Historical Events In May - 01

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

1935  On May - 01 boulder Dam completed  

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

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

1936  On this day in history emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades  

1936  On this day in history fBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis  

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

1937  On May - 01 snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75  

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  140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship on May - 01.  

1940  The 1940 Olympics are cancelled on May - 01.  

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

1941  On May - 01 allied evacuation from Greece completed  

1941  On May - 01 general Mills introduces Cheerios  

1941  On this day in history german assault on Tobruk  

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

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

1942  On May - 01 japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India.  

1942  On May - 01 radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"  

1942  On May - 01 townsville put on invasion alert  

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

1943  On this day in history food rationing begins in US  

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

1943  On this day in history german Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes  

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

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 this day in history.  

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

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide on May - 01.  

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government on May - 01.  

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

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 this day in history birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)  

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 May - 01.  

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.  

1493  On May - 01 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 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  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on this day in history.  

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  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on May - 01.  

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 this day in history.  

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.