Historical Events In May - 01

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

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 May - 01 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 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 May - 01 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  JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA) on May - 01.  

1962  The first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara on May - 01.  

1963  On May - 01 indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands  

1963  On this day in history the first American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest  

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

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

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

1966  On May - 01 radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting  

1966  On this day in history uS troops shooting targets in Cambodia  

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  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  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 May - 01.  

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

1969  Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting on May - 01.  

1969  On this day in history ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56  

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

1493  On this day in history 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 May - 01.  

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

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 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  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on this day in history.