May 1st, 1672

Born on May 1st, 1672

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 129,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 1st?

May 1st, 2002

The Horncastle boar's head (pictured), which probably once formed part of the crest of an Anglo-Saxon helmet, was found.

May 1st, 2016

The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned for another 14 months, becoming the costliest disaster in Canadian history.

May 1st, 1991

In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.

May 1st, 1974

Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization.

May 1st, 1950

Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

May 1st, 1947

Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.

May 1st, 1945

Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.

May 1st, 1941

Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.

May 1st, 1931

New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.

May 1st, 1900

A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U.S., killed at least 200 miners.

May 1st, 1885

The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.

May 1st, 1884

Moses Fleetwood Walker (pictured), the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the Toledo Blue Stockings.

May 1st, 1794

War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Second Battle of Boulou.

May 1st, 1786

The Marriage of Figaro (audio featured), an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

May 1st, 1776

The secret society known as the Order of Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt and Adolph Freiherr Knigge in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 1st

Born on May 1st, 1672

47

Joseph Addison

English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)

*May 1st, 1672, Milston †June 17th, 1719, Kensington

Same year
Born in 1672

70

Hugh Boulter

Anglican bishop (1672-1742)

*January 4th, 1672, London †September 27th, 1742, London

70

Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino

Italian librettist

*March 21st, 1672, Padua †April 16th, 1742, Dresden

79

François Chicoyneau

French physician (1672-1752)

*April 23rd, 1672, Montpellier †April 13th, 1752, Versailles

69

Pylyp Orlyk

Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks

*November 11th, 1672, Kasuta †May 26th, 1742, Iași

60

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

Swiss paleontologist (1672–1733)

*August 2nd, 1672, Zurich †June 23rd, 1733, Zurich

50

Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond

Illegitimate son of Charles II of England (1672-1723)

*July 29th, 1672, London †May 27th, 1723, Goodwood House

42

Anna Mons

Mistress of Peter the Great

*January 26th, 1672, Moscow †August 15th, 1714, Moscow

66

Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg

German noble (1672–1738)

*June 17th, 1672, Kassel †August 29th, 1738, Weimar

60

Lucy Filippini

18th-century Roman Catholic saint

*January 13th, 1672, Tarquinia †March 25th, 1732, Montefiascone

59

Antoine Houdar de La Motte

French author

*January 17th, 1672, Paris †December 26th, 1731, Paris

74

Giuseppe Accoramboni

Catholic cardinal

*September 24th, 1672, Preci †March 21st, 1747, Rome

67

John Wanton

Rhode Island colonial governor

*December 24th, 1672, Scituate †July 5th, 1740, Newport

64

Benjamin Schmolck

German hymnwriter (1672-1737)

*December 21st, 1672, Legnica †February 12th, 1737, Świdnica

75

Ferdinandus Oesterhoff

*October 30th, 1672, Münster †October 22nd, 1748

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 1st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Commemoration of the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat following the foundation of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti , International Workers' Day or Labour Day , May Day) which are celebrated on May 1st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1672 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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