Historical Events In May - 01

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

1935  Boulder Dam completed on May - 01.  

1935  On this day in history 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  Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades on this day in history.  

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

1937  FDR signs act of neutrality on May - 01.  

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.  

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

1940  On May - 01 the 1940 Olympics are cancelled  

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

1941  On this day in history 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  On this day in history orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY  

1941  On this day in history 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  Townsville put on invasion alert on May - 01.  

1943  On this day in history final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins.  

1943  Food rationing begins in US on May - 01.  

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

1943  German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes on this day in history.  

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 May - 01.  

1944  Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails on this day in history.  

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

1945  On this day in history admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government  

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

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  On May - 01 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  On this day in history birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)  

1285  On May - 01 birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)  

1493  On this day in history birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)  

1545  On May - 01 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 May - 01 birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer  

0408  On May - 01 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  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on May - 01.  

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

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

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