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Did you know...

Four kiʻi at the Kāneiolouma Complex

... that the ancient Hawaiian village known as the Kāneiolouma Complex (pictured) is across the street from a popular beach on the island of Kauaʻi?
... that in Vladivostok, the Korean enclave Shinhanchon served as a hub of the Korean independence movement?
... that the crater lake produced by the 1628–1627 BCE eruption of Mount Aniakchak generated one of the largest floods of the last 10,000 years?
... that a Work for Curaçao candidate in the 2021 Curaçao general election received 427 votes despite being dead?
... that the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Here I Go Again" contains multiple ABBA references?
... that Weston Turville Castle was slighted on Henry II's orders after the Revolt of 1173–1174?
... that when offered a chance to repent before being burnt at the stake, one crypto-Jew allegedly told his tormentors to "throw more wood on the fire"?
... that according to witnesses, the plutonium charge in the bomb used in the nuclear weapons test Gerboise Verte was transported in an economy car?
... that Ukrainian Sheriffs went to summer school after being shot?

On this day...

May 1: Beltane and Samhain in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Maharashtra Day in Maharashtra, India (1960); Loyalty Day in the United States

Empire State Building

305 – Diocletian and Maximian retired as co-rulers of the Roman Empire, being succeeded by Galerius and Constantius Chlorus.
1625 – Dutch–Portuguese War: Portuguese and Spanish forces recaptured the Brazilian city of Bahia, which had previously been captured by the Dutch Republic.
1931 – New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.
1941 – Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.
1945 – Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.

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