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The following events took place on May 1. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 88 events. Showing 61 - 88.

• 1960

  Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking 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, takes place.
• 1970

  Protests erupt in Seattle, following the announcement by U.S. 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) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
• 1974

  The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
• 1977

  Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
• 1978

  Japan’s Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
• 1982

  The 1982 World’s Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
• 1982

  Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the 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

  Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
• 1990

  The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
• 1991

  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.
• 1993

  Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion
• 1994

  Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
• 1995

  Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
• 1999

  The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
• 2001

  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.
• 2003

  Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the “Mission Accomplished” speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended”.
• 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 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

  Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
• 2011

  Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
• 2011

  Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has been killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Due to the time difference between the United States and Pakistan, bin Laden was actually killed on May 2.

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