May 1: Beltane in Ireland and Scotland; Yom Hazikaron in Israel (2017); Loyalty Day in the United States
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Carol Ann Duffy
- 1169 – Norman mercenaries landed at Bannow Bay in Leinster, marking the beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland.
- 1776 – The secret society known as the Order of the Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt and Adolph von Knigge in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
- 1925 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union with 134 million members, was founded in Guangzhou, China.
- 1947 – Italian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.
- 2009 – Carol Ann Duffy (pictured) was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly bisexual person to hold the position, as well as the first laureate to be chosen in the 21st century.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (b. 1769) · Magda Goebbels (d. 1945)
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