Historical Events In May - 01

1959  Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title on May - 01.  

1959  On May - 01 streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.  

1959  West Germany introduces 5 day work week on this day in history.  

1959  On this day in history oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies  

1960  On this day in history cIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk  

1960  On this day in history gary Powers, in a U2 spy plane, shot down and captured by the USSR  

1960  India's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states on May - 01.  

1960  Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis on May - 01.  

1961  Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba on May - 01.  

1961  Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) on this day in history.  

1961  Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain on this day in history.  

1961  The first US airplane hijacked to Cuba on May - 01.  

1962  On this day in history jFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)  

1962  On this day in history the first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara  

1963  Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands on this day in history.  

1963  The first American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest on this day in history.  

1964  The first BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) on May - 01.  

1965  USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon on May - 01.  

1965  On May - 01 leo Spies, composer, dies at 65  

1966  On May - 01 last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)  

1966  Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational on this day in history.  

1966  On this day in history radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting  

1966  US troops shooting targets in Cambodia on this day in history.  

1967  Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua on this day in history.  

1967  On this day in history elvis Presley &Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas  

1967  On this day in history 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  

1967  Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank on May - 01.  

1967  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer)  

1968  Legoland, in Denmark, opens on this day in history.  

1968  Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1969  On May - 01 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC  

1969  On May - 01 pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting  

1969  Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1971  On May - 01 amtrak railroad begins operation  

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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 this day in history birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)  

1285  On this day in history birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)  

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  On May - 01 birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter  

1577  On this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer  

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on this day in history.  

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

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on this day in history.  

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  On May - 01 death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered  

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