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'''1 May''' was a [[Calendar date|date]]. It was celebrated as '''[[May Day]]'''.

==Holidays and observances==
1 [[May]] was celebrated as [[May Day]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and several other countries on the [[planet]] [[Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Who Killed Kennedy (novel)}})

==Events==
In [[1643]], the May Day celebration in [[Little Hodcombe]] turned especially bloody as the village's [[Queen of the May]] was [[murder|burned]] at the stake, an event instigated by the [[Malus]] and recounted by [[Will Chandler]] to the [[Fifth Doctor]] in [[1984]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Awakening (TV story)}})

In [[1699]], [[Captain]] [[Henry Avery]] noted in the ''[[Fancy]]''{{'}}s log that his [[Boat|ship]] had been stilled on a windless [[ocean]] for eight days. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Prequel to The Curse of the Black Spot (webcast)}})

In [[1873]], [[Professor]] [[Cornelius Perkins]] and [[Dr]] [[Hugo Somesby]], reaching the thirty-sixth day of their expedition to the [[Amazon]] [[rainforest]], disappeared while searching for the legendary [[Lost City of Gold]]. In Perkins' final [[diary]] entry that day, he described "a [[frog]] the size of a [[rhinoceros]]" with the leg of one of the natives in its mouth. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Valley of Death (audio story)}})

In [[1876]], [[Queen Victoria]] became [[Empress of India]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}})

In [[1931]], the [[Empire State Building]] opened despite earlier [[Dalek]] [[Invasion of Manhattan|interference]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})

In [[1957]], the first ''[[Sputnik]]'' [[satellite]] was launched by the [[Soviet Union]], but was destroyed before it completed its first [[orbit]]. Neither the launch nor the satellite's destruction was ever made public. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|First Frontier (novel)}})

Circa [[1970s]], {{Delgado}} was finally captured by [[UNIT]]. Later, after having defeated the Master, the [[Third Doctor]] celebrated [[May Day]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Dæmons (TV story)}})

In [[1984]], the [[Malus]] was re-awakened. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Awakening (TV story)}})
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