Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1941  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.   

1942  Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

1942  Townsville put on invasion alert.   

1943  Final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins.   

1943  Food rationing begins in US   

1943  German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta.   

1943  German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes   

1943  Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871).   

1944  Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, inaugural jet bomber, makes inaugural flight   

1944  Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)   

1944  Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails.   

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide.   

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government.   

1945  Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast   

1945  Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan   

1945  General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms   

1945  Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII.   

1945  Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg.   

1945  Soviet army reach Rostock.   

1945  Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59.   

1946  Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander.   

1946  Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year".   

1946  Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71.   

1947  Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA.   

1947  Radar for commercial and private planes inaugural demonstrated.   

1947  Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, is recorded as becoming 3th director of the CIA   

1947  Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed   

1948  Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes".   

1948  North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea.   

1948  Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered.   

1949  Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune).   

1950  Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade.   

1950  New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China   

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1218  John i: Count of hainaut   

1218  Rudolph i of germany: Emperor of the holy roman empire   

1238  Magnus vi lagabuter: King of norway (1263-80)   

1285  Edmund fitzalan: 9th earl of arundel, english politician   

1493  Phillippus paracelsus: Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)   

1545  Franciscus junius: [francois du jon], french/neth calvinist theologist   

1567  Michiel jansz van mierevelt: Dutch royal painter   

1577  Francois van kinschot: Dutch treasurer   

0408  Death of Arcadius: Eastern roman emperor (b. 337/338)   

1118  Edith of scotland: First wife of henry i of england (b. c. 1080)   

1171  Death of Dermot macmurrough: Last irish king of leinster,   

1240  Death of Jacques de vitry: Cardinal-bishop of frascati and dean of the sacred college of cardinals   

1277  Death of Stefanus iv uros i de great: King of serbia (1243-76),   

1308  Death of Albrecht i van habsburg: German king (1298-1308), murdered   

1447  Death of Louis vii: Duke of baveria (1413-43),   

1456  Death of Hugues de lannoy: Flemish viceroy of holland/zealand,