Historical Events In May - 01

1934  Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1935  On this day in history boulder Dam completed   

1935  On this day in history canada's first silver dollar is circulated   

1935  On May - 01 royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V   

1936  On this day in history emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades   

1936  On May - 01 fBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis   

1937  On May - 01 fDR signs act of neutrality   

1937  Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on May - 01.   

1939  On May - 01 batman Comics hit the street   

1939  On May - 01 pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)   

1940  140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship on May - 01.   

1940  The 1940 Olympics are cancelled on May - 01.   

1941  On this day in history "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York   

1941  On this day in history allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on May - 01.   

1941  On this day in history german assault on Tobruk   

1941  Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY on May - 01.   

1941  John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1942  Japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India on May - 01.   

1942  Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star" on this day in history.   

1942  On May - 01 townsville put on invasion alert   

1943  On May - 01 final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins.   

1943  Food rationing begins in US on this day in history.   

1943  On this day in history german plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta   

1943  On this day in history german Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes   

1943  On May - 01 johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)   

1944  Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight on May - 01.   

1944  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)   

1944  On this day in history surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails   

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide on May - 01.   

1945  On this day in history admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government   

1945  Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast on May - 01.   

1945  On May - 01 australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan   

1945  On May - 01 general Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms   

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1218  On May - 01 birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)   

1218  Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291) was born on May - 01.   

1238  On May - 01 birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on this day in history.   

1493  On May - 01 birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)   

1545  On this day in history birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist   

1567  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on this day in history.   

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on May - 01.   

0408  On this day in history death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)   

1118  On May - 01 death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)   

1171  On this day in history dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies   

1240  On this day in history death of jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on this day in history.   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on May - 01.   

1447  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  On May - 01 hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies