12 Ordibehesht 1456

Events

• 1865 (161 years ago) The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
• 1886 (140 years ago) Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
• 1894 (132 years ago) Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: German radio broadcasts news of Adolf Hitler's death, falsely stating that he has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin. Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
• 1960 (66 years ago) Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Angolan Civil War: The MPLA and UNITA agree to the Bicesse Accords, which are formally signed on May 31 in Lisbon.
• 2003 (23 years ago) 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".
• 2004 (22 years ago) 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.

Births

• 1672 (354 years ago) Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician (died 1719)
• 1769 (257 years ago) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1852)
• 1852 (174 years ago) Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1934)
• 1881 (145 years ago) Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest, palaeontologist, and philosopher (died 1955)
• 1923 (103 years ago) Joseph Heller, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1999)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Wes Anderson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1987 (39 years ago) Leonardo Bonucci, Italian footballer
• 1988 (38 years ago) Anushka Sharma, Indian actress and film producer

Deaths

• 408 (1618 years ago) Arcadius, Byzantine emperor from 383 to 408 (born 377)
• 1555 (471 years ago) Pope Marcellus II,
• 1572 (454 years ago) Pope Pius V,
• 1873 (153 years ago) David Livingstone, Scottish-English missionary and explorer (born 1813)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (born 1841)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897)
• 1978 (48 years ago) Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (born 1903)
• 1994 (32 years ago) Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (born 1960)

All 303 events, births and deaths of May 1