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May 1 Zodiac, Events, Birthdays and Holidays

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 1. From 1900 until now. May 1 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Jamie Dornan (1982), Ajith Kumar (1971) and Zaz (singer) (1980). Several movies were released around May 1 over the years, such as Fatal Attraction in 2023 directed by Adrian Lyne and Silo in 2023 directed by Marshall Burnette.
But much more happened on May 1 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Saint James the Less.
Saint Sigismund of Burgundy.
Saint Florine
Saint Augustin Schoeffer
Saint Theodulf.
Saint Andeol.
Festival of Matsu in Taiwan and various locales along the southern coast of China (2005).
Malta - L-Ewwel ta Mejju, Malta, Jum il-haddiem (Worker's Day).
United States - Law Day, U.S.A., Loyalty Day.
Roman Empire - fourth and last day of the Floralia in honour of Flora.
Roman Empire - all-female festival in honour of Bona Dea.
Saint Joseph the Worker (also known as Saint Joseph's Day).
Maharashtra Divas (Maharashtra Day) in the state of Maharastra, India. On May 1, 1960, Maharashtra came into existence when Bombay State was split into the new linguistic states of Maharashtra and Gujarat.
May crowning - Unofficial ritual ceremony usually happening in the Roman Catholic Church.
Lei Day - Hawaiian holiday for the Lei.
Saint Jeremiah.
May Day, Labour Day, Workers' Day, Day of the International Solidarity of Workers.
Italy - national holiday (Giorno dei Lavoratori).
Switzerland - official feast of Spring.
Saint Philip the Apostle.
Saint Brieuc.
Saint Evermaar of Rutten (died 700)
Northern Europe - Walpurgis Night.
Czech Republic - "National Love Day" ? couples tend to flock to the memorial of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha in Prague and kiss.
Beltane, Lá Bealtaine, the first day of Summer in modern Ireland was celebrated by the Celts, and is now also celebrated by Neopagans and Wiccans.
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Events

