Page 10: Historical Events In May - 01

1945  Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII on this day in history.   

1945  Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg on this day in history.   

1945  On May - 01 soviet army reach Rostock   

1945  Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59 on May - 01.   

1946  Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander on May - 01.   

1946  Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year" on this day in history.   

1946  Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71 on May - 01.   

1947  Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA on this day in history.   

1947  On May - 01 radar for commercial &private planes first demonstrated   

1947  Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of the CIA on this day in history.   

1947  Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed on this day in history.   

1948  On this day in history glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"   

1948  On May - 01 north Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea   

1948  On May - 01 christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered   

1949  Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune) on this day in history.   

1950  On May - 01 mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade   

1950  New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China on May - 01.   

1950  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers &Hammerstein (South Pacific)   

1951  600,000 march for peace &freedom in Germany on May - 01.   

1951  On May - 01 dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir   

1951  Mickey Mantle's first homerun on this day in history.   

1951  On this day in history the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group sent to join United Nations forces in Korea.   

1952  Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada on May - 01.   

1952  On this day in history mr Potato Head, introduced   

1952  On May - 01 tWA introduces tourist class   

1952  On May - 01 william Fox, [Fried], US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73   

1954  On this day in history hSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies)   

1954  Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50 on May - 01.   

1957  On May - 01 larry King's first radio broadcast   

1957  On May - 01 uS give Poland credit of $95 million   

1957  On May - 01 vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km   

1957  On this day in history grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82   

1958  Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai on May - 01.   

1958  On May - 01 arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina   

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1218  On this day in history 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  On May - 01 birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)   

1285  On May - 01 birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)   

1493  On May - 01 birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)   

1545  On May - 01 birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist   

1567  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on May - 01.   

1577  On this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on May - 01.   

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  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on this day in history.   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on this day in history.   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on May - 01.   

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

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