Historical Events In May - 01

1945  Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII on this day in history.  

1945  Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg on this day in history.  

1945  On this day in history soviet army reach Rostock  

1945  Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

1946  Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander on May - 01.  

1946  On May - 01 mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year"  

1946  On May - 01 edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71  

1947  On this day in history lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA  

1947  Radar for commercial &private planes first demonstrated on May - 01.  

1947  Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of the CIA on this day in history.  

1947  Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed on this day in history.  

1948  On this day in history glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"  

1948  North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea on May - 01.  

1948  On May - 01 christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered  

1949  On May - 01 gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)  

1950  On May - 01 mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade  

1950  On this day in history new marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China  

1950  On May - 01 pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers &Hammerstein (South Pacific)  

1951  600,000 march for peace &freedom in Germany on May - 01.  

1951  Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir on May - 01.  

1951  Mickey Mantle's first homerun on this day in history.  

1951  The 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group sent to join United Nations forces in Korea on this day in history.  

1952  On May - 01 marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada  

1952  On May - 01 mr Potato Head, introduced  

1952  On May - 01 tWA introduces tourist class  

1952  On this day in history william Fox, [Fried], US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73  

1954  HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies) on this day in history.  

1954  On May - 01 tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50  

1957  Larry King's first radio broadcast on May - 01.  

1957  On this day in history uS give Poland credit of $95 million  

1957  On this day in history vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km  

1957  Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82 on May - 01.  

1958  Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai on May - 01.  

1958  Arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina on this day in history.  

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

1218  On this day in history birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)  

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on this day in history.  

1285  On May - 01 birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)  

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on May - 01.  

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on this day in history.  

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  Death of Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080) on this day in history.  

1171  On May - 01 dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies  

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on May - 01.  

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

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

1447  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on May - 01.  

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on May - 01.