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
  • 1894
    Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
  • 1930
    The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
  • 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”.
  • 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.
  • 1956
    A doctor in Japan reports an “epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system”, marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
  • 1957
    34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire England.
  • 1961
    The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
  • 1977
    36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
  • 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) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
  • 1995
    Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
  • 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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