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
- 1707 –The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1776 –Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
- 1785 –Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaii, defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- 1794 –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.
- 1846 –The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
- 1851 –Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
- 1869 –The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
- 1925 –The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
- 1927 –The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
- 1941 –World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
- 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.
- 1950 –Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
- 1956 –A doctor in Japan reports an “epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system”, marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
- 1977 –36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
- 1978 –Japan’s Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
- 1983 –Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
- 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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