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| May 1st, 2008 (May 01 2008) | Event | The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention. | |
| May 1st, 2008 (May 01 2008) | Death | Anthony Mamo, Malta s first President (born in 1909) | |
| May 1st, 2008 (May 01 2008) | Death | Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (born in 1956) | |
| May 1st, 2007 (May 01 2007) | Event | The Los Angeles May Day melee occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department s response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy. | Ang Lee Quotes |
| May 1st, 2006 (May 01 2006) | Event | The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow. | |
| May 1st, 2006 (May 01 2006) | Death | Big Hawk, American rapper (b.1969) | |
| May 1st, 2006 (May 01 2006) | Death | Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (born in 1940) | |
| May 1st, 2006 (May 01 2006) | Death | Rob Lacey, Christian Author. (born in 1962) | |
| May 1st, 2004 (May 01 2004) | Event | 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. | |
| May 1st, 2003 (May 01 2003) | Event | 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California. | George W. Bush Quotes |
| May 1st, 2003 (May 01 2003) | Death | Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (born in 1960) | |
| May 1st, 2000 (May 01 2000) | Event | 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. | |
| May 1st, 2000 (May 01 2000) | Death | Steve Reeves, American actor (born in 1926) | |
| May 1st, 1998 (May 01 1998) | Death | Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (born in 1935) | Eldridge Cleaver Quotes |
| May 1st, 1997 (May 01 1997) | Event | Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality. | |
| May 1st, 1997 (May 01 1997) | Birth | Ariel Gade, American actress | |
| May 1st, 1995 (May 01 1995) | Event | Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence. | |
| May 1st, 1994 (May 01 1994) | Death | Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver and three-time F1 world champion (born in 1960) | Ayrton Senna Quotes |
| May 1st, 1993 (May 01 1993) | Death | Pierre Beregovoy, French Prime Minister (born in 1925) | |
| May 1st, 1993 (May 01 1993) | Death | Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born in 1924) | |
| May 1st, 1992 (May 01 1992) | Event | On the third day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, African-American activist, criminal, and victim of police beating Rodney King appears in public before television news cameras to appeal for calm and plead for peace, asking, "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?". | |
| May 1st, 1991 (May 01 1991) | Event | Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter (breaking his own record). | |
| May 1st, 1991 (May 01 1991) | Birth | Creagen Dow, American actor | |
| May 1st, 1990 (May 01 1990) | Birth | Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress | |
| May 1st, 1990 (May 01 1990) | Death | Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor (born in 1926) | |
| May 1st, 1989 (May 01 1989) | Event | Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States. | Walt Disney Quotes |
| May 1st, 1989 (May 01 1989) | Death | Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (born in 1912) | |
| May 1st, 1989 (May 01 1989) | Death | Douglass Watson, American actor (born in 1921) | |
| May 1st, 1988 (May 01 1988) | Birth | Graeme Owens, English footballer | |
| May 1st, 1987 (May 01 1987) | Event | Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. | |
| May 1st, 1987 (May 01 1987) | Birth | Shahar Pe er, Israeli tennis player | |
| May 1st, 1987 (May 01 1987) | Birth | Matt Di Angelo, Actor | |
| May 1st, 1986 (May 01 1986) | Birth | Cristian Benitez, Ecuadorian footballer | |
| May 1st, 1986 (May 01 1986) | Birth | Adam Casey, Australian footballer | |
| May 1st, 1986 (May 01 1986) | Death | Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (born in 1905) | |
| May 1st, 1986 (May 01 1986) | Death | Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (born in 1916) | |
| May 1st, 1985 (May 01 1985) | Birth | Drew Sidora, American actress | |
| May 1st, 1984 (May 01 1984) | Birth | Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer | |
| May 1st, 1984 (May 01 1984) | Birth | Farah Fath, American actress | |
| May 1st, 1984 (May 01 1984) | Birth | Keiichiro Koyama, Japanese musician (NEWS) | |
| May 1st, 1983 (May 01 1983) | Event | Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. | |
| May 1st, 1983 (May 01 1983) | Birth | The Human Tornado (Craig Williams), American professional wrestler | |
| May 1st, 1982 (May 01 1982) | Event | The 1982 World s Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee. | |
| May 1st, 1982 (May 01 1982) | Event | Operation Black Buck begins. The RAF attack on the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War. | |
