What happened on May 1? There are more than 319 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About May 1
May 1 is the 122nd day of the year 2024. There are 244 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 18th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Graham, Texas 76450 sunrise occured at 06:44 AM and sunset occured at 08:18 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Taurus. The modern birthstone for this month is Emerald while the mystical birthstone is Sapphire.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 273 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For May 1
- 305Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
- 880The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
- 1328Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
- 1576Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1707The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1751The first cricket match is played in America.
- 1753Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
- 1759Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
- 1776Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
- 1778American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
- 1785Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaii, defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- 1786Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
- 1794War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
- 1840The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
- 1844Hong Kong Police Force, the world’s second, Asia’s first modern police force is established.
- 1846The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
- 1851Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
- 1852The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
- 1862American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture of New Orleans.
- 1863American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
- 1865The Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance
- 1869The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
- 1875Alexandra Palace reopens after the 1873 fire burnt it down.
- 1884Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
- 1884Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
- 1885The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.
- 1886Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day culminating in the Haymarket Affair.
- 1893The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- 1894Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 1898Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay – the United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
- 1900The Scofield mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
- 1901The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
- 1915The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
- 1925The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
- 1925The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
- 1927The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
- 1927The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
- 1930The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
- 1931The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
- 1933The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
- 1940The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
- 1941World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
- 1944200 Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens as reprisals for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi
- 1945The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste.
- 1945World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has “fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany”.
- 1946Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
- 1946The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
- 1947Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano; 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
- 1948The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
- 1950Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
- 1956A doctor in Japan reports an “epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system”, marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
- 1956The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
- 195734 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire England.
- 1960Cold War: U-2 incident – Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
- 1960Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
- 1961The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
- 1965Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
- 1970Protests erupt in Seattle, Washington, following the announcement by U.S. President Richard Nixon that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral country.
- 1971Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
- 1974The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expulsed from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
- 197736 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
- 1978Japan’s Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
- 1982Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
- 1982The 1982 World’s Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
- 1983Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
- 1987Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- 1989Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 1990The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
- 1991Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own record.
- 1994Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
- 1995Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
- 2001Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of “a state of rebellion”, hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
- 20032003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the “Mission Accomplished” speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended”.
- 2004Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
- 2006The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
- 2007the Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department’s response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
- 2008The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
- 2009Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
- 2011Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
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Who Were Born On May 1?
- 1218John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)
- 1218Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)
- 1225Jean de Joinville, French writer (d. 1317)
- 1285Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)
