Page 11: Historical Events In May - 01

1959  On this day in history floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title   

1959  Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses on May - 01.   

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

1959  On this day in history oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies   

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  On May - 01 india's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states   

1960  On May - 01 pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis   

1961  On this day in history 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  On May - 01 tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain   

1961  On this day in history the first US airplane hijacked to Cuba   

1962  JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA) on this day in history.   

1962  On May - 01 the first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara   

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 May - 01.   

1966  Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) on May - 01.   

1966  Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational on this day in history.   

1966  On May - 01 radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting   

1966  US troops shooting targets in Cambodia on May - 01.   

1967  On this day in history anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua   

1967  On May - 01 elvis Presley &Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas   

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 this day in history.   

1968  On May - 01 legoland, in Denmark, opens   

1968  On May - 01 harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71   

1969  On this day in history 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC   

1969  Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting on this day in history.   

1969  Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 on May - 01.   

1971  On May - 01 amtrak railroad begins operation   

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1218  On this day in history birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)   

1218  On May - 01 birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)   

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 this day in history.   

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

1545  On this day in history birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist   

1567  On this day in history birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

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

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

1118  On May - 01 death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)   

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 this day in history stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on this day in history.   

1447  On this day in history louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on May - 01.