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  On this day in history canada's first silver dollar is circulated   

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

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

1940  The 1940 Olympics are cancelled on this day in history.   

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

1941  On this day in history allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  On this day in history general Mills introduces Cheerios   

1941  On May - 01 german assault on Tobruk   

1941  Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY on May - 01.   

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 May - 01.   

1942  Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star" on May - 01.   

1942  On May - 01 townsville put on invasion alert   

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

1943  On May - 01 food rationing begins in US   

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

1943  On May - 01 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  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 this day in history.   

1944  Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails on May - 01.   

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

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  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 this day in history.   

1238  On this day in history birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)   

1285  On this day in history 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  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on May - 01.   

1567  On May - 01 birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

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

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on May - 01.   

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 this day in history.   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on this day in history.   

1308  On May - 01 death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered   

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.