Historical Events In May - 01

1959  On May - 01 floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title  

1959  Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses on May - 01.  

1959  West Germany introduces 5 day work week on May - 01.  

1959  Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies on May - 01.  

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.  

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

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

1960  On May - 01 pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis  

1961  On this day in history fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba  

1961  On May - 01 pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)  

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1961  Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain on May - 01.  

1961  On May - 01 the first US airplane hijacked to Cuba  

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

1962  On May - 01 the first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara  

1963  Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands on May - 01.  

1963  The first American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest on May - 01.  

1964  On this day in history the first BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)  

1965  On this day in history uSSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon  

1965  On May - 01 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  Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting on May - 01.  

1966  On May - 01 uS troops shooting targets in Cambodia  

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

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

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  On May - 01 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC  

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

1969  Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 on May - 01.  

1971  Amtrak railroad begins operation on this day in history.  

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

1577  On May - 01 birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer  

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

1118  Death of Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080) on May - 01.  

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on May - 01.  

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on May - 01.  

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  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on May - 01.  

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