Page 7: Historical Events In May - 03

1944  "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway.   

1944  Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the inaugural synthetic quinine   

1944  Meat rationing ends in US.   

1945  Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg   

1945  British troop join in Rangoon   

1945  inaugural Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar.   

1945  inaugural Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen.   

1945  German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5800 killed   

1945  Rangoon taken by 26th Indian Division   

1945  1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen   

1945  Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66.   

1946  International military tribunal in Tokyo begins   

1947  Japan forms a constitutional democracy   

1947  Doug Hemming, American actor is born   

1947  In this year, 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot claims in 2:06.8.   

1948  Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams   

1949  A ten nations conference in London forms the Council of Europe.   

1949  The inaugural firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km.   

1952  "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances.   

1952  The inaugural airplane to land at the geographic location of the North Pole did so on this day.   

1952  The inaugural landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole   

1954  Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh and John Patrick.   

1955  Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies.   

1956  A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13000')   

1957  Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner Walter O’ Malley agreed to move the team from Flatbush to sunny Los Angeles. Initially, only exhibition games were held at the L.A. Coliseum   

1958  In Brockville, Ontario a Trust company is robbed of $3.3 million dollars in bonds and securities.   

1958  Frank Foster, cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies   

1960  Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks" premieres in NYC   

1961  Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies at 53   

1962  Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)   

1963  Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech.   

1963  Over 1600 residents of Hay River and Fort Simpson airlifted to safety after towns struck by flooding; the townsites will be moved to higher ground.   

1964  Diana Wynyard, dies at 58   

1965  Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US.   

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0612  Constantine iii: Byzantine emperor   

1415  Cecily neville: Mother of edward iv of england and richard iii of england   

1428  Pedro gonzález de mendoza: Spanish cardinal and statesman   

1446  Margaretha: English princess/duchess of bourgondie   

1446  Margaret of york: Wife of charles i, duke of burgundy   

1469  Niccolo machiavelli: Italy, politician/writer (prince)   

1514  Bartholomaeus a martyribus: [fernandez], primate of portugal   

1535  Alessandro "agnolo" allori: Italian painter/carpet designer   

1010  Ansfried: 9th bishop of utrecht (995-1010)/saint,   

1152  Matilda of boulogne: Queen of england (b. 1105)   

1160  Death of Peter lombard: Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100)   

1270  King b�la iv of hungary: King b�la iv of hungary (b. 1206)   

1294  Death of Jan i: Duke of brabant/limburg/poet,   

1410  Alexander v: [petros philargi], kreta's pope (1409-10),   

1442  Death of Engelbert i: Earl of nassau-dillenburg,   

1481  Mehmed ii: Ottoman sultan (b. 1432)