History Events on May 01

World War II: Yugoslav Partisans liberate Trieste.

#Yugoslav_Partisans

Norman mercenaries land at Bannow Bay in Leinster, marking the beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland.

#Normans

The Sydney Entertainment Centre is opened.

#Sydney_Entertainment_Centre

Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.

#Illuminati

Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

#Disney's_Hollywood_Studios

Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.

#Operation_Black_Buck

American Civil War: The Union Army completes its capture of New Orleans.

#American_Civil_War

Croatian War of Independence: Croatian forces launch Operation Flash.

#Croatian_War_of_Independence

Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.

#Pope_John_Paul_II

German troops enter Munich to squash the Bavarian Soviet Republic.

#Bavarian_Soviet_Republic

American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.

#American_Revolution

The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, 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.

#RMS_Lusitania

Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.

#Pope_John_Paul_II

World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani, Athens in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.

#1_May_1944_Kaisariani_executions

Cross-Strait relations: Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.

#Cross-Strait_relations

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".

#2003_invasion_of_Iraq

World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.

#Joseph_Goebbels

American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.

#Battle_of_Chancellorsville

Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.

#Elvis_Presley

The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.

#Folies_Bergère

War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.

#War_of_the_Pyrenees

In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.

#Vienna

Stephen Báthory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

#Stephen_Báthory

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.

#Coxey's_Army

Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.

#Amtrak

The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.

#George_Mallory

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.

#Cyprus

Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators, who plotted to kill the British Cabinet and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.

#Cato_Street_Conspiracy

Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.

#Cold_War

The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.

#Mormons

OpenOffice.org released version 1.0, the first stable version of the software.

#OpenOffice.org

Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.

#Queen_Victoria

Naxalite attack in Gadchiroli district: 16 army soldiers, including a driver, killed in an IED blast. Naxals targeted an anti-Naxal operations team.

#Naxalite

The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.

#Penny_Black

Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.

#Vietnam_War

"Pluto" is officially proposed by the for the name of the newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observtory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.

#Pluto

The Province of Isabela was created in the Philippines in honor of Queen Isabela II.

#Isabela_(province)

Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.

#Moses_Fleetwood_Walker

The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.

#Montoneros

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". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.

#Adolf_Hitler

The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour workday in the United States.

#Federation_of_Organized_Trades_and_Labor_Unions

Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.

#Haymarket_affair

Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.

#Wars_of_Scottish_Independence

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.

#All-China_Federation_of_Trade_Unions

Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.

#Josiah_Wedgwood

The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.

#Polio_vaccine

World War II: German forces launch a major attack during the siege of Tobruk.

#World_War_II

Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.

#Portella_della_Ginestra_massacre

The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.

#880

Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".

#Gujarat

The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.

#Cuba

The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.

#World's_Columbian_Exposition

The 7.2 Mw? Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran-Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.

#1929_Kopet_Dag_earthquake

The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.

#Empire_State_Building

The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.

#Empire_of_Brazil

Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.

#Alexandra_Palace

Spanish-American War: Battle of Manila Bay: The Asiatic Squadron of the United States Navy destroys the Pacific Squadron of the Spanish Navy after a seven-hour battle. Spain loses all seven of its ships, and 381 Spanish sailors die. There are no American vessel losses or combat deaths.

#Spanish-American_War

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.

#Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo

The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

#Memphis_riots_of_1866

Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident whilst leading the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.

#Formula_One

Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

#Carl_Linnaeus

Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.

#Hong_Kong_Police_Force

The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.

#Chicago_Board_of_Trade_Building

World War II: Forces of the Soviet Red Army liberate Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at Stalag Luft I near Barth, Germany.

#Red_Army

Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.

SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.

Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion.

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 in the Philippines.

Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.

Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.

Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.

A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.

The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.

Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.

World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.

The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.

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.

The Act of Union joining the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain takes effect.

Battle of Arkinholm, Royal forces end the Black Douglas hegemony in Scotland.

King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at Orléans after an 8-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Godomar.

Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.

Roman consul Publius Valerius Poplicola celebrates a Roman triumph for his victory over Veii and the Sabines.