| May 1st, 1982 (May 01 1982) | Birth | Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player | |
| May 1st, 1982 (May 01 1982) | Death | William Primrose, Scottish violist (born in 1903) | |
| May 1st, 1981 (May 01 1981) | Birth | Aliaksandr Hleb, Belarusian footballer | |
| May 1st, 1981 (May 01 1981) | Birth | Derek Asamoah, Ghanaian Footballer | |
| May 1st, 1981 (May 01 1981) | Birth | Wes Welker, American football player | |
| May 1st, 1980 (May 01 1980) | Birth | Jan Heylen, Belgian racing driver | |
| May 1st, 1980 (May 01 1980) | Birth | Ana Claudia Talancon, Mexican actress | |
| May 1st, 1979 (May 01 1979) | Birth | Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player | |
| May 1st, 1979 (May 01 1979) | Birth | Ben Easter, American actor | |
| May 1st, 1979 (May 01 1979) | Birth | MC Harvey (Michael Harvey), British musical artist | |
| May 1st, 1978 (May 01 1978) | Event | Japan s Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone. | |
| May 1st, 1978 (May 01 1978) | Birth | Sachie Hara, Japanese actress | |
| May 1st, 1978 (May 01 1978) | Death | Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (born in 1903) | |
| May 1st, 1977 (May 01 1977) | Event | 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations. | |
| May 1st, 1977 (May 01 1977) | Birth | Vera Lischka, Austrian swimmer | |
| May 1st, 1977 (May 01 1977) | Birth | Dan Regan, American musician (Reel Big Fish) | |
| May 1st, 1976 (May 01 1976) | Birth | Darius McCrary, American actor | |
| May 1st, 1976 (May 01 1976) | Death | Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (born in 1939) | |
| May 1st, 1976 (May 01 1976) | Death | T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (born in 1908) | |
| May 1st, 1975 (May 01 1975) | Birth | Marc-Vivien Foe, Cameroonian footballer (died in 2003) | |
| May 1st, 1975 (May 01 1975) | Birth | Jodhi May, British actress | |
| May 1st, 1975 (May 01 1975) | Birth | Austin Croshere, American basketball player | |
| May 1st, 1975 (May 01 1975) | Birth | Alexei Smertin, Russian footballer | |
| May 1st, 1973 (May 01 1973) | Birth | Curtis Martin, American football player | |
| May 1st, 1973 (May 01 1973) | Birth | Oliver Neuville, German footballer | |
| May 1st, 1972 (May 01 1972) | Birth | Julie Benz, American actress | |
| May 1st, 1971 (May 01 1971) | Event | Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is formed to take over U.S. passenger rail service. | |
| May 1st, 1971 (May 01 1971) | Birth | Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor | |
| May 1st, 1970 (May 01 1970) | Event | 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. | |
| May 1st, 1970 (May 01 1970) | Death | Crown Prince Euimin, Crown Prince Korea (born in 1897) | |
| May 1st, 1969 (May 01 1969) | Birth | Wes Anderson, American director and writer | |
| May 1st, 1969 (May 01 1969) | Birth | Billy Owens, American basketball player | |
| May 1st, 1968 (May 01 1968) | Birth | Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer | |
| May 1st, 1968 (May 01 1968) | Birth | Sol Kyung-gu, South Korean actor | |
| May 1st, 1968 (May 01 1968) | Birth | D arcy Wretzky, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins) | |
| May 1st, 1968 (May 01 1968) | Death | Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician (born in 1886) | |
| May 1st, 1968 (May 01 1968) | Death | Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b.1895) | |
| May 1st, 1967 (May 01 1967) | Birth | Tim McGraw, American musician | |
| May 1st, 1966 (May 01 1966) | Birth | Olaf Thon, German football player | |
| May 1st, 1965 (May 01 1965) | Event | Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place. | |
| May 1st, 1965 (May 01 1965) | Death | Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (born in 1911) | |
| May 1st, 1964 (May 01 1964) | Birth | Yvonne van Gennip, Dutch speed skater | |
| May 1st, 1963 (May 01 1963) | Death | Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (born in 1879) | |
| May 1st, 1962 (May 01 1962) | Birth | Maia Morgenstern, Romanian actress | |
| May 1st, 1962 (May 01 1962) | Birth | Ted Sundquist, General Manager of the Denver Broncos | |
| May 1st, 1961 (May 01 1961) | Event | The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| May 1st, 1961 (May 01 1961) | Birth | Marilyn Milian, current judge on The People s Court | |
| May 1st, 1960 (May 01 1960) | Event | Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. | |
| May 1st, 1960 (May 01 1960) | Event | Cold War: U-2 Crisis - Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis. | |
| May 1st, 1960 (May 01 1960) | Birth | Steve Cauthen, American jockey | |
| May 1st, 1957 (May 01 1957) | Birth | Ko Otani, Japanese composer | |
| May 1st, 1956 (May 01 1956) | Event | The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public. | Jonas Salk Quotes |