- 1582Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (d. 1643)
- 1585Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (d. 1612)
- 1591Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (d. 1666)
- 1594John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
- 1672Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (d. 1719)
- 1730Sir Joshua Rowley, 1st Baronet, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1790)
- 1738King Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. 1819)
- 1764Benjamin Henry Latrobe, English born American architect (d. 1820)
- 1769Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852)
- 1803James Clarence Mangan, Irish poet (d. 1849)
- 1824Alexander William Williamson, English chemist (d. 1904)
- 1825George Inness, American painter (d. 1894)
- 1825Johann Jakob Balmer, Swiss mathetician (d. 1898)
- 1827Jules Breton, French painter (d. 1906)
- 1829Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1904)
- 1829José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (d. 1877)
- 1830Guido Gezelle, Flemish poet and priest (d. 1899)
- 1831Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)
- 1847Henry Demarest Lloyd, American journalist (d. 1903)
- 1848Adelsteen Normann, Norwegian painter (d. 1919)
- 1850Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (d. 1942)
- 1851Laza Lazarević, Serbian writer and psychiatrist (d. 1891)
- 1852Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)
- 1852Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934)
- 1855Cecilia Beaux, American painter (d. 1942)
- 1857Theo Van Gogh, Dutch art dealer (d. 1891)
- 1862Marcel Prévost, French author and dramatist (d. 1941)
- 1864Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother’s Day (d. 1948)
- 1872Harry Leon Wilson, American novelist (d. 1939)
- 1872Sidónio Pais, Portuguese military and politician (d. 1918)
- 1874Romaine Brooks, American painter (d. 1970)
- 1881Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (d. 1955)
- 1884Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964)
- 1885Clément Pansaers, Belgian poet (d. 1922)
- 1885Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor, painter (d. 1973)
- 1887Alan Gordon Cunningham, British army officer (d. 1983)
- 1896Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947)
- 1896J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987)
- 1896Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984)
- 1900Ignazio Silone, Italian author and Politician (d. 1978)
- 1901Antal Szerb, Hungarian author and historian (d. 1945)
- 1901Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985)
- 1901Sterling Allen Brown, American professor, poet and literary critic (d. 1989)
- 1905Henry Koster, German film director (d. 1988)
- 1905Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (d. 1982)
- 1906Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (d. 1983)
- 1907Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)
- 1907Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney (d. 2007)
- 1908Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (d. 1968)
- 1908Morris Kline, American mathematician (d. 1992)
- 1909Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize, 9 times nominee for the Nobel Prize (d. 1990)
- 1910Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Astronomer/astro-physicist; noted UFO investigator (d. 1986)
- 1912Otto Kretschmer, German U-Boat commander (d. 1998)
- 1913Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1913Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
- 1915Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
- 1916Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
- 1917Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (d. 2001)
- 1917Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress
- 1917John Beradino, American actor and baseball player (d. 1996)
- 1918Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977)
- 1918Jack Paar, American television host (d. 2004)
- 1919Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (d. 2005)
- 1919Lewis Hill, American pacifist and founder of Pacifica Radio (d. 1957)
- 1919Manna Dey, Indian singer
- 1919Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Prime Minister of Morocco
- 1921Vladimir Colin, Romanian fantasy and science fiction short story writer and novelist (d. 1991)
- 1923Joseph Heller, American novelist (d. 1999)
- 1924Art Fleming, American game show host (d. 1995)
- 1924Karel Kachyňa, Czech film director (d. 2004)
- 1924Terry Southern, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
- 1925Chuck Bednarik, American football player
- 1925Sardar Fazlul Karim, Bangladeshi scholar and philosopher
- 1925Scott Carpenter, American astronaut
- 1926Peter Lax, Hungarian mathematician
- 1927Gary Bertini, Israeli conductor (d. 18 March)
- 1928Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racer (d. 2002)
- 1929Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician (d. 2009)
- 1929Sonny James, American country music singer and songwriter
- 1930Little Walter, American blues singer (d. 1968)
- 1930Richard Riordan, American politician, former mayor of Los Angeles
- 1934Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
- 1934Shirley Horn, American jazz singer and pianist (d. 2005)
- 1935Ann Robinson, American actress
- 1937Una Stubbs, English actress
- 1939Judy Collins, American folk singer
- 1939Max Robinson, American broadcast journalist (d. 1988)
- 1939Victor Davies, Canadian composer
- 1940Bobbie Ann Mason, American novelist and literary critic
- 1940Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
- 1942Stephen Macht, American actor
- 1943Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician (d. 2004)
- 1944Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
- 1945Rita Coolidge, American singer
- 1946Joanna Lumley, English actress
- 1946John Woo, Hong Kong director
- 1947Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer
- 1948Patricia Hill Collins, American black-feminist and scholar
- 1949Jim Clench, Canadian bassist (April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive) (d. 2010)
- 1949Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers
- 1949Tim Hodgkinson, English composer and musician (Henry Cow)
- 1950Dann Florek, American actor
- 1950Danny McGrain, Scottish footballer
- 1950John Diehl, American actor
- 1951Antony Worrall Thompson, English celebrity chef
- 1951Sally Mann, American photographer
- 1953Glen Ballard, American songwriter and record producer
- 1954Joel Rosenberg, science fiction author
- 1954Ray Parker Jr., American singer and songwriter
- 1955Martin O'Donnell, American composer
- 1955Nick Feldman, English musician
- 1956Catherine Frot, French actress
- 1956Phil Foglio, American cartoonist and comic book artist
- 1957Kow Otani, Japanese composer
