Wednesday May 1st is the 122nd day of the Gregorian calendar. There are 244 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Saint Jeremiah
May proverb
May water is like the words of a wise man
It happened today
1931 – USA: the Empire State Building is inaugurated in New York
1941 – In New York, before the film Citizen Kane by Orson Welles.
1947 – In the Portella della Ginestra massacre, 11 people were murdered (2 children and 9 adults) and 27 were injured
1956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk (see March 26, 1953), is made available to the public
1967 – Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu get married
1978 – Japanese Naomi Uemura, traveling by sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone
1983 – In San Juan Edwin “El Chapo” Rosario wins the vacant WBC lightweight title, beating Jose Luis Ramirez on points in 12 rounds. He thus becomes the 14th world boxing champion
1994 – Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna dies during the San Marino Grand Prix
1995 – Heavy Serbian attacks on Sarajevo and, in retaliation, NATO airstrikes on Serbian ammunition depots.
2004 – European Union: ten new countries join: Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary.
2009 – In Sweden, same-sex marriages are legal from this date: they will also be celebrated by the Swedish Lutheran Church, as already happens in Norway.
2011 – Pope John Paul II is proclaimed blessed.
2015 – The Universal Exposition of Milan is inaugurated in Italy
Birthdays
Leonardo Bonucci – Italian footballer (1 May 1987)
Youma Diakite – former Malian model and TV personality (1 May 1971)
Roby Facchinetti – Italian singer and musician, Pooh (1 May 1944)