| May 1st, 1956 (May 01 1956) | Event | A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease. | |
| May 1st, 1956 (May 01 1956) | Birth | Catherine Frot, French actress | |
| May 1st, 1955 (May 01 1955) | Birth | Nick Feldman, English musician | |
| May 1st, 1954 (May 01 1954) | Birth | Ray Parker Jr., American singer and songwriter | |
| May 1st, 1954 (May 01 1954) | Birth | Joel Rosenberg, science fiction author | |
| May 1st, 1953 (May 01 1953) | Birth | Glen Ballard, American songwriter and record producer | |
| May 1st, 1951 (May 01 1951) | Birth | Antony Worrall Thompson, English celebrity chef | |
| May 1st, 1950 (May 01 1950) | Event | Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth. | |
| May 1st, 1950 (May 01 1950) | Birth | Dann Florek, American actor | |
| May 1st, 1950 (May 01 1950) | Birth | Danny McGrain, Scottish footballer | |
| May 1st, 1949 (May 01 1949) | Birth | Tim Hodgkinson, English composer and musician (Henry Cow) | |
| May 1st, 1949 (May 01 1949) | Birth | Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers | |
| May 1st, 1948 (May 01 1948) | Event | The Democratic People s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as president. | |
| May 1st, 1947 (May 01 1947) | Birth | Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer | |
| May 1st, 1946 (May 01 1946) | Event | Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians. | |
| May 1st, 1946 (May 01 1946) | Event | The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy. | |
| May 1st, 1946 (May 01 1946) | Birth | Joanna Lumley, English actress | |
| May 1st, 1946 (May 01 1946) | Birth | John Woo, Hong Kong director | |
| May 1st, 1945 (May 01 1945) | Event | 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". | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| May 1st, 1945 (May 01 1945) | Birth | Rita Coolidge, American singer | |
| May 1st, 1945 (May 01 1945) | Death | Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide with his wife Magda Goebbels) (born in 1897) | Joseph Goebbels Quotes |
| May 1st, 1944 (May 01 1944) | Birth | Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician | |
| May 1st, 1943 (May 01 1943) | Death | Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith s Friends (b.1871) | |
| May 1st, 1941 (May 01 1941) | Event | World War II: German forces launch Operation Mercury the largest airborne invasion to date in their bid to capture Crete. | |
| May 1st, 1941 (May 01 1941) | Event | World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk. | |
| May 1st, 1940 (May 01 1940) | Event | The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war. | |
| May 1st, 1940 (May 01 1940) | Birth | Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer | |
| May 1st, 1939 (May 01 1939) | Birth | Judy Collins, American folk singer | |
| May 1st, 1939 (May 01 1939) | Birth | Max Robinson, American broadcast journalist (died in 1988) | |
| May 1st, 1937 (May 01 1937) | Birth | Una Stubbs, English actress | |
| May 1st, 1937 (May 01 1937) | Death | Snitz Edwards, American actor (born in 1868) | |
| May 1st, 1935 (May 01 1935) | Birth | Ann Robinson, American actress | |
| May 1st, 1935 (May 01 1935) | Death | Henri Pelissier, French cyclist (born in 1889) | |
| May 1st, 1934 (May 01 1934) | Birth | Joan Hackett, American actress (died in 1983) | |
| May 1st, 1934 (May 01 1934) | Birth | Shirley Horn, American jazz singer and pianist (died in 2005) | |
| May 1st, 1934 (May 01 1934) | Birth | Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, Mexican politician | |
| May 1st, 1931 (May 01 1931) | Event | The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City. | |
| May 1st, 1930 (May 01 1930) | Event | The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named. | |
| May 1st, 1930 (May 01 1930) | Birth | Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los Angeles | |
| May 1st, 1930 (May 01 1930) | Birth | Little Walter, American blues singer (died in 1995) | |
| May 1st, 1929 (May 01 1929) | Birth | Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician | |
| May 1st, 1929 (May 01 1929) | Birth | Sonny James, American country music singer and songwriter | |
| May 1st, 1928 (May 01 1928) | Birth | Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racer (died in 2002) | |
| May 1st, 1927 (May 01 1927) | Event | The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris. | |
| May 1st, 1927 (May 01 1927) | Event | The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor. | |
| May 1st, 1926 (May 01 1926) | Birth | Peter Lax, Hungarian Mathematician | |
| May 1st, 1925 (May 01 1925) | Event | The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially foundedied in Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members. | |
| May 1st, 1925 (May 01 1925) | Birth | Chuck Bednarik, American football player | Chuck D Quotes |
| May 1st, 1925 (May 01 1925) | Birth | Scott Carpenter, American astronaut | |
| May 1st, 1924 (May 01 1924) | Birth | Art Fleming, American game show host (died in 1995) | |
| May 1st, 1924 (May 01 1924) | Birth | Karel Kachyna, Czech film director (died in 2004) | |
| May 1st, 1924 (May 01 1924) | Birth | Terry Southern, American screenwriter (died in 1995) | |
| May 1st, 1923 (May 01 1923) | Birth | Joseph Heller, American novelist (died in 1999) | Joseph Heller Quotes |
| May 1st, 1919 (May 01 1919) | Birth | Lewis Hill, American pacifist and founder of Pacifica Radio (died in 1957) | |
| May 1st, 1919 (May 01 1919) | Birth | Dan O Herlihy, Irish film actor (died in 2005) | |
| May 1st, 1918 (May 01 1918) | Birth | Jack Paar, American television host (died in 2004) | |
| May 1st, 1918 (May 01 1918) | Birth | Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (died in 1977) | |
| May 1st, 1917 (May 01 1917) | Birth | John Beradino, American actor and baseball player (died in 1996) | |
| May 1st, 1917 (May 01 1917) | Birth | Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress | |
| May 1st, 1916 (May 01 1916) | Birth | Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (died in 2006) | |
| May 1st, 1915 (May 01 1915) | Event | The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second and final crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany. | |
| May 1st, 1915 (May 01 1915) | Birth | Archie Williams, American athlete (died in 1993) | |
| May 1st, 1913 (May 01 1913) | Birth | Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (died in 2005) | |
| May 1st, 1913 (May 01 1913) | Birth | Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (died in 1980) | |
| May 1st, 1913 (May 01 1913) | Death | John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (born in 1850) | John Armstrong Quotes |
| May 1st, 1912 (May 01 1912) | Birth | Otto Kretschmer, German U-Boat commander (died in 1998) | |
| May 1st, 1909 (May 01 1909) | Birth | Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize, 9 times candidate for the Nobel Prize (died in 1990) | |
| May 1st, 1908 (May 01 1908) | Birth | Giovanni Guareschi, Italian journalist (died in 1968) | |
| May 1st, 1907 (May 01 1907) | Birth | Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney (died in 2007) | |
| May 1st, 1907 (May 01 1907) | Birth | Kate Smith, American singer (died in 1986) | |
| May 1st, 1906 (May 01 1906) | Birth | Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (died in 1983) | |
| May 1st, 1905 (May 01 1905) | Birth | Henry Koster, German film director (died in 1988) | |
| May 1st, 1905 (May 01 1905) | Birth | Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (died in 1982) | |
| May 1st, 1904 (May 01 1904) | Death | Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (born in 1841) | Antonin Dvorak Quotes |
| May 1st, 1901 (May 01 1901) | Event | The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York. | |
| May 1st, 1901 (May 01 1901) | Birth | Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (died in 1985) | |
| May 1st, 1901 (May 01 1901) | Birth | Antal Szerb, Hungarian author and historian (died in 1945) | |
| May 1st, 1900 (May 01 1900) | Event | The Scofield mine disaster kills 200 in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history. | |
| May 1st, 1899 (May 01 1899) | Death | Ludwig Buchner, German philosopher and physician (born in 1824) | Philo Quotes |
| May 1st, 1898 (May 01 1898) | Event | Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Baythe United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war. | |
| May 1st, 1896 (May 01 1896) | Birth | Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (died in 1947) | |
| May 1st, 1896 (May 01 1896) | Birth | Mark Wayne Clark, American general (died in 1984) | |
| May 1st, 1896 (May 01 1896) | Birth | J. Lawton Collins, American general (died in 1987) | |
| May 1st, 1894 (May 01 1894) | Event | Coxey s Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C. | |
| May 1st, 1893 (May 01 1893) | Event | The World s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago. | |
| May 1st, 1887 (May 01 1887) | Birth | Alan Gordon Cunningham, British army officer (died in 1983) | |
| May 1st, 1886 (May 01 1886) | Event | The Haymarket riots in Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois are 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. | |
| May 1st, 1884 (May 01 1884) | Event | Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States. | |
| May 1st, 1884 (May 01 1884) | Birth | Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (died in 1964) | |
| May 1st, 1881 (May 01 1881) | Birth | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (died in 1955) | Philo Quotes |
| May 1st, 1873 (May 01 1873) | Death | David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (born in 1813) | |