- 1959Lawrence Seeff, South African cricketer
- 1959Yasmina Reza, French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter
- 1960Steve Cauthen, American jockey
- 1961Marilyn Milian, current judge on The People’s Court
- 1962Maia Morgenstern, Romanian actress
- 1962Ted Sundquist, General Manager of the Denver Broncos
- 1964Lady Sarah Chatto, daughter of Princess Margaret
- 1964Yvonne van Gennip, Dutch speed skater
- 1966Charlie Schlatter, American actor
- 1966Olaf Thon, German football player
- 1967Tim McGraw, American musician
- 1968D'arcy Wretzky, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
- 1968Denise Masino, American Female bodybuilder
- 1968Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
- 1968Sol Kyung-gu, South Korean actor
- 1969Billy Owens, American basketball player
- 1969Wes Anderson, American director and writer
- 1971Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor
- 1971Ethan Albright, American football player
- 1972Earl Va'a, Samoan rugby player
- 1972Julie Benz, American actress
- 1973Curtis Martin, American football player
- 1973Mike Jesse, German footballer
- 1973Oliver Neuville, German footballer
- 1974Kellie Crawford, Australian singer (Hi-5)
- 1975Alexey Smertin, Russian footballer
- 1975Austin Croshere, American basketball player
- 1975Jodhi May, British actress
- 1975Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
- 1976Darius McCrary, American actor
- 1977Vera Lischka, Austrian swimmer, politician
- 1978Nick Traina, American singer (Link 80) (d. 1997)
- 1978Sachie Hara, Japanese actress
- 1979Ben Easter, American actor
- 1979Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
- 1979Michael Harvey, British musical artist
- 1980Ana Claudia Talancón, Mexican actress
- 1980Jan Heylen, Belgian racing driver
- 1980Jay Reatard, American musician (d. 2010)
- 1981Alexander Hleb, Belarusian footballer
- 1981Derek Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
- 1981Wes Welker, American football player
- 1982Darijo Srna, Croatian football player
- 1982Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player
- 1983Alain Bernard, French swimmer
- 1983The Human Tornado (Craig Williams), American professional wrestler
- 1984Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
- 1984David Backes, American ice hockey player
- 1984Farah Fath, American actress
- 1984Keiichiro Koyama, Japanese musician (NEWS)
- 1984Mark Seaby, Australian Rules footballer
- 1984Patrick Eaves, American ice hockey player
- 1985Drew Sidora, American actress
- 1986Adam Casey, Australian footballer
- 1986Brent Stanton, Australian rules footballer
- 1986Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1987Amir Johnson, American basketball player
- 1987Glen Coffee, American football player
- 1987Marcus Drum, Australian Rules Football
- 1987Matt Di Angelo, English actor
- 1987Shahar Pe'er, Israeli tennis player
- 1988Anushka Sharma, Indian actress and model
- 1988Nicholas Braun, American actor
- 1989Tim Urban, American singer
- 1990Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress
- 1991Creagen Dow, American actor
- 1997Ariel Gade, American actress
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Who Died On May 1?
- 408Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)
- 1118Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c.1080)
- 1277Stephen Uroš I of Serbia (b. 1223)
- 1308Albert I of Habsburg (b. 1255)
- 1539Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503)
- 1555Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
- 1572Pope Saint Pius V (b. 1504)
- 1731Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
- 1738Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c.1669)
- 1772Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719)
- 1813Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768)
- 1856John Wilbur, American religious leader, Quaker minister (b. 1774)
- 1873David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (b. 1813)
- 1899Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)
- 1904Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
- 1913John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
- 1920Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
- 1935Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
- 1937Snitz Edwards, American actor (b. 1868)
- 1943Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader and founder of Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
- 1945Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (b. 1897)
- 1963Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, father of the Filipino language (b. 1879)
- 1965Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (b. 1911)
- 1968Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician (b. 1886)
- 1968Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b. 1895)
- 1970Crown Prince Euimin, Crown Prince of Korea (b. 1897)
- 1973Asger Jorn, Danish painter (b. 1914)
- 1976Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (b. 1939)
- 1976T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908)
- 1978Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b. 1903)
- 1982William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
- 1985Denise Robins (aka Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane) British romance novelist (b. 1897)
- 1986Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1916)
- 1986Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (b. 1905)
- 1989Douglass Watson, American actor (b. 1921)
- 1989Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912)
- 1990Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor (b. 1926)
- 1992Sharon Redd, American house music and urban contemporary singer (b. 1945)
- 1993Pierre Bérégovoy, French Prime Minister (b. 1925)
- 1993Ranasinghe Premadasa, President of Sri Lanka (b. 1924)
- 1994Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)
- 1996Luana Patten, American actress (b. 1938)
- 1998Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
- 2000Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2003Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960)
- 2006Big Hawk, American rapper (b. 1969)
- 2006Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
- 2006Rob Lacey, Christian author (b. 1962)
- 2008Anthony Mamo, Malta’s first President (b. 1909)
- 2008Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (b. 1956)
- 2008Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, last surviving member of the 20 July Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944 (b. 1917)
- 2009Danny Gans, American entertainer (b. 1956)
- 2010Helen Wagner, American Actress (b. 1918)
- 2010Rob McConnell, Canadian jazz composer/arranger and valve trombonist (b. 1935)
- 2011Ted Lowe, English snooker commentator (b. 1920)
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