Historical Events In May - 01

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

1883  On May - 01 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show   

1884  On May - 01 construction begins on Chicago's first skyscraper (10 stories)   

1884  On May - 01 construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)   

1884  Felipe Boero, composer on May - 01.   

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

1885  Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth on this day in history.   

1886  US general strike for 8 hour day, begins on this day in history.   

1886  Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens) on this day in history.   

1887  Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48) on this day in history.   

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

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

1891  Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3 on this day in history.   

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

1892  On this day in history uS Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay   

1892  On this day in history howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)   

1892  On May - 01 willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89   

1893  On May - 01 world Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago   

1895  Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946) on this day in history.   

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

1898  On this day in history george Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila   

1898  On May - 01 eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)   

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

1900  Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield UT on this day in history.   

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

1900  On this day in history ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine)   

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

1901  Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox on May - 01.   

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

1903  On May - 01 arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies   

1904  AntonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62 on May - 01.   

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

1906  On this day in history troops in Paris make many arrests during a May Day protest   

1906  Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0 on May - 01.   

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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  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on May - 01.   

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

1493  On this day in history 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 this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

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

1447  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on May - 01.   

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