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Historical Events In May - 01

Sunday, 01 October 2023

1959  Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1959  West Germany introduces 5 day work week on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1959  On this day in history oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies  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 this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1960  Gary Powers, in a U2 spy plane, shot down and captured by the USSR on this day in history.  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 WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1960  Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis on May - 01.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1961  Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba on this day in history.  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 WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1961  On May - 01 tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1961  The first US airplane hijacked to Cuba on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1962  The first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1963  On May - 01 the first American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1964  The first BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) on this day in history.  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 WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1965  On this day in history leo Spies, composer, dies at 65  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 WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational on May - 01.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  On this day in history radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1967  On May - 01 elvis Presley &Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas  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 this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1967  On May - 01 jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1968  On this day in history legoland, in Denmark, opens  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1968  Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1969  43 Unification church couples wed in NYC on May - 01.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1969  On this day in history pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting  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 WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1971  Amtrak railroad begins operation on May - 01.  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  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on May - 01.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1218  Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on May - 01.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on May - 01.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1567  On May - 01 birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In May - 01

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0408  On this day in history death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1118  On May - 01 death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on this day in history.  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 May - 01.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on May - 01.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1447  On this day in history louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies  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 WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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