Historical Events In May - 01

1934  On May - 01 alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35  

1935  Boulder Dam completed on this day in history.  

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  On May - 01 fBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis  

1937  On May - 01 fDR signs act of neutrality  

1937  Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on May - 01.  

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

1939  On May - 01 pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)  

1940  On this day in history 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship  

1940  On May - 01 the 1940 Olympics are cancelled  

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

1941  Allied evacuation from Greece completed on this day in history.  

1941  On May - 01 general Mills introduces Cheerios  

1941  On May - 01 german assault on Tobruk  

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 May - 01.  

1942  On May - 01 japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India.  

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  Food rationing begins in US on this day in history.  

1943  German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta on May - 01.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1944  On May - 01 surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails  

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

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

1945  On May - 01 australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast  

1945  On May - 01 australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan  

1945  On May - 01 general Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms  

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1218  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on May - 01.  

1218  On May - 01 birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)  

1238  On May - 01 birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)  

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.  

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on this day in history.  

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on this day in history.  

1567  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on May - 01.  

1577  On this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer  

0408  On this day in history death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)  

1118  On this day in history death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)  

1171  On May - 01 dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies  

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 May - 01.  

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on this day in history.  

1447  On this day in history louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies  

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on May - 01.