May 1
People born on this day are Taurus.
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Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa is assassinated in Colombo in a suicide bombing carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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Three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix.
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The Labour Party wins the 1997 General Election and Tony Blair is elected as Prime Minister.
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Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
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Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
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Faisal Shahzad attempts to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, but the bomb fails to go off.
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Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
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Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) resumes the Deir ez-Zor campaign in order to clear the remnants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border.
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Naxalite attack in Gadchiroli district of India: Sixteen army soldiers, including a driver, killed in an IED blast. Naxals targeted an anti-Naxal operations team.
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Naruhito ascends to the throne of Japan succeeding his father Akihito, beginning the Reiwa period.
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The 2024 Loblaw boycott, a Canadian boycott against retail corporation and grocer Loblaw Companies, begins.
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After a ransomware attack by the group ShinyHunters, the education platform Canvas operated by private company Instructure, goes offline, affecting thousands of educational institutions.
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2006Lewis Miley, English footballer
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2005Linda Fruhvirtová, Czech tennis player
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2004Charli D'Amelio, American social media influencer and dancer
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2003Lizzy Greene, American actress
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2002Camilla Araujo, American influencer
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2002Chet Holmgren, American basketball player
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2000Rema, Nigerian singer-songwriter and rapper
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1999YNW Melly, American rapper
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1999Tiffany Stratton, American wrestler
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1997Miles Sanders, American football player
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1996William Nylander, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player
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1992Madeline Brewer, American actress
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