Historical Events In May - 01
Thursday, 17 October 2024
1934 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 on this day in history.
1935 Boulder Dam completed on this day in history.
1935 Canada's first silver dollar is circulated on this day in history.
1935 On May - 01 royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V
1936 On this day in history emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1936 On May - 01 fBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
1937 On this day in history fDR signs act of neutrality
1937 Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on this day in history.
1939 On May - 01 batman Comics hit the street
1939 On May - 01 pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)
1940 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship on this day in history.
1940 On May - 01 the 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1941 On May - 01 "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York
1941 Allied evacuation from Greece completed on this day in history.
1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios on May - 01.
1941 On May - 01 german assault on Tobruk
1941 Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY on this day in history.
1941 John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 on May - 01.
1942 Japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India on May - 01.
1942 On this day in history radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1942 Townsville put on invasion alert on this day in history.
1943 On May - 01 final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins.
1943 On May - 01 food rationing begins in US
1943 On May - 01 german plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes on this day in history.
1943 On May - 01 johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)
1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight on this day in history.
1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark) on May - 01.
1944 On May - 01 surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
1945 On May - 01 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide
1945 On this day in history admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
1945 Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast on this day in history.
1945 On this day in history australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
1945 On May - 01 general Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
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