Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1934  On this day in history alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35   

1935  On this day in history boulder Dam completed   

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  On this day in history emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades   

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  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  On May - 01 pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)   

1940  On May - 01 140 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  Allied evacuation from Greece completed on this day in history.   

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on May - 01.   

1941  On May - 01 german assault on Tobruk   

1941  Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY on this day in history.   

1941  John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1942  Japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

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

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

1944  Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark) on this day in history.   

1944  Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails on this day in history.   

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

1945  On this day in history 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 May - 01 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  On this day in history birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)   

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 May - 01.   

1577  On May - 01 birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

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  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history.   

1447  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

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