The May 01:
1987 Pope John Paul II beatified Edith Stein , a Jewish Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz (Poland).
1988: in Germany, Hannover-Würzburg train than speed record of 407 km / h.
1989: Greenland adopted its coat of arms.
1989: elected, democratic elections, after the Fall of the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, General Andres Rodriguez Pedotti.
1991: In Bangladesh, Ganges River up 20 m, flooding the entire Delta . Half a million people are evacuated.
1991: in the Vatican, Pope John Paul II publishes the encyclical Centesimus Annus the centenary of the De Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII.
1994: at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola (Italy), b rasileño three-time Formula 1 Ayrton Senna died in competition for the Grand Prix of San Marino.
1995: Croatia launches Operation Flash War of Independence Croatian.
1999: Nauru becomes member of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
1999: in the U.S.. UU. debuts in three pilot programs cartoon series SpongeBob TV.
1999: Entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam .
2000: Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is reelected president.
2000: the U.S. government removed Selective Availability that degraded the GPS signal.
2001: in the U.S.. UU., Thomas Blanton Jr. is the second member of the Ku Klux Klan who is convicted of the bomb in Street Baptist Church, 16 in Birmingham, that killed four black girls.
2002: Bangladesh in a ferry sinking in the river Meghna. 400 dead.
2003: Turkey an earthquake (6.4 on the Richter scale), leaving 177 dead.
2003: in the U.S.. UU., Aboard the warship Abraham Lincoln, President George W. Bush says his "Mission Accomplished", giving officially terminated the Iraq invasion of 2003.
2004: at the residence of President of Ireland in Dublin, ten countries join the European Union: Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and the Czech Republic (see Enlargement of the European Union).
2006: in "a day without Mexicans, millions of Latino immigrants in the United States do not work, joining in a boycott work both in this country and throughout Latin America and marches against the immigration laws with the aim of recognize their rights as individuals, work, education of their children and medical and legalize them through a comprehensive immigration reform in the country.
2006: The Puerto Rican government goes bankrupt, forcing the closure of schools and other agencies.
2006: Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalized the oil there.
2007: in the capital of Palencia (Spain) took place most destructive gas explosion in the last ten years in Spain . There were nine casualties and considerable damage in six blocks of flats.
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