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Today’s Historical Events on 01 May
1707, 1st May: The Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland merged and formed the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1840, 1st May: The Penny Black, the first adhesive postage stamp, was issued in the United Kingdom.
1844, 1st May: Hong Kong Police Force became the second modern police force in the world and the first in Asia.
1886, 1st May: International Labor Day celebrated for the first time at the second meeting of the Communist International.
1890, 1st May: World Labor Day celebrated for the first time in the world.
1897, 1st May: Ramakrishna Mission started by Swami Vivekananda.
1927, 1st May: World Labor Day celebrated in India for the first time.
1930, 1st May: The ninth planet in the solar system named Pluto.
1940, 1st May: Olympic Games were canceled due to war.
1960, 1st May: Partition of Bombay province into Maharashtra and Gujarat.
1960, 1st May: Establishment of the Gujrat High Court.
1961, 1st May: Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist nation and canceled elections.
1978, 1st May: Japan’s Naomi Uemura became the first man to reach the North Pole alone.
1993, 1st May: Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadas died in bombing.
2011, 1st May: United States President BarackObama confirmed that al-Qaeda leader OsamabinLaden had been killed in his compound in Abbottabad, northeastern Pakistan.
Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on May 1
1913: Balraj Sahni, an Indian film and stage actor.
1915: Dr. Rameshwar Shukla Anchal, a Hindi Literary.
1919: Manna Dey, an internationally acclaimed Indian playback singer, music director, musician, and Indian classical vocalist.
1922: Madhu Limaye, an Indian socialist essayist and activist.
1931: Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, a leading exponent, choreographer, and guru of the Indian classical dance form of Manipuri.
1932: S. M. Krishna, an Indian politician and the 16th Chief Minister of Karnataka.
1955: Anand Mahindra, an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Mahindra Group
1971: Ajith Kumar, an Indian actor who works predominantly in Tamil cinema.
1988: Anushka Sharma, an Indian actress, and producer.
Death Anniversaries of famous people on May 1
1945: Paul Joseph Goebbels, a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany.
1972: Kamalnayan Bajaj was an Indian businessman and politician.
1993: Ranasinghe Premadasa, the third President of Sri Lanka.