Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1934  Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 on May - 01.   

1935  Boulder Dam completed on May - 01.   

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  Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades on May - 01.   

1936  FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis on May - 01.   

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  On this day in history batman Comics hit the street   

1939  Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  On May - 01 general Mills introduces Cheerios   

1941  German assault on Tobruk on this day in history.   

1941  On this day in history orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY   

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 May - 01.   

1942  On May - 01 radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

1942  On this day in history townsville put on invasion alert   

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

1943  Food rationing begins in US on this day in history.   

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

1943  German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes on this day in history.   

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

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 May - 01 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  On this day in history australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast   

1945  Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan on May - 01.   

1945  On this day in history 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  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on May - 01.   

1285  On this day in history birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)   

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on May - 01.   

1545  On this day in history birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist   

1567  On this day in history birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on this day in history.   

0408  On May - 01 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  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on May - 01.   

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on May - 01.   

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 May - 01.   

1447  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on May - 01.   

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