What to remember about May 1st…
International Workers Day / May Day / Law Day
- 1863 Vastly outnumbered Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee are attacked as Battle of Chancellorsville begins in Virginia
- 1898 Squadron of 7 U.S. warships destroy or capture 10 Spanish warships at Battle of Manilla Bay; Admiral Dewey opens city to invasion
- 1915 RMS Lusitania departs New York City for voyage to Liverpool, England with 1959 souls aboard; vessel will never arrive at her destination
- 1931 Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City
- 1956 Polio vaccine is made available to the public
- 1958 President Eisenhower declares May 1st as Law Day; day celebrates America as nation of laws in opposition to communist May Day
- 1960 Lockheed U-2 spy plane operated by the CIA and flown by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union
- 1961 Prime Minister Fidel Castro proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections
- 1963 James Whittaker becomes the 1st American to reach the summit of Mt. Everest
- 1982 British bombers fly 8,000 miles to strike at Argentinian forces during Falklands War; Operation Black Buck begins with strike on Port Stanley
- 1992 On 3rd day of rioting after acquittal of 4 LAPD officers, Rodney King appears at press conference and appeals to public “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?”
- 2003 President George W. Bush gives speech aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln; declares that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended”
- 2011 President Barack Hussein Obama II announces that Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan
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