May 1
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Events
- Northern Europe – Walpurgis Night.
- Labour Day, Workers' Day, Day of the International Solidarity of Workers.
- 1851 - The Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition opens in London
- 1893 – The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- 1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
- 1941 - Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premieres in New York City
- 1947 - Evelyn McHale leaps to her death.
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Births
- 1672 – Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (d. 1719)
- 1837 - Mother Jones, American labor activist (d. 1930)
- 1881 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (d. 1955)
- 1917 – Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress (d. 2017)
- 1923 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (d. 1999)
- 1924 – Karel Kachyňa, Czech film director (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
- 1940 – Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
- 1946 – Joanna Lumley, English actress
- 1946 – John Woo, Hong Kong director
- 1969 – Wes Anderson, American director and writer
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Deaths
- 1904 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
- 1945 – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide with his wife Magda Goebbels) (b. 1897)
- 1965 – Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (b. 1911)
- 1973 – Asger Jorn, Danish member of the Situationist International, and a prolific artist and essayist.
- 1992 – Sharon Redd, American house music and urban contemporary singer (b. 1945)
- 1998 – Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
- 2000 – Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
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