Historical Events In May - 01

1883  On this day in history amsterdam World's Fair opens  

1883  On May - 01 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show  

1884  On May - 01 construction begins on Chicago's first skyscraper (10 stories)  

1884  On this day in history construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)  

1884  On this day in history felipe Boero, composer  

1885  On this day in history maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands  

1885  On this day in history maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth  

1886  On this day in history uS general strike for 8 hour day, begins  

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

1887  On May - 01 alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48)  

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1889  Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) on May - 01.  

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

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 May - 01 howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)  

1892  Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89 on May - 01.  

1893  On this day in history world Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago  

1895  Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946) on this day in history.  

1896  On this day in history nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65  

1898  On May - 01 george Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila  

1898  On May - 01 eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)  

1898  Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81 on May - 01.  

1900  On this day in history premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield UT  

1900  Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah on May - 01.  

1900  On this day in history ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine)  

1901  Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo on this day in history.  

1901  On this day in history detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox  

1902  On May - 01 john Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85  

1903  Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies on this day in history.  

1904  On May - 01 antonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62  

1905  Leila Hyams, NYC, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap) on May - 01.  

1906  On this day in history troops in Paris make many arrests during a May Day protest  

1906  Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0 on May - 01.  

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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 May - 01.  

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

1171  On this day in history dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies  

1240  On May - 01 death of jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals  

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