Page 6: Historical Events In May - 01

1883  Amsterdam World's Fair opens on May - 01.   

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

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

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

1884  On this day in history felipe Boero, composer   

1885  Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands on this day in history.   

1885  Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth on this day in history.   

1886  US general strike for 8 hour day, begins on May - 01.   

1886  Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens) on this day in history.   

1887  Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48) on this day in history.   

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

1889  1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International on this day in history.   

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  US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay on May - 01.   

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

1892  On this day in history willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89   

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

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

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

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

1898  Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62) on this day in history.   

1898  On May - 01 alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81   

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

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

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

1901  On this day in history pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo   

1901  Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox on May - 01.   

1902  John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

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

1904  AntonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1905  On May - 01 leila Hyams, NYC, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap)   

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

0408  On May - 01 death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)   

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  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 May - 01.   

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