Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

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

1935  Boulder Dam completed on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1936  FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis on this day in history.   

1937  FDR signs act of neutrality on May - 01.   

1937  On this day in history snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75   

1939  Batman Comics hit the street on May - 01.   

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

1940  140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship on May - 01.   

1940  On this day in history the 1940 Olympics are cancelled   

1941  "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York on May - 01.   

1941  On this day in history allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  On May - 01 general Mills introduces Cheerios   

1941  German assault on Tobruk on May - 01.   

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  On May - 01 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 this day in history.   

1942  Townsville put on invasion alert on this day in history.   

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

1943  On May - 01 food rationing begins in US   

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 May - 01.   

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

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

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

1945  On May - 01 admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government   

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

1945  On this day in history australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan   

1945  On May - 01 general Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms   

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1218  On this day in history 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  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  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)   

1118  On May - 01 death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)   

1171  On May - 01 dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies   

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

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on May - 01.   

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 May - 01 hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies