May 1
| 408 | Theodosius II succeeds to the throne of Constantinople. | |
| 1308 | King Albert is murdered by his nephew John, because he refused his share of the Habsburg lands. | |
| 1486 | Christopher Columbus convinces Queen Isabella to fund expedition to the West Indies. | |
| 1805 | The state of Virginia passes a law requiring all freed slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment or deportation. | |
| 1863 | The Battle of Chancellorsville begins as Union Gen. Joe Hooker starts his three-pronged attack against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. | |
| 1867 | Reconstruction in the South begins with black voter registration. | |
| 1877 | President Ruthoford B. Hayes withdraws all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction. | |
| 1898 | The U.S. Navy under Dewey defeats the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay in the Philippines. | |
| 1915 | The luxury liner Lusitania leaves New York Harbor for a voyage to Europe. | |
| 1927 | Adolf Hitler holds his first Nazi meeting in Berlin. | |
| 1931 | The Empire State Building opens in New York. | |
| 1934 | The Philippine legislature accepts a U.S. proposal for independence. | |
| 1937 | President Franklin Roosevelt signs an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II. | |
| 1941 | The film Citizen Kane–directed and starring Orson Welles–opens in New York. | |
| 1944 | The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, makes its first flight. | |
| 1945 | Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, escapes the Fuehrerbunker as the Red Army advances on Berlin. | |
| 1948 | North Korea is established. | |
| 1950 | Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called Annie Allen. | |
| 1960 | Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane is shot down over Russia. | |
| 1961 | Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba. | |
| 1968 | In the second day of battle, U.S. Marines, with the support of naval fire, continue their attack on a North Vietnamese Division at Dai Do. | |
| 1970 | Students from Kent State University riot in downtown Kent, Ohio, in protest of the American invasion of Cambodia. | |
| 1986 | The Tass News Agency reports the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. | |
| 2011 | Osama Bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad Pakistan by US Navy SEALS in Operation Neptune Spear. |
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