Historical Events on May 1 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 358 of 358

• 1962 1st French underground nuclear test in the Sahara at Ecker, Algeria

• 1963 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
• 1963 First one-day cricket competition is played (Gillette Cup); Lancashire beats Leicestershire by 101 at Old Trafford

• 1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
• 1964 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)

• 1965 Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
• 1965 Stanley Cup, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Dick Duff has a goal and 2 assists as Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4-0 in Game 7 to take title 4-3
• 1965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
• 1966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
• 1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
• 1966 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia

• 1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
• 1967 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
• 1968 "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 performances
• 1969 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC

• 1969 Houston Astros hurler Don Wilson blanks Reds, 4-0 for second career no-hitter, at Crosley Field in Cincinnati

• 1969 Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for a professional sports record $16.15m
• 1969 Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting

• 1971 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Ávila wins aboard Canonero II (wins Preakness May 15)
• 1971 Amtrak Railroad begins operation
• 1971 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
• 1972 "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances
• 1972 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
• 1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner for his novel Angle of Repose
• 1972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres

• 1976 Empress Lilly, replica of a paddle steamer, dedicated at Walt Disney World, Florida
• 1977 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
• 1977 American golfer Debbie Austin wins the Birmingham Classic, the first of 5 LPGA Tour victories in a 4-month span
• 1977 American golfer Gene Littler wins the Houston Open, his 29th and final PGA title
• 1977 French runner Chantal Langlacé sets female world marathon record (2:35:15.4) in Oyarzun, Spain
• 1978 1st African American mayor of New Orleans, Ernest Nathan Morial, inaugurated

• 1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone

• 1979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
• 1979 Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
• 1980 "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden NYC for 588 performances

• 1980 Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
• 1981 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
• 1981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3

• 1982 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye wins aboard Gato Del Sol, the first of consecutive Derby victories (1983 Sunny's Halo)
• 1982 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens
• 1983 "My One & Only" opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances

• 1984 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1984 NFL Draft: Nebraska wide receiver Irving Fryar first pick by New England Patriots
• 1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels

• 1985 William Hoffman's "As Is" premieres in NYC

• 1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole

• 1988 "Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 performances

• 1988 Two IRA attacks in and near Roermond, Netherlands, kills 3 British servicemen and wounds 3 more
• 1989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio theme park officially opens to public in Lake Buena Vista, Florida
• 1989 American jockey Chris Antley's record 64-day consecutive winning streak ends when he fails with 5 mounts at Aqueduct, NY; streak includes 147 winners from 486 mounts
• 1989 Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins: US Supreme Court rules employers have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting
• 1990 "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
• 1991 "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 983 performances

• 1991 Angolan civil war ends
• 1991 Cy Coleman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green' s musical "Will Rogers Follies" premieres at The Palace Theater, NYC; runs for 981 performances
• 1991 Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & hetrosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC

• 1991 West Indian batsman Gordon Greenidge plays his last Test cricket innings, scoring 43 vs Australia in Antigua; 7,558 runs @ 44.72; 19 x 100s
• 1992 Danielle Steel’s historical romance novel “Jewels” is published
• 1992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior

• 1992 Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th MLB career base in A's 7-6 win at Detroit
• 1993 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey wins aboard Sea Hero, the first of 2 Derby victories (1996 on Grindstone)
• 1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
• 1993 Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa is assassinated along with 17 others by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber in Colombo
• 1994 "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
• 1994 -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
• 1994 Charles Kuralt, American broadcast journalist (On the Road) retires from CBS
• 1994 Jim Cartwright's play "The Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon Theater, NYC; runs for 9 performances

• 1995 "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
• 1995 "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" single released by John Michael Montgomery (Billboard Song of the Year 1995)

• 1995 Future Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh scores career best 200 including 231 partnership with brother Mark (126) in 4th Test win over West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica
• 1995 Montreal Canadiens lose 2-0 at Buffalo to miss Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 25 years
• 1996 "Ideal Husband" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 308 performances
• 1996 Miami Heat beaten, 112-91 to Chicago Bulls to be swept 3-0 in round 1 of NBA Eastern Division playoffs; first time in his 14 years as head coach Pat Riley ousted in the opening round
• 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
• 1997 Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality

• 1999 125th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley wins aboard Charismatic for his second Derby victory (1991 on Strike The Gold)

• 2002 Padres closer Trevor Hoffman sets MLB record for saves for one team (321) in 4-3 win v Chicago Cubs in San Diego

• 2004 130th Kentucky Derby: Stewart Elliott wins aboard Smarty Jones. North American wagering records smashed ($142m on 12-race card)
• 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.
• 2004 Giants outfielder Barry Bonds sets MLB record for being intentionally walked 4 times in a 9-inning game during 6-3 defeat of Florida in SF

• 2006 The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.

• 2007 The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
• 2008 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.
• 2009 Carol Ann Duffy is appointed British Poet Laureate - first Scot and woman Laureate

• 2009 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden
• 2010 136th Kentucky Derby: Calvin Borel wins aboard Super Saver, his third Derby success in 4 years

• 2010 Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City
• 2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI
• 2012 China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
• 2012 Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion
• 2013 15 people are killed by multiple bomb attacks across Iraq
• 2013 16 people are killed in a flash flood in Saudi Arabia
• 2013 A digital camera is created that can mimic insect compound eyes
• 2013 Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand
• 2014 Hundreds march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose Western education
• 2015 Expo 2015 opens in Milan (thru till 31st October)

• 2017 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Mark Selby defends title beating John Higgins of Scotland, 18-15; his third world crown
• 2018 Chinese authorities label British cartoon "Peppa Pig" subversive and it is removed from the Douyin video website

• 2018 Scotland is the first country in the world to introduce a minimum price on alcohol
• 2018 Violent May Day protests in Paris by far-left Black Blocs group result in 200 arrests

• 2019 Argentine forward Lionel Messi scores twice for his 600th goal for FC Barcelona in a 3-0 home win over Liverpool in a Champions League semi final
• 2019 Evidence revealed that early humans from ancient Denisovan species lived at high altitudes in Tibet 160,000 years ago

• 2019 New York City officially names a street Sesame Street at the intersection of West 63rd Street and Broadway in honor of the show's 50th anniversary
• 2019 Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn marries for the fourth time to Suthida Tidjai, deputy head of his bodyguard, days before his coronation
• 2019 Two-time South African Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya loses appeal against proposed rules to limit her testosterone levels; medically reducing levels the only way to continue competition
• 2019 UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson fired over leaking information about Huawei deal from a UK National Security Council meeting by Theresa May
• 2019 US Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, defending his handling of the Mueller Report

• 2020 Armed protesters against stay-at-home-orders gather at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, as Governor Gretchen Whitmer reinstates State of Emergency

• 2020 Prison riot leaves more than 40 dead and many injured at Los Llanos jail, near Guanare city, Venezuela

• 2021 147th Kentucky Derby: Medina Spirit gives jockey John Velazquez his fourth Derby win and trainer Bob Baffert a record seventh victory in the race
• 2021 India is the first country to record more than 400,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day (401,993) [1]
• 2022 First of two sets of human remains revealed by receding Lake Mead, US's largest reservoir, near Las Vegas likely linked to mob activity in the 1970s and 80s [1]

• 2023 US White Houses estimates Russia has lost 100,000 troops so far in 2023 invading Ukraine, with 20,000 killed. Half of those losses from Wagner mercenaries. [1]

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