Page 11: Historical Events In May - 01

1959  Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title on this day in history.   

1959  On May - 01 streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.   

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

1959  Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies on this day in history.   

1960  CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk on May - 01.   

1960  On this day in history gary Powers, in a U2 spy plane, shot down and captured by the USSR   

1960  India's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states on this day in history.   

1960  On May - 01 pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis   

1961  On May - 01 fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba   

1961  On May - 01 pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)   

1961  Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain on May - 01.   

1961  The first US airplane hijacked to Cuba on May - 01.   

1962  On May - 01 jFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)   

1962  The first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara on May - 01.   

1963  On this day in history indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands   

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

1964  On May - 01 the first BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)   

1965  USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon on this day in history.   

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

1966  On this day in history last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)   

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 May - 01.   

1967  Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua on May - 01.   

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 May - 01.   

1967  On May - 01 jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank   

1967  Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer) on May - 01.   

1968  Legoland, in Denmark, opens on this day in history.   

1968  On this day in history harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71   

1969  43 Unification church couples wed in NYC on May - 01.   

1969  Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting on May - 01.   

1969  On May - 01 ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56   

1971  On May - 01 amtrak railroad begins operation   

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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  On May - 01 birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.   

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

1577  On May - 01 birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on May - 01.   

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