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1704 Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper advertisement
1715 Prussia declares war on Sweden
1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna with Mozart himself directing
1840 "Penny Black", the world's first adhesive postage stamp issued by Great Britain
1851 Great Exhibition opens in the Crystal Palace, at Hyde Park, London
1854 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, 29,000 injured or died
1875 Alexandra Palace, London, reopens after being burnt down in 1873
1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1889 2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark protests in Chicago in 1886
1923 Adolf Hitler and Ernst Rohm attempt to break up socialist May Day demonstrates, inviting Nazis from as far away as Nuremberg to take part in the violence
1929 Farm workers strike begins
in East-groningen
1930 Cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 236 for Australia v Worcestershire in his first 1st class innings in England
1937 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, banning travel on belligerent ships and imposes an arms embargo on warring nations
1943 Food rationing begins in the United States during World War II
1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to American Martin Flavin for his novel Journey in the Dark
1946 The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy
1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic of China
1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with the Nash-kelvinator Corporation to form the American Motors Corporation
1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina
1969 James Chichester-clark is elected as leader of the Unionist party, succeededing Terence O'neill as the Northern Ireland Prime Minister
1971 Rolling Stones release Brown Sugar
1977 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
1994 My Fair Lady closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165
performances
2006 The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
2012 China and Russia sign US$15 billion dollar trade deal
2019 UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson fired over leaking information about Huawei deal from a UK National Security Council meeting by Theresa May
2020 Tweets by Elon Musk saying Tesla's share price is too high wipe $14 billion off the carmaker's value
2021 147th Kentucky Derby: Medina Spirit gives jockey John Velazquez his fourth Derby win and trainer Bob Baffert a record seventh victory in the race. AGENCIES