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Tuesday, 03 February 2026
May 01 Chinese authorities label British cartoon "Peppa Pig" subversive and it is removed from the Douyin video website. 
May 01 Liverpool's Egyptian soccer forward Mohamed Salah is recorded as becoming the inaugural African to be named England Football Writers' Footballer of the Year
May 01 Scotland is the inaugural country in the world to introduce a minimum price on alcohol.
May 01 Violent May Day protests in Paris by far-left Black Blocs group result in 200 arrests.
May 02 Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan asks widespread protests to halt after ruling Republican party said it would support his bid to be Prime Minister.
May 02 Date for inaugural humans or hominins in the Philippines pushed back ten-fold after report of site on Luzon with butchered rhinoceros 709000 years ago
May 02 E. coli outbreak linked to Romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, reports the inaugural fatality with 121 cases across 25 US states.
May 02 Indian city of Kanpur declared world's most polluted city by WHO with 14 other Indian cities in the top 20
May 02 Iowa passes US's strictest abortion ban, based on a fetal heartbeat.
May 02 Kanye West widely criticized for saying "slavery is a choice" in TMZ interview
May 02 New research show plants "talk" to each other through their roots and the soil in study on corn published in journal "Plos One"
May 02 Spanish Basque separatist group Eta announces it will be formally disbanding after 50 years.
May 03 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences members vote to expel Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski.
May 03 Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan is recorded as becoming NFL's inaugural $30m per season player after agreeing to $150m contract extension.
May 03 Bollywood actors both posthumously recognized at India's National Film Awards; Sridevi Kapoor Best Actress for "Mum" and Vinod Khanna recieves Dadasaheb Phalke award.
May 03 Indian government confirms around 110 people have died in dust storms in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the last 9 days.
May 03 Kilauea volcano on Big Island, Hawaii begins erupting forcing the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and residential areas.
May 03 The 2018 lower Puna eruption leads to destruction of structures and forces many citizens of Hawaii to evacuate as lava floods the land.
May 03 The separatist group ETA officially announces its final dissolution after 40 years of conflict and more than 800 deaths in Spain
May 04 California overtakes Great Britain to become the worlds fifth largest economy.
May 04 LA Angels 1st baseman Albert Pujols collects his 3000th MLB hit in a 5-0 win v Mariners in Seattle
May 05 Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, inaugural death from a vaping product
May 05 Former Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson suffers a brain haemorrhage and is hospitalised; recovers
May 05 In this year, 144th Kentucky Derby: 52 year old Mike Smith claims his second Derby aboard Justify.
May 05 In this year, Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover releases the music video to new single "This is America" to wide acclaim
May 05 NASA's unmanned spaceprobe InSight is launched. It is expected to land on Mars in November and use a drill to conduct geological science
May 07 Global tourism accounts for 8% of the world's carbon emissions according to a University of Sydney study
May 07 In this year, World Snooker Championship: Welshman Mark Williams claims beating John Higgins 18-16 in Sheffield and, as promised, does his press conference in the nude
May 07 Iran-Contra figure Oliver North announced as the new President of the US National Rifle Association.
May 07 Met Gala 2018 "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination' is hosted by Anna Wintour , Amal Clooney, Donatella Versace and Rihanna wearing a Pope-inspired outfit.
May 07 More mudslides in Rwanda kill 18 people bringing the year's death toll to 200.
May 07 Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years.
May 08 Ebola outbreak declared in north-west Democratic Republic of Congo with 2 confirmed cases and 17 deaths.
May 08 Largest-ever wave at 23.8m recorded in the South Hemisphere at Campbell Island by New Zealand scientists
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