May 1

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May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). There are 244 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
1045 - Gregory VI appointed Pope.
1328 - Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – England recognises Scotland as an independent nation.
1707 - The Act of Union joins England, and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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.
1790 - The United States completes its first census.
1834 - The British colonies abolish slavery.
1851 - The Great Exhibition is opened in London by Queen Victoria.
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1869 - The Folies Bergères open in Paris.
1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States
1886 - The start of the general strike which eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the United States. These events are today commemorated as May Day or Labor Day in most industrialized countries.
1893 - The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington D.C..
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.
1900 - The Scofield mine disaster kills 200 in Scofield, Utah in the now fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
1901 - The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
1930 - The planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1940 - The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
1941 - Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premieres in New York City
1941 - World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il Sung as president.
1950 - Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1960 - Cold War: U-2 Crisis – Francis Gary Powers, in a U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking off a diplomatic crisis.
1971 - Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is formed to take over U.S. passenger rail service.
1978 - Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1978 - The first e-mail spam of history was sent by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1978 - May Day Bank Holiday introduced across England.
1982 - The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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.

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Births

1218 - John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)
1218 - Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)
1285 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)
1582 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (d. 1643)
1594 - John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
1672 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (d. 1719)
1804 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860)
1830 - Mother Jones, American labor activist (d. 1930)
1831 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1903)
1852 - Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)
1852 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1934)
1881 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (d. 1955)
1887 - Alan Gordon Cunningham, British army officer (d. 1983)
1896 - Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984)
1901 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985)
1901 - Antal Szerb, Hungarian author, literature historian (d. 1945)
1905 - Henry Koster, German film director (d. 1988)
1908 - Giovanni Guareschi, Italian journalist (d. 1968)
1909 - Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)
1913 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1913 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
1915 - Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
1916 - Glenn Ford, Canadian actor
1917 - John Beradino, American actor and baseball player (d. 1996)
1917 - Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress
1918 - Jack Paar, American television host (d. 2004)
1918 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977)
1919 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (d. 2005)
1923 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (d. 1999)
1924 - Art Fleming, American game show host (d. 1995)
1924 - Karel Kachyňa, Czech film director (d. 2004)
1925 - Chuck Bednarik, American football player
1925 - Scott Carpenter, American astronaut
1928 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (d. 2002)
1929 - Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician
1930 - Richard Riordan, Mayor of Los Angeles, California
1934 - Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
1935 - Ann Robinson, American actress
1939 - Judy Collins, American folk singer
1939 - Max Robinson, American broadcast journalist (d. 1988)
1940 - Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
1941 - Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)
1944 - Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
1945 - Rita Coolidge, American singer
1946 - Joanna Lumley, British actress
1946 - John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, writer, and actor
1950 - Dann Florek, American actor
1954 - Ray Parker Jr., American singer and songwriter
1960 - Steve Cauthen, American jockey
1962 - Maia Morgenstern, Romanian actress
1964 - Yvonne van Gennip, Dutch speed skater
1967 - Tim McGraw, American musician
1968 - Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
1968 - D'arcy Wretzky, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
1969 - Wes Anderson, American director, writer, and producer
1973 - Curtis Martin, American football player
1973 - Oliver Neuville, German footballer
1975 - Alexei Smertin, Russian footballer
1981 - Aleksander Hleb, Belarusian footballer
1988 - Ashton Parsons, American Musician
1990 - Caitlin Stasey, Australian Actress
1997 - Ariel Gade, American child actress