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.
- 1759 –Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
- 1778 –American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
- 1844 –Hong Kong Police Force, the world’s second, Asia’s first modern police force is established.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
- 1865 –The Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance
- 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.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay – the United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
- 1915 –The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
- 1927 –The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
- 1927 –The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
- 1933 –The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
- 1940 –The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
- 1948 –The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
- 1956 –A doctor in Japan reports an “epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system”, marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
- 1982 –The 1982 World’s Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
- 1991 –Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own record.
- 1995 –Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
- 2003 –2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the “Mission Accomplished” speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended”.
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