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THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 1

May 1 in history

1187 — The Springs of Cresson

1 May 1187 — a small force of Templars and Hospitallers charges a far larger Muslim army and is annihilated. The military orders’ recklessness bleeds the kingdom of its best knights weeks before the reckoning.

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1960 — U-2 down over Sverdlovsk

1 May 1960 — A missile finally reaches the “untouchable” spy plane; pilot Francis Gary Powers is paraded before cameras. Two weeks later the Paris summit collapses on its opening morning, Khrushchev demanding an apology Eisenhower will not give.

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