1 May -- On This Day [multiple clips]

1945: Germany announces Hitler is dead; the German Fuhrer is killed in the Reich Chancery of Berlin fighting the Soviets, according to German radio. Other video and audio from the BBC news archive, WWII and 1950-2004 includes 1982: RAF bombs Port Stanley; British planes attack two airstrips near the capital of the Falkland Islands in the war to rid the islands of Argentine forces. 1994: Race ace Senna killed in car crash; the world-class Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna dies in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Italy. 1973: Thousands strike over pay and prices; more than a million workers join a one-day strike in protest at the government's pay restraint policy and price rises. 1961: Victorious Castro bans elections; Fidel Castro declares Cuba a socialist nation saying, "The revolution has no time for elections." 2000: May Day violence on London streets; hundreds of anti-capitalist demonstrators fight running battles with police -- the Cenotaph and statue of Winston Churchill are defaced with graffiti.