Historical Events In May - 01

1959  Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title on this day in history.  

1959  On this day in history 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  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.  

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

1960  On May - 01 india's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states  

1960  Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis on May - 01.  

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

1961  Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) on May - 01.  

1961  On May - 01 tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain  

1961  The first US airplane hijacked to Cuba on this day in history.  

1962  JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA) on this day in history.  

1962  The first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara on this day in history.  

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

1963  On May - 01 the first American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest  

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

1965  USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon on this day in history.  

1965  On this day in history leo Spies, composer, dies at 65  

1966  On this day in history last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)  

1966  Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational on May - 01.  

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 May - 01 elvis Presley &Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas  

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.  

1967  On May - 01 jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank  

1967  Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer) on this day in history.  

1968  On this day in history legoland, in Denmark, opens  

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

1969  43 Unification church couples wed in NYC on May - 01.  

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

1969  On May - 01 ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56  

1971  Amtrak railroad begins operation on May - 01.  

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1218  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on May - 01.  

1218  Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291) was born on this day in history.  

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on May - 01.  

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.  

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

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1456  On May - 01 hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies