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Orson Welles in 1937
World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Carl Linnaeus
The Marriage of Figaro Overture
Empire State Building
Carol Ann Duffy
Penny Black postage stamp
Stephen Báthory
Anna Jagiellon
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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 .
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 .
1753 –
Carl Linnaeus (pictured) published his
Species Plantarum , which, with his earlier work
Systema Naturae , is considered the beginning of modern
botanical nomenclature .
1776 – The
secret society known as the
Order of the Illuminati was founded by
Adam Weishaupt and
Adolph von Knigge in
Ingolstadt ,
Bavaria , Germany.
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 .
1840 – The United Kingdom issued the
Penny Black , the world's first official adhesive
postage stamp .
1851 –
The Great Exhibition , the first
world's fair , opened in
London 's
Hyde Park .
1865 – Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina signed a treaty
creating an alliance against Paraguay in the
War of the Triple Alliance .
1885 – The original
Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.
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.
1900 – A
dust explosion at a coal mine near
Scofield, Utah , US,
killed at least 200 miners.
1925 – The
All-China Federation of Trade Unions , the world's largest
trade union with 134 million members, was founded in
Guangzhou , China.
1931 –
New York City 's
Empire State Building , at the time the
tallest building in the world , opened.
1947 – Italian separatist
Salvatore Giuliano and his gang
fired into a crowd of
May Day marchers near
Piana degli Albanesi ,
Sicily , killing 11 and wounding 33.
1960 –
Bombay State in India was partitioned into
Gujarat and
Maharashtra along
linguistic lines .
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 .
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 .
2003 –
Invasion of Iraq : Aboard the
USS Abraham Lincoln in front of a "
Mission Accomplished " banner,
US President
George W. Bush declared that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
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.
Notes
May 1 :
International Workers' Day ;
Easter (Eastern Christianity, 2016);
Beltane in Ireland and Scotland;
Law Day and
Loyalty Day in the United States
Scene from Citizen Kane