Historical Events In May - 01

1883  Amsterdam World's Fair opens on May - 01.   

1883  On this day in history "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show   

1884  Construction begins on Chicago's first skyscraper (10 stories) on this day in history.   

1884  Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories) on this day in history.   

1884  On May - 01 felipe Boero, composer   

1885  Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands on May - 01.   

1885  On this day in history maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth   

1886  On May - 01 uS general strike for 8 hour day, begins   

1886  On May - 01 conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens)   

1887  On May - 01 alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48)   

1889  Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) on May - 01.   

1889  On May - 01 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International   

1891  Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3 on May - 01.   

1892  US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Fransisco Bay on this day in history.   

1892  On May - 01 uS Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay   

1892  Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone) on May - 01.   

1892  Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89 on May - 01.   

1893  World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago on this day in history.   

1895  On May - 01 leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)   

1896  On May - 01 nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65   

1898  On May - 01 george Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila   

1898  Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62) on May - 01.   

1898  On May - 01 alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81   

1900  On this day in history premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield UT   

1900  On May - 01 premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah   

1900  Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine) on this day in history.   

1901  Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo on May - 01.   

1901  On this day in history detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox   

1902  John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 on May - 01.   

1903  Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies on this day in history.   

1904  AntonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1905  Leila Hyams, NYC, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap) on this day in history.   

1906  On May - 01 troops in Paris make many arrests during a May Day protest   

1906  Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0 on this day in history.   

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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 this day in history.   

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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  Death of Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080) on this day in history.   

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on this day in history.   

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  On May - 01 death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered   

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

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