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Page 11: Historical Events In May - 01

Sunday, 13 July 2025

1959  On May - 01 floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1959  Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1959  On this day in history west Germany introduces 5 day work week  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1959  On May - 01 oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1960  CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk on May - 01.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1960  Gary Powers, in a U2 spy plane, shot down and captured by the USSR on May - 01.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1960  On May - 01 india's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1960  On May - 01 pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1961  Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba on May - 01.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1961  Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) on May - 01.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1961  Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1961  The first US airplane hijacked to Cuba on May - 01.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1962  JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1962  On May - 01 the first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1963  On this day in history indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1963  The first American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1964  On this day in history the first BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1965  USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1965  Leo Spies, composer, dies at 65 on May - 01.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  On this day in history last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  On May - 01 radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  US troops shooting targets in Cambodia on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1967  Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1967  On this day in history elvis Presley &Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1967  In Greece a 5.75-6.0 earthquake in the mountainous area of northern Arta Province, 9 were killed, 56 injured, and over 100 houses destroyed on May - 01.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1967  On this day in history jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1967  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1968  On May - 01 legoland, in Denmark, opens  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1968  Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 on May - 01.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1969  On this day in history 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1969  Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1969  On May - 01 ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1971  On May - 01 amtrak railroad begins operation  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In May - 01

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1218  On this day in history birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1218  On May - 01 birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1285  On this day in history birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1493  On this day in history birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1545  On this day in history birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1567  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1577  On this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In May - 01

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0408  On May - 01 death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1118  On this day in history death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1171  On May - 01 dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1308  On this day in history death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1447  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on May - 01.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1456  On May - 01 hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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