Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 1
This is a list of selected May 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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The Marriage of Figaro Overture
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Carol Ann Duffy -
Wreckage of Ayrton Senna's car
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Workers' Day; | refimprove |
| May Day | refimprove |
| Law Day and Loyalty Day in the United States | Law Day: refimprove; Loyalty Day: should not appear if International Workers' Day does not because it was created specifically in opposition to it |
| 1576 – Stephen Báthory and Anna Jagiellon were crowned as the elected rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. | Báthory: unreferenced section |
| 1707 – Under the terms of the Acts of Union, the Kingdoms of England and Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, a single kingdom encompassing the entire island of Great Britain with a single parliament and government based in Westminster. | unreferenced section |
| 1840 – The United Kingdom issued the Penny Black, the world's first official adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. | refimprove |
| 1851 – The Great Exhibition, the first world's fair, opened in London's Hyde Park. | unreferenced section |
| 1865 – Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina signed a treaty creating an alliance against Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance. | refimprove section |
| 1893 – The World's Columbian Exposition, a World's Fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World, opened in Chicago. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 1897 – The Ramakrishna Mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda to serve as the humanitarian counterpart to the Hindu monastic order Ramakrishna Math. | unreferenced section |
| 1898 – The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey defeated the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo at the Battle of Manila Bay, the first engagement of the Spanish–American War between Spain and the US. | refimprove |
| 1925 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union, was founded in Guangzhou, China. | unreferenced section |
| 1956 – A doctor in Japan reported an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease. | unreferenced section |
| 1960 – Bombay State in India was partitioned into Gujarat and Maharashtra along linguistic lines. | Gujarat: outdated, section needs to be rewritten |
| 1991 – In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters. | Ryan: refimprove section |
| 2001 – Rioters led by Miriam Defensor Santiago, Gregorio Honasan, Panfilo Lacson and Tito Sotto launched a siege against the Philippine presidential palace. | refimprove |
| 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner, U.S. President George W. Bush declared that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended". | refimprove section |
| 2009 – Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly bisexual person to hold the position, as well as the first laureate to be chosen in the 21st century. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 880 – The Nea Ekklesia church in Constantinople was consecrated, and went on to set the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
- 1169 – Norman mercenaries landed at Bannow Bay in Leinster, marking the beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland.
- 1776 – The secret society known as the Order of Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt and Adolph von Knigge in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
- 1786 – The Marriage of Figaro, an opera buffa composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
- 1885 – The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.
- 1900 – A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U.S., killed at least 200 miners.
- 1931 – New York City's Empire State Building, at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.
- 1941 – Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.
- 1947 – Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.
- 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- 1994 – Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, a three-time Formula One World Champion, was killed in a crash during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
- Born/died this day: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (b. 1769) · Ralph Stackpole (b. 1885) · Magda Goebbels (d. 1945)
Notes
- Woolworth Building appears on April 24, so Empire State Building should not appear in the same year
- Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) appears on April 28, so Chicago Board of Trade Building should not appear in the same year
May 1: Beltane in Ireland and Scotland
Moses Fleetwood Walker
- 1753 – Carl Linnaeus published his Species Plantarum, which, with his earlier work Systema Naturae, is considered the beginning of modern botanical nomenclature.
- 1794 – War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Second Battle of Boulou.
- 1884 – Moses Fleetwood Walker (pictured), the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the Toledo Blue Stockings.
- 1974 – Argentine President Juan Perón expelled the Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become clandestine and later a target of the Dirty War.
- 1985 – Labor groups in the Philippines established the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, a political coalition and communist front, in order to challenge the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
Honora Sneyd (d. 1780) · Anna Jarvis (b. 1864) · Ulric Cross (b. 1917)