Events
305 -
Diocletian and
Maximian retire from the office of
Roman Emperor.1045 -
Gregory VI is appointed
Pope.1328 -
Wars of Scottish Independence end:
Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton –
England recognises
Scotland as an independent nation.1576 -
Stefan Batory, the reigning
Prince of Transylvania, marries
Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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.
1753 - Publication of Species Plantarum by
Linnaeus, and the formal start date of
plant taxonomy adopted by the
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
1776 - Establishment of the
Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by
Jesuit-taught
Adam Weishaupt.
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,
Italy.
1834 - The
British colonies abolish slavery.
1840 - The
Penny Black, the first official adhesive
postage stamp, was issued in the
United Kingdom.
1848 - The
Fraternity of
Phi Gamma Delta was founded at
Jefferson College in
Canonsburg,
Pennsylvania.
1851 - The
Great Exhibition opens in
London by
Queen Victoria.
1863 -
American Civil War: The
Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1869 - The
Folies Bergère opens in
Paris.
1884 - Proclamation of the demand for
eight-hour workday in the
United States.
1886 - 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
Labor Day in most industrialized countries.
1893 - The
World's Columbian Exposition opens in
Chicago.
1894 -
Coxey's Army, the first significant American
protest march, arrives in
Washington, D.C..
1898 -
Spanish-American War: The
Battle of Manila Bay - The
United States Navy destroys the
Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
1900 - The
Scofield mine disaster kills 200 in
Scofield, Utah in the now fifth-worst
mining accident in
United States history.
1901 - The
Pan-American Exposition opens in
Buffalo, New York.
1915 -
RMS Lusitania departs
New York City on her two hundred and second and final crossing of the
North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship was torpedoed off the coast of
Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing
American sentiment against
Germany.
1925 - The
All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest
trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
1927 - The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an
Imperial Airways flight from
London to
Paris.1927 - The
Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the
American Federation of Labor.
1930 - The dwarf planet
Pluto is officially named.
1931 - The
Empire State Building is dedicated in
New York City.
1940 - The
1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
1941 -
Orson Welles's
Citizen Kane premieres in
New York City.1941 -
World War II:
German forces launch
Operation Mercury the largest airborne invasion to date in their bid to capture
Crete.1941 -
World War II:
German forces launch a major attack on
Tobruk.
1945 -
Soviet troops raise the Soviet Flag over the
Reichstag, in
Berlin.1945 - 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.1946 - The Paris Peace Conference decided that the islands of the
Dodecanese are to return to
Greece by the Italians.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (
North Korea) is established, with
Kim Il-sung as president.
1950 -
Guam is organized as a
United States commonwealth.
1956 - The
polio vaccine developed by
Jonas Salk is made available to the public. 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 - Formation of western Indian state,
Maharashtra.
1960 -
Cold War:
U-2 Crisis –
Francis Gary Powers, in a
Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the
Soviet Union, sparking off a diplomatic crisis.
1961 - The Prime Minister of
Cuba,
Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1965 -
Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC.
1967 - Singer
Elvis Presley marries
Priscilla Beaulieu in
Las Vegas, Nevada.
1970 - Protests erupt in
Seattle, Washington, following the announcement of
President Richard Nixon that
U.S. Forces in
Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into
Cambodia, a neutral country.
1971 -
Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is formed to take over U.S. passenger rail service.
1978 -
Japan's
Naomi Uemura, travelling by
dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the
North Pole alone. 1978 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial
e-mail (which would later become known as "
spam") was sent by a
DEC marketing representative to every
ARPANET address on the west coast of the
United States.
1982 - The
1982 World's Fair opens in
Knoxville, Tennessee.1982 -
Baptism by fire of
Argentine Air Force during
Falklands War.
1983 - Greek composer
Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the
Lenin Peace Prize.
1987 -
Pope John Paul II beatifies
Edith Stein, a Jewish-born
Carmelite nun who was gassed in the
Nazi concentration camp at
Auschwitz.
1989 - The
coat of arms of Greenland is adopted.1989 -
Disney-MGM Studios opens at
Walt Disney World near
Orlando, Florida,
United States.
1991 -
Rickey Henderson would steal his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment would be overshadowed later that evening by
Nolan Ryan, who would pitch his seventh career
no-hitter (breaking his own record).
1992 - On the third day of the
1992 Los Angeles riots, African American criminal
Rodney King appeared 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?".
1994 - Last day of the standing
Spion Kop Grandstand for
Liverpool F.C., perhaps the most famous stand in English Football; Three time F1 Drivers' World Champion
Ayrton Senna was killed in an accident at the
San Marino Grand Prix.
1995 -
Croatian forces launch
Operation Flash during the
Croatian War of Independence1997 -
Tasmania becomes the last state in
Australia to decriminalize
homosexuality.
1997 -
Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister as the Labour Party wins the British General Election
2003 -
2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "
Mission Accomplished" speech,
President George W. Bush declares "major combat operations in
Iraq have ended" on board
USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of
California.
2004 -
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.
2006 - The
Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flows.
2007 -
The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurred, in which the
police response to a
May Day pro-immigration rally became a matter of controversy.
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