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Wednesday, 24 December 2025
1986 On May - 01 bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph 
1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap on May - 01.
1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole on May - 01.
1987 British Customs seizes Air Canada jet at Heathrow Airport after discovering a major hashish shipment from India; plane released after Air Canada pays substantial fine on May - 01.
1987 On May - 01 pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1988 IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3 on this day in history.
1988 Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer on May - 01.
1989 On this day in history 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to the public
1989 On May - 01 uS Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non-discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting
1989 David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered on this day in history.
1990 Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62 on this day in history.
1991 A's Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal (vs Yankees) on this day in history.
1991 On this day in history actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy
1991 On this day in history angola's civil war ends
1991 Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge on this day in history.
1991 Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base on this day in history.
1991 On this day in history skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual &heterosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC
1991 Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies on May - 01.
1992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior on this day in history.
1992 On May - 01 rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
1993 On this day in history bomb attack on Sri Lankan President (26 die)
1993 Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50 on May - 01.
1994 On May - 01 charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
1994 Tornado &hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed on May - 01.
1994 On this day in history ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34
1995 Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia vs West Indies at Sabina Park on May - 01.
1996 Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1997 On May - 01 toni Blair elected PM of UK
1997 Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40 on this day in history.
1998 On May - 01 former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver dies today in Pomona, California, at age 62
1999 The body of British mountaineer George Mallory is found on Mount Everest almost 75 years after he disappeared on a climbing expedition on May - 01.
2002 On this day in history indian heat wave in India killing 1,030 people
2005 A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, and leaves at least 25 people dead and more than 30 others injured. Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad on May - 01.
2006 On May - 01 bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields.
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