On This Day — May 1

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on May 1.

• 2024: The 2024 Loblaw boycott, a Canadian boycott against retail corporation and grocer Loblaw Companies, begins.
• 2019: Naxalite attack in Gadchiroli district of India: Sixteen army soldiers, including a driver, killed in an IED blast. Naxals targeted an anti-Naxal operations team.
• 2019: Naruhito ascends to the throne of Japan succeeding his father Akihito, beginning the Reiwa period.
• 2018: Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) resumes the Deir ez-Zor campaign in order to clear the remnants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border.
• 2011: Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.

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