May, 1st in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Saturday 01, 2004:
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union.

Thursday 01, 2003:
War in Iraq: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the end of major combat operations in Iraq.

Saturday 01, 1999:
Three spectators are killed at a IRL race at Lowe's Motor Speedway when a collision propells a tire into the stands.

Thursday 01, 1997:
HM Prison Pentridge, Melbourne, Australia is officially closed.

Sunday 01, 1994:
Formula One driver Ayrton Senna is killed during the San Marino Grand Prix.

Sunday 01, 1983:
Edwin El Chapo Rosario wins boxing's vacant WBC world Lightweight title by beating Jose Luis Ramirez in San Juan, by points in 12 rounds, becoming Puerto Rico's 14th world boxing champion. A young Julio Cesar Chavez also wins as part of the undercard.

Saturday 01, 1982:
The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Thursday 01, 1980:
Foundation of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.

Monday 01, 1978:
Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.

Monday 01, 1972:
Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – North Vietnamese troops capture Quang Tri City, effectively giving them control Quang Tri Province.

Saturday 01, 1971:
Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is formed to take over U.S. passenger rail service.

Monday 01, 1967:
Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu.

Sunday 01, 1960:
Cold War: U-2 Crisis – Francis Gary Powers, in a U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking off a crisis.

Tuesday 01, 1956:
The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.

Monday 01, 1950:
Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.

Saturday 01, 1948:
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il Sung as president.

Thursday 01, 1941:
Cheerios is introduced as CheeriOats by the General Mills cereal company.

Wednesday 01, 1940:
The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.

Friday 01, 1931:
The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.

Thursday 01, 1930:
The planet Pluto is officially named as such.

Wednesday 01, 1901:
The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.

Tuesday 01, 1900:
The Scofield mine disaster kills 200 in Scofield, Utah in the now fifth worst mining accident in United States history.

Sunday 01, 1898:
Sikasso falls to the French colonial army.

Saturday 01, 1897:
The Hindu monastic order Shri Ramakrishna Math and Mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda.

Tuesday 01, 1894:
Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington D.C..

Monday 01, 1893:
The World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago, Illinois.

Saturday 01, 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 Labour Day in most industrialized countries.

Thursday 01, 1884:
Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States

Tuesday 01, 1883:
Buffalo Bill Cody put on his first Wild West Show.

Thursday 01, 1873:
The 1873 Vienna World's Fair opens in Vienna.

Saturday 01, 1869:
The Folies Bergères open in Paris.

Friday 01, 1863:
American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins – Union forces under Major General Joseph Hooker begin to fight Confederate troops commanded by General Robert E. Lee (Union defeat).

Tuesday 01, 1860:
A chondrite-type meteorite falls to earth in Muskingum County, Ohio, near the town of New Concord.

Thursday 01, 1851:
The Great Exhibition opens in London.

Monday 01, 1848:
Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji), collegiate social fraternity, founded at Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College) in Canonsburg, PA

Friday 01, 1840:
The Penny Black postage stamp is put on sale in the United Kingdom.

Thursday 01, 1834:
The British colonies abolish slavery.

Saturday 01, 1790:
The United States completes its first census.

Monday 01, 1786:
Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna.

Wednesday 01, 1776:
Adam Weishaupt founds the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, Germany.

Tuesday 01, 1753:
Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

Sunday 01, 1707:
The Act of Union joins England, and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Friday 01, 1699:
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville founds the first European settlement in the Mississippi River Valley.

Saturday 01, 1328:
Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – England recognises Scotland as an independent nation.

Monday 01, 305:
Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/01-may/on-this-day.html


People born on May 01

1973:
Curtis Martin, American football player (b: May 1, 1973) (Biography of Curtis Martin)
Oliver Neuville, German footballer (b: May 1, 1973) (Biography of Oliver Neuville)

1968:
Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer (b: May 1, 1968) (Biography of Oliver Bierhoff)
D'arcy, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins) (b: May 1, 1968) (Biography of D'arcy)

1967:
Tim McGraw, American musician (b: May 1, 1967) (Biography of Tim McGraw)

1964:
Yvonne van Gennip, Dutch speed skater (b: May 1, 1964) (Biography of Yvonne van Gennip)

1962:
Maia Morgenstern, Romanian actress (b: May 1, 1962) (Biography of Maia Morgenstern)

1960:
Steve Cauthen, American jockey (b: May 1, 1960) (Biography of Steve Cauthen)

1954:
Ray Parker Jr., American singer and songwriter (b: May 1, 1954) (Biography of Ray Parker Jr.)

