MAY 1, 2026

FRIDAY
Min Wage Hourly$7.25
Median Home Price$408,800.00
Gas Price Avg$4.09
Bread Price Avg$2.05
Movie Ticket Avg$12.50
First Class Stamp$0.78
Milk Price Avg$4.07
Spy Close$720.65
Qqq Close$674.15
Dia Close$495.02
Screen Releases & Special Events on May 1, 2026
Films, performances and special screenings from this day. Open a card for its story, date details and trivia.
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1 Deep Water
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Deep Water
2 The Devil Wears Prada 2
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The Devil Wears Prada 2
3 Swapped
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Swapped
4 β€œWuthering Heights”
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β€œWuthering Heights”
5 Hokum
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Hokum
6 Boulevard
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Boulevard
7 That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea
8 You're Dating a Narcissist!
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You're Dating a Narcissist!
9 Beau Is Afraid
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Beau Is Afraid
10 Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir
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Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir

May 1, 2026 Trivia

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Television from this era Β· May 1, 2026
The Rookie poster
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The Rookie
Grey's Anatomy poster
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Grey's Anatomy
The Simpsons poster
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The Simpsons
Fallout poster
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Fallout
NCIS poster
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NCIS
Criminal Minds poster
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Criminal Minds
Family Guy poster
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Family Guy
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Law & Order

Exact-date daily brief

May 1, 2026

May 1, 2026 was the day Iran pushed a new negotiation proposal through Pakistani mediators, London police charged the Golders Green suspect with attempted murder, and jihadists overran a base outside Tessalit in Mali. Venezuela al...

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Headlines From May 1, 2026

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  • Headline: Iran Sent a New Proposal Through Pakistani Mediators. Impact: The move kept diplomacy alive even while the conflict was still being tracked through wartime updates.
  • Headline: London Police Charged the Golders Green Attack Suspect. Impact: It turned one of the week's most visible antisemitic attacks into a formal criminal case on the capsule date.
  • Headline: JNIM Took Over a Base Outside Tessalit. Impact: The seizure showed the Mali conflict was still widening while global attention stayed fixed on the Middle East.
  • Headline: Venezuela Raised the Minimum Income Package. Impact: It captured the day's clearest business-and-economy response to continuing inflation pressure and wage protests.
  • Headline: Deep Water Led the Exact-Date Movie Lane. Impact: It keeps the movie lane anchored to a real capsule-date release instead of fallback catalog content.
  • Headline: Tan cerca de ti, nace el amor Opened the Same-Day TV List. Impact: It gives the capsule an exact-date television anchor alongside the diplomacy and market stories.
  • Headline: SPY Closed at $720.65. Impact: The close grounds the capsule in the day's actual market tape while geopolitical and inflation stories dominated the news.
  • Headline: JJ Wetherholt Card 144 Posted a 2,056 Print Run. Impact: It gives the reviewed trading-card lane a same-day collectible tied to the capsule date instead of a generic fallback.

Market Close Snapshot

Recorded close: Selected market trackers and technology leaders. Weekends and holidays use the latest prior trading close.
Rank #1
SPY
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Closing price
$720.65
Price date
2026-05-01

SPY closed at $720.65 on 2026-05-01.

Rank #2
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust
Closing price
$674.15
Price date
2026-05-01

QQQ closed at $674.15 on 2026-05-01.

Rank #3
DIA
SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust
Closing price
$495.02
Price date
2026-05-01

DIA closed at $495.02 on 2026-05-01.

Rank #4
NVDA
NVIDIA Corporation
Closing price
$198.45
Price date
2026-05-01

NVDA closed at $198.45 on 2026-05-01.

Rank #5
MSFT
Microsoft Corporation
Closing price
$414.44
Price date
2026-05-01

MSFT closed at $414.44 on 2026-05-01.

Rank #6
GOOGL
Alphabet Inc.
Closing price
$385.69
Price date
2026-05-01

GOOGL closed at $385.69 on 2026-05-01.