About May 1
May 1, 2025 is the 121st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 244 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 292 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 1
- 1328 –Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
- 1707 –The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1751 –The first cricket match is played in America.
- 1778 –American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
- 1786 –Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
- 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.
- 1851 –Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
- 1852 –The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
- 1893 –The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- 1900 –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.
- 1901 –The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
- 1945 –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”.
- 1946 –Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
- 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.
- 1960 –Cold War: U-2 incident – Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
- 1965 –Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
- 1982 –Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
- 1989 –Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 2001 –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.
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