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01 May, 2000

May Day violence on London streets: Hundreds of anti-capitalist demonstrators fight running battles with police - the Cenotaph and statue of Winston Churchill are defaced with graffiti

01 May, 1994

Race ace Senna killed in car crash: The world-class Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna dies in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Italy.

01 May, 1992

On the third day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, African American criminal Rodney King appeared in public before television news cameras to appeal for calm and plead for peace, asking, "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?".

01 May, 1982

RAF bombs Port Stanley: British planes attack two airstrips near the capital of the Falkland Islands in the war to rid the islands of Argentine forces

01 May, 1961

Bookmakers / Betting-shops become legal in Britain. Victorious Castro bans elections: Fidel Castro declares Cuba a socialist nation saying, "The revolution has no time for elections."

01 May, 1960

Cold War: U-2 Crisis - Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking off a diplomatic crisis.

01 May, 1956

The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public. A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease

01 May, 1948

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il Sung as president.

01 May, 1946

The Paris Peace Conference desides that the islands of the Dodecanese are returned to Greece by the Italians.

01 May, 1945

Germany announces Hitler is dead: The German Fuhrer is killed in the Reich Chancery of Berlin fighting the Soviets, according to German radio. Soviet troops raise the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag, in Berlin

01 May, 1941

World War II: German forces launch Operation Mercury the largest airborne invasion to date in their bid to capture Crete. German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.

01 May, 1933

A telephone link between Britain and India was established.

01 May, 1931

The Empire State Building, New York, was completed it had cost $41 million to build.

01 May, 1900

Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah.

01 May, 1834

The British colonies abolish slavery.

01 May, 1707

The Act of Union joins England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

01 May, 1328

Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - England recognises Scotland as an independent nation.

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