Historical Events In May - 01

1934  Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 on this day in history.  

1935  Boulder Dam completed on this day in history.  

1935  On May - 01 canada's first silver dollar is circulated  

1935  On this day in history royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V  

1936  On May - 01 emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades  

1936  On May - 01 fBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis  

1937  On May - 01 fDR signs act of neutrality  

1937  Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on May - 01.  

1939  On this day in history batman Comics hit the street  

1939  On May - 01 pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)  

1940  On this day in history 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship  

1940  The 1940 Olympics are cancelled on May - 01.  

1941  On May - 01 "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York  

1941  On May - 01 allied evacuation from Greece completed  

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on this day in history.  

1941  German assault on Tobruk on this day in history.  

1941  Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY on May - 01.  

1941  John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 on May - 01.  

1942  On this day in history japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India.  

1942  Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star" on May - 01.  

1942  Townsville put on invasion alert on May - 01.  

1943  Final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins on May - 01.  

1943  Food rationing begins in US on this day in history.  

1943  On May - 01 german plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta  

1943  On May - 01 german Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes  

1943  Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871) on May - 01.  

1944  On May - 01 messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight  

1944  Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark) on this day in history.  

1944  Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails on May - 01.  

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide on this day in history.  

1945  On May - 01 admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government  

1945  Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast on this day in history.  

1945  On this day in history australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan  

1945  General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms on May - 01.  

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1218  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on this day in history.  

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 May - 01.  

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

1545  On this day in history birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist  

1567  On this day in history birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter  

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

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on May - 01.  

1118  Death of Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080) on this day in history.  

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  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on this day in history.  

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  On May - 01 hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies