Page 13: Historical Events In May - 01

1986  Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph on May - 01.   

1986  On this day in history tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap   

1986  Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole on May - 01.   

1987  British Customs seizes Air Canada jet at Heathrow Airport after discovering a major hashish shipment from India; plane released after Air Canada pays substantial fine on this day in history.   

1987  Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun on this day in history.   

1988  On May - 01 iRA attack in Roermond, kills 3   

1988  Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer on May - 01.   

1989  135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to the public on this day in history.   

1989  US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non-discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting on this day in history.   

1989  David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered on May - 01.   

1990  Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1991  A's Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal (vs Yankees) on May - 01.   

1991  Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history angola's civil war ends   

1991  On this day in history last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge   

1991  Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base on May - 01.   

1991  Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual &heterosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC on this day in history.   

1991  Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies on this day in history.   

1992  Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior on this day in history.   

1992  Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base on May - 01.   

1993  On this day in history bomb attack on Sri Lankan President (26 die)   

1993  Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50 on May - 01.   

1994  Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road) on May - 01.   

1994  On this day in history tornado &hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed   

1994  On this day in history ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34   

1995  Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia vs West Indies at Sabina Park on this day in history.   

1996  Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1997  On May - 01 toni Blair elected PM of UK   

1997  Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40 on May - 01.   

1998  Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver dies today in Pomona, California, at age 62 on this day in history.   

1999  On May - 01 the body of British mountaineer George Mallory is found on Mount Everest almost 75 years after he disappeared on a climbing expedition.   

2002  Indian heat wave in India killing 1,030 people on this day in history.   

2005  A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, and leaves at least 25 people dead and more than 30 others injured. Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad on this day in history.   

2006  Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields on May - 01.   

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

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

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on May - 01.   

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  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on May - 01.   

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

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 May - 01.   

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 May - 01.   

1447  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

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