Historical Events In May - 01

1986  Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph on May - 01.  

1986  Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap on this day in history.  

1986  Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole on this day in history.  

1987  On this day in history british Customs seizes Air Canada jet at Heathrow Airport after discovering a major hashish shipment from India; plane released after Air Canada pays substantial fine.  

1987  On May - 01 pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun  

1988  IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3 on this day in history.  

1988  On this day in history carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer  

1989  On May - 01 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to the public  

1989  US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non-discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting on this day in history.  

1989  David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered on this day in history.  

1990  On this day in history sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62  

1991  On this day in history a's Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal (vs Yankees)  

1991  Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy on May - 01.  

1991  Angola's civil war ends on this day in history.  

1991  Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge on May - 01.  

1991  Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base on May - 01.  

1991  Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual &heterosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC on this day in history.  

1991  On May - 01 richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies  

1992  Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior on May - 01.  

1992  Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base on this day in history.  

1993  On May - 01 bomb attack on Sri Lankan President (26 die)  

1993  Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50 on May - 01.  

1994  Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road) on May - 01.  

1994  Tornado &hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed on this day in history.  

1994  On this day in history ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34  

1995  Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia vs West Indies at Sabina Park on May - 01.  

1996  Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1997  Toni Blair elected PM of UK on May - 01.  

1997  On this day in history bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40  

1998  Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver dies today in Pomona, California, at age 62 on this day in history.  

1999  On May - 01 the body of British mountaineer George Mallory is found on Mount Everest almost 75 years after he disappeared on a climbing expedition.  

2002  Indian heat wave in India killing 1,030 people on this day in history.  

2005  A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, and leaves at least 25 people dead and more than 30 others injured. Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad on May - 01.  

2006  On May - 01 bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields.  

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1218  On May - 01 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  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on this day in history.  

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 May - 01.  

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

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on May - 01.  

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

1118  On this day in history 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  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  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on May - 01.