2019 Naxalite Maoist insurgency. Sixteen soldiers, including one driver, were killed in a landmine blast in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India. Officials believe that the insurgents of Maoists are responsible.
2018 Human rights violations during Syria Civil War: ISIL releases a video of an execution showing a prisoner being executed by explosives at Yarmouk Camp in Damascus.
2017 Raoul Hedebouw, a representative of Workers' Party Belgium, is stabbed in his thigh just moments before he delivers a speech in Liege (Belgium). The suspect is taken into custody.
2016 Turkey-ISIL conflict and Spillover of Syria Civil War: 2016 Gaziantep Bombing: One officer was killed and thirteen others were injured when a bomb exploded at a Gaziantep police station. Attacks are being suspected by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (BBC)
2015 Mexican Drug War: Three Mexican Army soldiers are killed in gunfire that downed a helicopter in Jalisco. Two Federal Police officers and ten soldiers are also injured. (AP via ABC News America). Guerrero's PRI/PVEM mayoral nominee in Chilapa de Alvarez is assassinated.
2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest Ukraine:: Prorussian militants seize regional prosecutor's offices in Donetsk, an eastern Ukrainian city. (BBC). Ukraine announces it will reintroduce conscription.
2013 South Thailand insurgency - Six people are killed by insurgents, including a 2-year-old boy in a shooting attack in Pattani (Thailand).
2012 Syrian uprising: Both government and opposition forces are accused of violating the ceasefire, according to the United Nations.
2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified.
2010 As a result of a car bomb being discovered, a portion of Times Square in New York City is sealed off and evacuated.
2009 Sweden has legalized same-sex marriage.
2008 A US navy ship is off Somalia's coast and launches a missile attack against Aden Hashi Ayro's home in Dusamareb. It kills him along with at least ten others. Ayro was the military leader of al-Shabab and held most of Somalia under his control.
2007 The Los Angeles May Day melee takes place, and the Los Angeles Police Department's response is controversial to a May Day pro immigrant rally.
2006 As protesters demonstrate for their rights to immigration, the Great American Boycott is held across the United States.
2005 The largest Chinese computer company, Lenovo Group, acquires IBM's personal computer business for US$ 1.25 Billion in cash and assumes 500 million of IBM’s debt.
2004 The European Union is now open to the Czech Republic, Estonia and Hungary. It was celebrated in Dublin at the residence the Irish President.
2003 2003 invasion of Iraq. In what is now known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S. President George W. Bush announces that all major combat operations in Iraq are over.
2001 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal - Arroyo declares the existence ''a state rebellion'' hours after thousands of supporters of Joseph Estrada were arrested and stormed towards the presidential palace during the height of the EDSA III revolt.
2000 A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or man-made material.ref name=compref name=UCSD-press-release{{cite web|author=McDonald, Kim|title= UCSD Physicists Develop a New Class of Composite Material with 'Reverse' Physical Properties Never Before Seen
1999 Three spectators were killed and eight others were injured at Lowe's Motor Speedway during an IRL race when a tire went into the grandstand.
1997 Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of the UK
1996 Ideal Husband opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 308 performances
1995 On the Waterfront opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
1994 My Fair Lady closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan President
1992 LA Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
1991 Will Rogers Follies opens at Palace Theater NYC for 983 performances
1990 Prelude to a Kiss opens at Helen Hayes Theater, New York City
1989 The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park at Walt Disney World opens to the public. It covers 135 acres. Total construction costs were over US$500 million. Advertising and promotions for the opening cost US$30 million. Entrance prices are US$29 for adults, and US$23 for children aged 3-9.
1988 Romance / Romance opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 performances
1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1986 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph.
1985 US President Ronald Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua.
1984 Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
1983 My One & Only opens at St. James Theater NYC for 767 performances
1982 Nordiques 4 - Isles 5 (OT) - Semifinals - Isles hold 3-0 lead
1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
1980 Day in Hollywood, A Night... opens at John Golden NYC for 588 performances
1979 Marshall Islands (in the Pacific) become self-governing.
1978 1st black Mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1977 Empress Lilly dedicated
1976 Jos Hermens on the Netherlands sets record for 20,000 metre, 57:24.2.
1975 Islander Parise and Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4 - Semifinals - Flyers hold 2-0 lead
1973 San Francisco Giants score seven runs with two outs in 9th inning to beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-7.
1972 Different Times opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances
1971 Amtrak Railroad begins operation
1970 Protests erupt in Seattle, Washington, following the announcement by U.S. President Richard Nixon that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral country.
1969 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1968 Ben Franklin in Paris closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 performances
1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes President of the Netherlands Bank
1966 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia.
1965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
1964 1st BASIC program runs on a computer
1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands.
1962 JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1960 Russia shoots down American pilot Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.
1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon / conquer Morotai
1957 Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
1956 The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1955 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament.
1954 WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC / SFN) begins broadcasting
1952 Mr Potato Head, introduced
1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize
1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (second satellite of Neptune).
1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
1947 Radar for commercial and private planes first demonstrated.
1946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year".
1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII
1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin
1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star".
1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios cereal.
1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled.
1939 Batman comics hit street
1937 FDR signs act of neutrality
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades.
1935 Boulder Dam is completed.
1934 Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
1933 The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
1931 Empire State Building opens in New York City
1930 Bradman scores 236 Aust vs. Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng
1929 Farm workers' strike begins in East-Groningen.
1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals
1926 Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony.
1923 Rahula College is established in Ceylon with the name of quotParakramabhahu Vidyalayaquot.
1922 Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game.
1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected Governor of Suwayda.
1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens.
1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages.
1918 German troops enter Don province they take Rostov May 6.
1915 British Lusitania leaves New York, for Liverpool.
1913 Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th Steet New York City, New York.
1912 Beverly Hills Hotel opens.
1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium.
1907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Netherlands-Indies).
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Famous Birthday

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Music charts

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Top #1 songs in the USA

2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
2015 Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again
2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
2013 P!nk - Just Give Me A Reason
2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
2011 Rihanna - S&M
2010 B.o.B. - Nothin' On You
2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
2008 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
2007 Timbaland - Give It To Me
2006 Daniel Powter - Bad Day
2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
2004 Usher - Yeah!
2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
2002 Ashanti - Foolish
2001 Janet - All For You
2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
1999 TLC - No Scrubs
1998 Next - Too Close
1997 Puff Daddy - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
1996 Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
1994 R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind
1993 Silk - Freak Me
1992 Kris Kross - Jump
1991 Amy Grant - Baby Baby
1990 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
1989 Madonna - Like A Prayer
1988 Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go
1987 Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
1986 Prince - Kiss
1985 USA for Africa - We Are The World
1984 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
1983 Michael Jackson - Beat It
1982 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll
1981 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Kiss On My List
1980 Blondie - Call Me
1979 Blondie - Heart Of Glass
1978 Bee Gees - Night Fever
1977 Glen Campbell - Southern Nights
1976 Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
1975 B.J. Thomas - (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
1974 MFSB - TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)
1973 Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
1970 The Jackson 5 - ABC
1969 The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
1968 Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
1967 Nancy Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
1966 Young Rascals - Good Lovin'
1965 Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
1964 The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
1963 Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
1962 Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm
1961 Del Shannon - Runaway
1960 Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
1959 The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
1958 The Platters - Twilight Time
1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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