1707: The Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland merged and formed the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1840: The Penny Black, the first adhesive postage stamp, was issued in the United Kingdom.
1844: Hong Kong Police Force became the second modern police force in the world and the first in Asia.
1886,: International Labour Day celebrated for the first time at the second meeting of the Communist International.
1890: World Labour Day celebrated for the first time in the world.
1897: Ramakrishna Mission started by Swami Vivekananda.
1927: World Labour Day celebrated in India for the first time.
1930: The ninth planet in the solar system named Pluto.
1940: Olympic Games were cancelled due to war.
1960: Partition of Bombay province into Maharashtra and Gujarat.
1960: Establishment of the Gujurat High Court.
1961: Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist nation and cancelled elections.
1978: Japan’s Naomi Uemura became the first man to reach the North Pole alone.
1993: Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadas died in bombing.
2011: United States President BarackObama confirmed that al-Qaeda leader Osamabin Laden had been killed in his compound in Abbottabad, northeastern Pakistan.
Famous Birthdays May 1
1913: Balraj Sahni, an Indian film and stage actor.
1915: Dr. Rameshwar Shukla Anchal, a Hindi Literary.
1919: Manna Dey, an internationally acclaimed Indian playback singer, music director, musician, and Indian classical vocalist.
1922: Madhu Limaye, an Indian socialist essayist and activist.
1931: Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, a leading exponent, choreographer, and guru of the Indian classical dance form of Manipuri.
1932: S. M. Krishna, an Indian politician and the 16th Chief Minister of Karnataka.
1955: Anand Mahindra, an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Mahindra Group
1971: Ajith Kumar, an Indian actor who works predominantly in Tamil cinema.
1988: Anushka Sharma, an Indian actress, and producer.
Death Anniversaries May 1
1945: Paul Joseph Goebbels, a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany.
1972: Kamalnayan Bajaj was an Indian businessman and politician.
1993: Ranasinghe Premadasa, the third President of Sri Lanka.
1492: Spain gave Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1622: Shah Jahan Married to Mumtaj.
1789: George Washington took the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
1897: J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announced his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton.
1936: Mahatma Gandhi established Sevagram Ashram near Wardha, Maharashtra.
1945: Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin.
1982: Bijan Setu massacre in Calcutta.
1995: Bill Clinton became the first US president to visit Northern Ireland.
Famous Birthdays April 30.
1777: Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German mathematician, and physicist.
1870: Dadasaheb Phalke, an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of Indian cinema.
1909: Tukadoji Maharaj, a spiritual saint from Maharashtra, India.
1910: Sri Sri, an Indian Telugu-language poet, and lyricist.
1921: Roger Lee Easton, an American scientist.
1944: Sonal Mansingh, an Indian classical Bharatnatyam dancer.
1987: Rohit Sharma, an Indian international cricketer.
Death Anniversaries April 30.
1030: Mahmud of Ghazni, the first independent ruler of the Turkic dynasty of Ghaznavids.
1837: Hari Singh Nalwa, Commander-in-chief of the Sikh Khalsa Fauj, the army of the Sikh Empire.
1939: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose resigned from Congress.
1965: Pakistan successfully launched its seventh rocket.
1982: International Dance Day began.
1991: A severe cyclone in the southern Chittagong district of Bangladesh killed at least 138,000 people and left millions homeless.
1997: The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
Famous Birthdays April 29.
1848: Raja Ravi Varma, a celebrated Indian painter, and artist.
1867: Dr. Shankar Abaji Bhise, an Indian scientist.
1891: Bharathidasan, a Tamil poet and writer rationalist.
1919: Ustad Allarakha Qureshi, an Indian tabla player.
1936: Zubin Mehta, an Indian conductor of Western and Eastern classical music.
1958: Ramachandra Guha, an Indian writer.
1979: Ashish Nehra is an Indian cricket coach and former cricketer.
Death Anniversaries April 29.
1960: Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen, an Indian freedom activist, journalist, politician, and poet of Hindi literature.
1980: Alfred Hitchcock, an English film director, producer, and screenwriter.
2006: JK Galbraith, a Canadian-American economist.
