Page 10: Historical Events In May - 01

1947  Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, is recorded as becoming 3th director of the CIA.   

1947  Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed   

1948  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   

1948  Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered.   

1949  Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune).   

1950  Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade   

1950  New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China   

1950  Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific)   

1951  600000 march for peace and freedom in Germany   

1951  Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir.   

1951  Mickey Mantle's inaugural homerun   

1951  The 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group sent to join United Nations forces in Korea   

1952  Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada.   

1952  Mr Potato Head, introduced   

1952  TWA introduces tourist class.   

1952  William Fox, [Fried], US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73   

1954  HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies)   

1954  Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50.   

1957  Larry King's inaugural radio broadcast.   

1957  US give Poland credit of $95 million.   

1957  Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km.   

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

1958  Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai.   

1958  Arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina.   

1959  Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title.   

1959  Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses   

1959  West Germany introduces 5 day work week   

1959  Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies   

1960  CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk   

1960  Gary Powers, in a U2 spy plane, shot down and captured by the USSR   

1960  India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states   

1960  Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis.   

1961  Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba.   

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

1218  On May - 01 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 May - 01.   

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 this day in history.   

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 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 this day in history.   

1277  On May - 01 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  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  On this day in history hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies