Historical Events In May - 01

1883  On May - 01 amsterdam World's Fair opens  

1883  On this day in history "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show  

1884  On this day in history construction begins on Chicago's first skyscraper (10 stories)  

1884  On May - 01 construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)  

1884  On May - 01 felipe Boero, composer  

1885  On May - 01 maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands  

1885  On May - 01 maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth  

1886  On May - 01 uS general strike for 8 hour day, begins  

1886  Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens) on May - 01.  

1887  Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48) on May - 01.  

1889  Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) on this day in history.  

1889  On May - 01 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International  

1891  Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3 on May - 01.  

1892  US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Fransisco Bay on May - 01.  

1892  On May - 01 uS Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay  

1892  On this day in history howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)  

1892  On May - 01 willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89  

1893  World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago on this day in history.  

1895  On May - 01 leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)  

1896  Nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65 on May - 01.  

1898  George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila on this day in history.  

1898  On this day in history eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)  

1898  On this day in history alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81  

1900  Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield UT on this day in history.  

1900  Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah on this day in history.  

1900  Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine) on this day in history.  

1901  On May - 01 pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo  

1901  Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox on this day in history.  

1902  John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 on May - 01.  

1903  On May - 01 arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies  

1904  AntonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62 on May - 01.  

1905  Leila Hyams, NYC, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap) on this day in history.  

1906  Troops in Paris make many arrests during a May Day protest on this day in history.  

1906  On this day in history phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0  

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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 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  On May - 01 birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)  

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on this day in history.  

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

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history.  

1277  On May - 01 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  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on this day in history.  

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