Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1939  Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)   

1940  140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship.   

1940  The 1940 Olympics are cancelled.   

1941  "Citizen Kane", directed by and starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York.   

1941  Allied evacuation from Greece completed.   

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios.   

1941  German assault on Tobruk.   

1941  Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY   

1941  John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71.   

1942  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"   

1942  Townsville put on invasion alert.   

1943  Final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins   

1943  Food rationing begins in US   

1943  German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta   

1943  German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes.   

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

1944  Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, inaugural jet bomber, makes inaugural flight.   

1944  Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)   

1944  Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails.   

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide   

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government.   

1945  Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast.   

1945  Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan.   

1945  General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms.   

1945  Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII   

1945  Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg   

1945  Soviet army reach Rostock.   

1945  Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59   

1946  Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander   

1946  Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year"   

1946  Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71   

1947  Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA.   

1947  Radar for commercial and private planes inaugural demonstrated   

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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  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 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  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on this day in history.   

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

0408  On May - 01 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  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 this day in history.   

1277  On May - 01 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 May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

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