Historical Events In May - 01

1934  On May - 01 alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35  

1935  On May - 01 boulder Dam completed  

1935  Canada's first silver dollar is circulated on May - 01.  

1935  On May - 01 royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V  

1936  Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades on May - 01.  

1936  FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis on May - 01.  

1937  FDR signs act of neutrality on this day in history.  

1937  Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1939  Batman Comics hit the street on this day in history.  

1939  Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling) on this day in history.  

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

1940  On this day in history the 1940 Olympics are cancelled  

1941  "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York on this day in history.  

1941  Allied evacuation from Greece completed on this day in history.  

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on this day in history.  

1941  German assault on Tobruk on this day in history.  

1941  On May - 01 orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY  

1941  On May - 01 john R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71  

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

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

1942  On this day in history townsville put on invasion alert  

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 this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1944  Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight on May - 01.  

1944  Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark) on May - 01.  

1944  On this day in history surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails  

1945  On May - 01 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide  

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government on this day in history.  

1945  Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast on May - 01.  

1945  Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan on May - 01.  

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 May - 01.  

1218  On May - 01 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 this day in history.  

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  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  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 this day in history.  

1240  On May - 01 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  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies  

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