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Notable anniversaries in history for today: May 1
- 100th: 1924 - Admiral Paul Koundouriótis becomes President of Greece.
- 100th: 1924 - August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at age 62.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Art Fleming in the Bronx, New York, USA; TV host (Jeopardy) (dies 1995).
- 90th: 1934 - Austria signs pact with Vatican.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Alette Beaujon; Curaçaos poet (Gedichten on the Bay and Elsewhere).
- 90th: 1934 - Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence.
- 80th: 1944 - Messerschmitt Me-262 Sturmvogel, first operational jet aircraft (twin-jet fighter), makes first flight.
- 80th: 1944 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark).
- 80th: 1944 - Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails.
- 70th: 1954 - 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Michael Scott; reporter (Entertainment Tonight).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Ray Parker Junior in Detroit, Michigan, USA; rock guitarist/vocalist ("Ghostbusters").
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Taslim Arif; cricket player (Pakistan keeper/batsman, 210 versus Australia 1980).
- 70th: 1954 - American Motors is formed by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Comopany.
- 70th: 1954 - Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist organization forbidden).
- 70th: 1954 - HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies).
- 70th: 1954 - Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at age 50.
- 60th: 1964 - At Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, the BASIC programming language runs for the first time. The language was developed by professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is based on FORTRAN and Algol, and was developed for a General Electric 225 mainframe computer.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Bruno Ravel in Paris, France; rocker (Danger Danger - "Screw It").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Carlos Aalbers; Dutch soccer player (NEC).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Sarah FE Armstrong-Jones, daughter of princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon.
- 60th: 1964 - Death of Spike Jones at age 62; bandleader (Spike Jones and His City Slickers - "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)" (1948)).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Matthew Hatchette; NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Vladimir Zavyalov; hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998).
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Gordon Jenkins of Lou Gehrig's Disease at age 73; orchestra leader (The Mayor of the Town, The Man Called X, Al Jolson, Jack Carson, Dick Haymes, NBC Comedy Hour), musical director (Decca, Capitol Records, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole).
- 40th: 1984 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 30th: 1994 - Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna dies in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix.
- 30th: 1994 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament.
- 30th: 1994 - Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship.
- 30th: 1994 - Tornado and hail storms hit Jiangxi, China, 95 killed.
- 25th: 1999 - 125th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Charismatic wins in 2:03.2.
- 20th: 2004 - The largest expansion to date of the European Union takes place, extending the Union by ten member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.
- 20th: 2004 - Barry Bonds sets a major league record by being walked four times intentionally in a nine-inning game.
- 20th: 2004 - The Sasser computer worm is first noticed on the loose, affecting Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The worm crashes and rebots computers, replicating itself to other computers. Millions of computers are quickly affected worldwide.
- 5th: 2019 - Russian President Vladimir Putin signs into law a controversial "sovereign internet" bill that allows Russian authorities to better monitor internet routing and to steer Russian internet traffic away from foreign servers.
- 5th: 2019 - King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand marries his personal bodyguard Suthida Tidjai - a commoner - in a surprise ceremony, making her queen consort of Thailand.
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