May 1 : A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

On this day, 01 May…

1753 - Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, published the first edition of his Species Plantarum in.

1784 - Britain & Tippu Sahib of Mysore sign peace treaty.

 1851 - The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations opened in Hyde Park, London. This was the first international exhibition to be held in any country. 

1860 - A patent for the shaving mug was granted to Thomas E. Hughes. (Earlier, shaving mugs were a part of many men's grooming routine. Though they may not be as common as they once were, shaving mugs are still a useful way to whip up a batch of creamy shaving lotion that will leave your face soft and smooth).

1884 - Construction began in Chicago, Illinois, on the first skyscraper, the ten-story steel-skeleton Home Insurance Company of New York (The use of a steel skeleton made the building of skyscrapers possible, for the frame carries the entire weight of the building, instead of the walls themselves supporting the entire weight). 

1886 - May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, rest, for 8 Hours.

1894 - Black American inventor, William B. Purvis patented an "Electric Railway".

1899 - Bayer introduced aspirin in powder form, in Germany.

1924 - The first iodized table salt in the U.S. went on sale. The table salt contained 0.01% sodium iodide as a dietary supplement since an adequate intake of iodine reduces the incidence of goiter.

1926 - Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.

1948 - Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.

1960 - 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 in India.

1960 - Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujarat States.

1966 - Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.

1977 - Janata Party was established.

1994 - Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established.

1995 - SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.

1998 - India resumes underground nuclear tests after more than a 20-year gap.

(There were three underground tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device).

2012 - Japan's car sales soar significantly after the previous year’s earthquake and tsunami, coming in at a 92% rise year-over-year.

2015 - Elon Musk, head of Tesla Motors, announces the formation of Tesla Energy, a producer of large batteries for storage of generated renewable energy in homes and businesses.

Born

1621 - Guru Teg Bahadur.

1913 - Balraj Sahni, actor.

1919 - Manna Dey, singer.

1973 - Diana Hayden, actor.

1988 - Anushka Sharma, actor.

RIP

2008 - Nirmala Deshpande, a noted Indian social activist who had embraced the Gandhian philosophy. She devoted her adult life to the promotion of communal harmony and service to women, tribal people, and the dispossessed in India.

Titbits

2015 - Astha Arora named India's billionth baby.

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