Historical Events In May - 01

1934  Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1935  On May - 01 boulder Dam completed   

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

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

1937  FDR signs act of neutrality on this day in history.   

1937  Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1939  On this day in history batman Comics hit the street   

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

1940  140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship on May - 01.   

1940  On this day in history 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  General Mills introduces Cheerios on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history john R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71   

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 May - 01.   

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

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

1943  Food rationing begins in US on May - 01.   

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 May - 01.   

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  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  Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan on this day in history.   

1945  General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms on this day in history.   

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1218  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on this day in history.   

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

1238  On this day in history birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on this day in history.   

1493  On May - 01 birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)   

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

1567  On May - 01 birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

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

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