Historical Events In May - 01
Sunday, 24 September 2023
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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