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

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 May - 01 emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades   

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 May - 01 snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75   

1939  Batman Comics hit the street on this day in history.   

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 May - 01.   

1941  "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York on this day in history.   

1941  On May - 01 allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on May - 01.   

1941  On May - 01 german assault on Tobruk   

1941  On May - 01 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 May - 01.   

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  On this day in history townsville put on invasion alert   

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

1943  Food rationing begins in US on May - 01.   

1943  On this day in history german plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta   

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

1943  On this day in history 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 May - 01.   

1944  On May - 01 pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)   

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

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide on this day in history.   

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government on May - 01.   

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

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  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on this day in history.   

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

1545  On May - 01 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  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 May - 01.   

1171  On this day in history dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies   

1240  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered   

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

1456  On this day in history hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies