Historical Events In May - 01

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

1935  Boulder Dam completed on this day in history.  

1935  Canada's first silver dollar is circulated on this day in history.  

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 May - 01.  

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

1937  On this day in history fDR signs act of neutrality  

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

1939  On May - 01 batman Comics hit the street  

1939  Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling) on May - 01.  

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

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  On May - 01 allied evacuation from Greece completed  

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on May - 01.  

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  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  On this day in history townsville put on invasion alert  

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

1943  Food rationing begins in US on May - 01.  

1943  German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta on this day in history.  

1943  On this day in history 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  Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight on this day in history.  

1944  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)  

1944  On May - 01 surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails  

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

1945  On May - 01 admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government  

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

1945  On May - 01 australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan  

1945  General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms on this day in history.  

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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 this day in history.  

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on this day in history.  

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

1545  On May - 01 birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist  

1567  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on this day in history.  

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on May - 01.  

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 this day in history.  

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on this day in history.  

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 May - 01.  

1447  On this day in history louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies  

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on this day in history.