| May 1st, 1872 (May 01 1872) | Birth | Sidonio Pais, Portuguese military and politician (died in 1918) | |
| May 1st, 1869 (May 01 1869) | Event | The Folies Bergere opens in Paris. | |
| May 1st, 1863 (May 01 1863) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins. | |
| May 1st, 1852 (May 01 1852) | Event | The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation. | |
| May 1st, 1852 (May 01 1852) | Birth | Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (died in 1903) | |
| May 1st, 1852 (May 01 1852) | Birth | Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (died in 1934) | |
| May 1st, 1851 (May 01 1851) | Event | The Great Exhibition opens in London by Queen Victoria. | |
| May 1st, 1851 (May 01 1851) | Birth | Laza Lazarevic, Serbian writer and psychiatrist (died in 1891) | |
| May 1st, 1850 (May 01 1850) | Birth | Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (died in 1942) | |
| May 1st, 1848 (May 01 1848) | Event | The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. | |
| May 1st, 1846 (May 01 1846) | Event | The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicated the Nauvoo Temple. | |
| May 1st, 1840 (May 01 1840) | Event | The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom. | |
| May 1st, 1834 (May 01 1834) | Event | The British colonies abolish slavery. | |
| May 1st, 1831 (May 01 1831) | Birth | Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (died in 1903) | |
| May 1st, 1829 (May 01 1829) | Birth | Jose de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (died in 1877) | |
| May 1st, 1813 (May 01 1813) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Bessieres, French marshal (killed in combat) (born in 1768) | |
| May 1st, 1804 (May 01 1804) | Birth | Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (died in 1860) | |
| May 1st, 1786 (May 01 1786) | Event | Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria. | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes |
| May 1st, 1785 (May 01 1785) | Event | Kamehameha, the king of Hawai?i defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawai?i. | |
| May 1st, 1778 (May 01 1778) | Event | American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. | |
| May 1st, 1776 (May 01 1776) | Event | Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt. | |
| May 1st, 1772 (May 01 1772) | Death | Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (born in 1719) | |
| May 1st, 1769 (May 01 1769) | Birth | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (died in 1852) | Duke Ellington Quotes |
| May 1st, 1753 (May 01 1753) | Event | Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. | |
| May 1st, 1751 (May 01 1751) | Event | The first cricket match is played in America. | |
| May 1st, 1738 (May 01 1738) | Birth | King Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (died in 1819) | |
| May 1st, 1738 (May 01 1738) | Death | Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (born in c. 1669) | |
| May 1st, 1731 (May 01 1731) | Death | Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (born in 1677) | |
| May 1st, 1707 (May 01 1707) | Event | The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. | |
| May 1st, 1672 (May 01 1672) | Birth | Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (died in 1719) | |
| May 1st, 1594 (May 01 1594) | Birth | John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate | |
| May 1st, 1582 (May 01 1582) | Birth | Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (died in 1643) | |
| May 1st, 1576 (May 01 1576) | Event | Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. | |
| May 1st, 1572 (May 01 1572) | Death | Pope Pius V (born in 1504) | |
| May 1st, 1555 (May 01 1555) | Death | Pope Marcellus II (born in 1501) | |
| May 1st, 1539 (May 01 1539) | Death | Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (born in 1503) | |
| May 1st, 1328 (May 01 1328) | Event | Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state. | |
| May 1st, 1308 (May 01 1308) | Death | Albert I of Habsburg (murdered) (born in 1255) | |
| May 1st, 1285 (May 01 1285) | Birth | Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (died in 1326) | |
| May 1st, 1240 (May 01 1240) | Death | Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals | |
| May 1st, 1218 (May 01 1218) | Birth | John I, Count of Hainaut (died in 1257) | |
| May 1st, 1218 (May 01 1218) | Birth | Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (died in 1291) | |
| May 1st, 1118 (May 01 1118) | Death | Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (born in c. 1080) | |
| May 1st, 0408 (May 01 0408) | Death | Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (born in 337/338) | |
| May 1st, 0305 (May 01 0305) | Event | Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. | |
