Page 11: Historical Events In May - 01

1959  Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title on May - 01.   

1959  On this day in history streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.   

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

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 May - 01.   

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

1960  On this day in history india's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states   

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)   

1961  Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain on this day in history.   

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

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

1962  On this day in history the first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara   

1963  On this day in history indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands   

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

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

1965  On May - 01 uSSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon   

1965  Leo Spies, composer, dies at 65 on May - 01.   

1966  Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) on May - 01.   

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  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  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 May - 01.   

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  Legoland, in Denmark, opens on May - 01.   

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

1969  On this day in history 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC   

1969  Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting on this day in history.   

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 this day in history 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  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 this day in history.   

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on May - 01.   

1545  On May - 01 birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist   

1567  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on this day in history.   

1577  On this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

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 May - 01.   

1240  On this day in history death of jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals   

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

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

1447  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

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