Historical Events In May - 01

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

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

1959  On May - 01 west Germany introduces 5 day work week  

1959  Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies on this day in history.  

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 May - 01.  

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

1960  Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1961  On this day in history the first US airplane hijacked to Cuba  

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

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

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

1966  Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) on this day in history.  

1966  On May - 01 mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational  

1966  Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting on this day in history.  

1966  On May - 01 uS troops shooting targets in Cambodia  

1967  Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua on May - 01.  

1967  On this day in history 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  Legoland, in Denmark, opens on this day in history.  

1968  Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 on May - 01.  

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

1971  Amtrak railroad begins operation on this day in history.  

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1218  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1238  On May - 01 birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)  

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 this day in history.  

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on May - 01.  

1567  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on May - 01.  

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

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on May - 01.  

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

1171  On May - 01 dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies  

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on this day in history.  

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on this day in history.  

1308  On this day in history death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered  

1447  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on May - 01.  

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on May - 01.