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Amazing Signs News FeedThis Month In History
May 1 - Observed as May Day, a holiday and Spring festival since ancient times. It became a workers' day in the U.S. in the 1880s and is also observed in Socialist countries as a workers' holiday or Labor Day May 1, 1707 - Great Britain was formed from a union between England and Scotland. The union included Wales which had already been part of England since the 1500s. The United Kingdom today consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. May 1, 1960 - A U-2 spy plane flying at 60,000 feet was shot down over Sverdlovsk in central USSR on the eve of a summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. May 4, 1494 - During his second journey of exploration in the New World, Christopher Columbus discovered Jamaica. May 5, 1893 - The Wall Street Crash of 1893 began as stock prices fell dramatically. By the end of the year, 600 banks closed and several big railroads were in receivership. Another 15,000 businesses went bankrupt amid 20 percent unemployment. It was the worst economic crisis in U.S. history up to that time. May 6, 1937 - The German airship Hindenburg burst into flames at 7:20 p.m. as it neared the mooring mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey, following a trans-Atlantic voyage. May 14, 1607 - The first permanent English settlement in America was established at Jamestown, Virginia, by a group of royally chartered Virginia Company settlers from Plymouth, England. May 18, 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of France, snatching the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII during the actual coronation ceremony, and then crowning himself. May 20, 325 A.D. - The Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of Catholic Church was called by Constantine I, first Christian Emperor of the Roman Empire. With nearly 300 bishops in attendance at Nicaea in Asia Minor, the council condemned Arianism which denied Christ's divinity, formulated the Nicene Creed and fixed the date of Easter.
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