1950:
Dann Florek, American actor (b: May 1, 1950) (Biography of Dann Florek)

1946:
John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, writer, and actor (b: May 1, 1946) (Biography of John Woo)
Joanna Lumley, British actress (b: May 1, 1946) (Biography of Joanna Lumley)

1944:
Rita Coolidge, American singer (b: May 1, 1944) (Biography of Rita Coolidge)
Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician (b: May 1, 1944) (Biography of Suresh Kalmadi)

1941:
Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals) (b: May 1, 1941) (Biography of Eric Burdon)

1940:
Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer (b: May 1, 1940) (Biography of Elsa Peretti)

1939:
Judy Collins, American folk singer (b: May 1, 1939) (Biography of Judy Collins)
Max Robinson, American broadcast journalist (b: May 1, 1939) (Biography of Max Robinson)

1935:
Ann Robinson, American actress (b: May 1, 1935) (Biography of Ann Robinson)

1934:
Joan Hackett, American actress (b: May 1, 1934 ; d: October 8, 1983) (Biography of Joan Hackett)

1930:
Richard Riordan, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b: May 1, 1930) (Biography of Richard Riordan)

1929:
Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician (b: May 1, 1929) (Biography of Ralf Dahrendorf)

1925:
Chuck Bednarik, American football player (b: May 1, 1925) (Biography of Chuck Bednarik)
Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (b: May 1, 1925) (Biography of Scott Carpenter)

1924:
Art Fleming, American game show host (b: May 1, 1924) (Biography of Art Fleming)

1923:
Joseph Heller, American novelist (b: May 1, 1923 ; d: December 12, 1999) (Biography of Joseph Heller)

1919:
Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (b: May 1, 1919 ; d: February 17, 2005) (Biography of Dan O'Herlihy)

1918:
Jack Paar, American television host (b: May 1, 1918 ; d: January 27, 2004) (Biography of Jack Paar)

1917:
John Beradino, American actor and baseball player (b: May 1, 1917) (Biography of John Beradino)

1916:
Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b: May 1, 1916) (Biography of Glenn Ford)

1915:
Archie Williams, American athlete (b: May 1, 1915 ; d: June 24, 1993) (Biography of Archie Williams)

1913:
Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b: May 1, 1913 ; d: March 25, 1980) (Biography of Walter Susskind)

1909:
Kate Smith, American singer (b: May 1, 1909 ; d: June 17, 1986) (Biography of Kate Smith)

1908:
Giovanni Guareschi, Italian journalist (b: May 1, 1908) (Biography of Giovanni Guareschi)

1905:
Henry Koster, German film director (b: May 1, 1905) (Biography of Henry Koster)

1901:
Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (b: May 1, 1901 ; d: February 11, 1985) (Biography of Heinz Eric Roemheld)

1896:
Mark Clark, American general (b: May 1, 1896) (Biography of Mark Clark)

1887:
Alan Gordon Cunningham, British army officer (b: May 1, 1887) (Biography of Alan Gordon Cunningham)

1881:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (b: May 1, 1881) (Biography of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)

1852:
Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (b: May 1, 1852) (Biography of Calamity Jane)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b: May 1, 1852) (Biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal)

1831:
Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1903) (b: May 1, 1831 ; d: April 30, 1903) (Biography of Emily Stowe)

1830:
Mother Jones, American labor activist (b: May 1, 1830) (Biography of Mother Jones)

1672:
Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b: May 1, 1672 ; d: June 17, 1719) (Biography of Joseph Addison)

1594:
John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b: May 1, 1594) (Biography of John Haynes)

1582:
Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b: May 1, 1582 ; d: February 25, 1643) (Biography of Marco da Gagliano)

1218:
Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b: May 1, 1218 ; d: July 15, 1291) (Biography of Rudolph I of Germany)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/01-may/births.html

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People who died on May 01

2003:
Miss Elizabeth (d: May 1, 2003) (Biography of Miss Elizabeth)

2000:
Steve Reeves, American actor (b: January 21, 1926 ; d: May 1, 2000) (Biography of Steve Reeves)

1998:
Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (b: August 31, 1935 ; d: May 1, 1998) (Biography of Eldridge Cleaver)

1994:
Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b: March 21, 1960 ; d: May 1, 1994) (Biography of Ayrton Senna)

1993:
Pierre Bérégovoy (d: May 1, 1993) (Biography of Pierre Bérégovoy)
Ranasinghe Premadasa (d: May 1, 1993) (Biography of Ranasinghe Premadasa)

1989:
Douglass Watson, American actor (b: February 24, 1921 ; d: May 1, 1989) (Biography of Douglass Watson)

1982:
William Primrose, Scottish violist (b: August 23, 1903 ; d: May 1, 1982) (Biography of William Primrose)

1978:
Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b: June 6, 1903 ; d: May 1, 1978) (Biography of Aram Khachaturian)

1970:
Crown Prince Eun of Korea (b: October 20, 1897 ; d: May 1, 1970) (Biography of Yi Un)

1965:
Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (b: December 14, 1911 ; d: May 1, 1965) (Biography of Spike Jones)

1945:
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (b: October 29, 1897 ; d: May 1, 1945) (Biography of Joseph Goebbels)

1904:
Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (b: September 8, 1841 ; d: May 1, 1904) (Biography of Antonin Dvorak)

1873:
David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (b: March 19, 1813 ; d: May 1, 1873) (Biography of David Livingstone)

1813:
Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (b: August 6, 1768 ; d: May 1, 1813) (Biography of Jean-Baptiste Bessières)

1738:
Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (d: May 1, 1738) (Biography of Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle)

1731:
Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b: February 4, 1677 ; d: May 1, 1731) (Biography of Johann Ludwig Bach)

1572:
Pope Pius V (b: January 17, 1504 ; d: May 1, 1572) (Biography of Pope Pius V)

1308:
Albert I of Habsburg (d: May 1, 1308) (Biography of Albert I of Habsburg)

408:
Arcadius (d: May 1, 408) (Biography of Arcadius)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/01-may/deaths.html