Template:On this day/May 1

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

May 1:

• 1781 – Siege of Pensacola: The Spanish installed six 24-pounders in their advance battery.
• 1878 – Jonathan Walker died.
• 1962 – Pat Dodson's advertising agency was reorganized and incorporated as Dodson, Craddock & Born.
• 2002 – Soccer complex corruption scandal: Governor Jeb Bush suspended indicted Escambia County Commissioners W. D. Childers, Willie Junior, Mike Bass and Terry Smith.