On This Day
1 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1897 Swami Vivekananda established the Ramakrishna Mission.
- 1923 May Day was celebrated for the first time in India.
- 1926 Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, which had attacked and killed about 125 people.
- 1960 Bombay State was dissolved with the formation of Maharashtra and Gujarat states.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1486 Christopher Columbus proposed his plan to search for a western sea-route to India in an audience with Spanish monarch, Isabella I. Full support was granted 3 years later, in 1492.
- 1873 David Livingstone, British physician and explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era, died.
- 1889 May Day—traditionally a celebration of the return of spring, marked by dancing around a Maypole—was first observed as a labour holiday in Chicago, USA, designated as such by the International Socialist Congress.
- 1923 Joseph Heller, American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays, was born. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.
- 1939 Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27.
- 1945 Adolf Hitler's death is announced on German radio.
- 1948 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president.
- 1961 Fidel Castro declares Cuba a socialist nation and bans elections.
- 1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
- 1964 First BASIC program ran on a computer in Dartmouth, England.
- 2011 Osama Bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad Pakistan by US Navy SEALS in Operation Neptune Spear.
- ⭐ Significance
- International Labour Day, also known as Workers' Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on May Day.
- Maharashtra Day, commonly known as Maharashtra Din is a state holiday in the Indian state of Maharashtra, commemorating the formation of the state of Maharashtra from the division of the Bombay State on 1 May 1960.
- Every year on the first Sunday in May, World Laughter Day raises awareness of laughter and the many healing benefits it provides.
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