👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Workers’ Day (Labor Day).
🌏 World Love Day.
🌏 Postage stamp birthday.
🇪🇺 Europe – May Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – Day of fountains.
🇮🇳 India – Maharashtra Day / Gujarat Day
🇺🇸 USA – Law Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Loyalty Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – National Doctors Day.
🇨🇦 Canada, 🇺🇸 USA – School Principals’ Day.
🇯🇲 Jamaica – Teacher’s Day.
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands – Constitution Day.
🇱🇻 Latvia – the day on which the Constitutional Assembly was convened.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Day of the unity of the people of Kazakhstan.
🇦🇷 Argentina – Constitution Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 305 – Ancient Roman rulers Diocletian and Maximian abdicate.
– 1006 – Supernova SN 1006 erupts.
– 1328 – England recognized the independence of Scotland.
– 1455 – Battle of Arkingholm.
– 1682 – Louis XIV inaugurated the Paris Observatory.
– 1699 – French Louisiana was founded along the Mississippi River.
– 1707 – A treaty of peace was signed between England and Scotland.
– 1840 – the first postage stamps in the world appeared in England.
– 1884 – The construction of the first skyscraper – a 10-story building – began in Chicago.
– 1885 – The first electric lights were lit in the city of Ottawa.
– 1886 – A strike took place in the USA, as a result of which 3 people died and 4 representatives of the working class of the USA were executed.
– 1886 – Burma was incorporated into British India.
– 1890 – May 1 was celebrated as a holiday for the first time in European countries.
– 1899 – Aspirin goes on sale for the first time.
– 1912 – The Canadian dollar was introduced for the first time.
– 1917 – May 1 holiday was publicly celebrated in Russia.
– 1918 – the first Soviet Nieuport-XXI plane, piloted by pilot I. N. Vinogradov, flew over Red Square.
– 1919 – the fall of the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
– 1925 – Cyprus was declared a British colony. This was not the first time that the island fell under the rule of the English: in 1191 it was conquered by Richard Sherryuk.
– 1930 – the name of the ninth planet of the Solar System – Pluto, discovered on February 18 – was announced.
– 1930 – Fergana State University was established.
– 1933 – A telephone connection was established between Britain and India.
– 1941 – “Citizen Kane” by Orson Welles premiered in the USA.
– 1945 – A victory flag was installed on the Reichstag building in Berlin.
– 1948 – the establishment of the DPRK was announced.
– 1959 – Chirchik City Local History (Local History) Museum was established.
– 1963 – The former Dutch colony of West Irian, under the control of the UN Provisional Administration, was transferred to Indonesia.
– 1974 – Political prisoners are released in Portugal and media censorship is abolished.
– 1978 – May 1 was celebrated on a national scale for the first time in Great Britain.
– 1979 – Greenland gained self-government.
– 1992 – The IRA attacked a checkpoint in Clochodje.
– 1993 – Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa was killed in a terrorist attack in Colombo.
– 1998 – the honorary title “People’s Master of the Republic of Uzbekistan” was established.
– 1995 – The National Security Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established.
– 2004 – Hungary, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Estonia were included among the member states of the European Union.
– 2019 – Naruhito ascended the throne of Japan.
– 2020 – The dam wall of the “Sardoba” water reservoir in the Syrdarya region was damaged and a flood occurred.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1764 – Benjamin Latrobe (1820) – English-American architect, the main designer of the Washington Capitol.
– 1672 – Joseph Addison (1719) – English publicist, playwright, poet, politician, pedagogue, founder of English journalism.
– 1852 – Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1934) – Spanish histologist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1906).
– 1881 – Teilhard de Chardin (1955) – French anthropologist, paleontologist and philosopher, scientist who first discovered synanthropus.
– 1896 – Muhitdin Qoriyagubov (1957) – singer, opera singer (baritone), actor, one of the founders of the Uzbek musical theater.
– 1904 – Ganiyev Nabi (1953) – film director, one of the founders of Uzbek cinema, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1944).
– 1905 – Akrom Yusupov – People’s Artist of Uzbekistan, circus artist.
– 1907 – Sofya Yevseyevna Karakash (Shvidler) (1983) – pianist-concertmaster, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1972).
– 1908 – Yahya G’ulomov (1977) – historian, archaeologist, scientist, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1958).
– 1913 – Mannon Azizov (1987) – chemist scientist, honored scientist of Uzbekistan (1964).
– 1913 – Florian Bobic (1942) – Yugoslav politician, People’s Hero of Yugoslavia.
– 1916 – Malik Nabiyev (2008) – painter, pedagogue, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1992).
– 1920 – Maya Quliyeva (2018) – Turkmen singer (lyric soprano), People’s Artist (1955).
– 1924 – Ergash Yoldoshev (1991) – singer (dramatic tenor), People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1974).
– 1925 – Akhmadjon Odilov (2017) – influential Uzbek businessman and politician, Hero of Socialist Labor (1965).
– 1926 – Peter David Lax – Hungarian and American mathematician. Has been working in the fields of pure and applied mathematics.
– 1933 – Artik Faizullayev – wood and bone carver, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1997).
– 1936 – Dilbar Abdurahmonova (2018) – conductor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1969).
– 1942 – Elyor Ishmukhamedov – film director and screenwriter, People’s Artist of the Uzbek SSR.
– 1942 – Nasiba Ibragimova – high-class announcer, honored artist of Uzbekistan (1976).
– 1952 – Ne’matov Ilhomjon – First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1956 – Abdukakhor Tokhtayev – Uzbek statesman, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, Minister of Construction, served as governor in the cities of Jizzakh, Tashkent, and Shaikhontohur, Almazor districts. Since 2019, the mayor of Shaikhontohur district.
– 1957 – Layla Akhmerova – field hockey player, master of sports of international class, Olympic medalist.
– 1958 – Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon – Benin businessman and politician, President of the country since 2016.
– 1967 – Iqbal Mirza – People’s Poet of Uzbekistan.
– 1968 – Oliver Birkhoff – German football player, European champion.
– 1971 – Amira Kazar – French theater and film actress.
– 1974 – Dilshod Yorbekov – Uzbek boxer, Asian champion, winner of the World Championship.
– 1983 – Alain Bernard – French swimmer, two-time Olympic champion.
– 1987 – Leonardo Bonucci – Italian football player, European champion (2020)
– 1992 – Madeleine Brewer – American actress.