Historical Events In May - 01

1959  Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title on May - 01.   

1959  Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses on May - 01.   

1959  West Germany introduces 5 day work week on this day in history.   

1959  On May - 01 oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies   

1960  CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk on this day in history.   

1960  Gary Powers, in a U2 spy plane, shot down and captured by the USSR on May - 01.   

1960  On May - 01 india's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states   

1960  On May - 01 pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis   

1961  On this day in history fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba   

1961  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)   

1961  On May - 01 tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain   

1961  The first US airplane hijacked to Cuba on this day in history.   

1962  JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA) on this day in history.   

1962  On this day in history the first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara   

1963  Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands on this day in history.   

1963  The first American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest on May - 01.   

1964  The first BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) on May - 01.   

1965  On this day in history uSSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon   

1965  Leo Spies, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1966  Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) on this day in history.   

1966  Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational on this day in history.   

1966  On this day in history radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting   

1966  US troops shooting targets in Cambodia on this day in history.   

1967  Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua on this day in history.   

1967  Elvis Presley &Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas on May - 01.   

1967  In Greece a 5.75-6.0 earthquake in the mountainous area of northern Arta Province, 9 were killed, 56 injured, and over 100 houses destroyed on this day in history.   

1967  On this day in history jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank   

1967  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer)   

1968  Legoland, in Denmark, opens on May - 01.   

1968  Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1969  43 Unification church couples wed in NYC on this day in history.   

1969  On May - 01 pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting   

1969  Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1971  On this day in history amtrak railroad begins operation   

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

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 this day in history.   

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on May - 01.   

1567  On this day in history birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on May - 01.   

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

1118  Death of Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080) on May - 01.   

1171  On May - 01 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  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on this day in history.   

1447  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on this day in history.