Page 6: Historical Events In May - 01

1883  On May - 01 amsterdam World's Fair opens   

1883  On this day in history "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show   

1884  On May - 01 construction begins on Chicago's first skyscraper (10 stories)   

1884  Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories) on this day in history.   

1884  Felipe Boero, composer on May - 01.   

1885  Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands on this day in history.   

1885  Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth on May - 01.   

1886  On this day in history uS general strike for 8 hour day, begins   

1886  Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens) on this day in history.   

1887  On May - 01 alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48)   

1889  Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) on May - 01.   

1889  1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International on this day in history.   

1891  Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3 on this day in history.   

1892  US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Fransisco Bay on May - 01.   

1892  On May - 01 uS Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay   

1892  Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone) on this day in history.   

1892  On this day in history willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89   

1893  On May - 01 world Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago   

1895  On May - 01 leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)   

1896  Nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65 on May - 01.   

1898  On May - 01 george Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila   

1898  Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62) on May - 01.   

1898  Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1900  Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield UT on May - 01.   

1900  Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah on this day in history.   

1900  Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine) on May - 01.   

1901  Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo on this day in history.   

1901  Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox on May - 01.   

1902  On May - 01 john Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85   

1903  Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies on this day in history.   

1904  AntonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62 on May - 01.   

1905  On May - 01 leila Hyams, NYC, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap)   

1906  On May - 01 troops in Paris make many arrests during a May Day protest   

1906  On May - 01 phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0   

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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  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on May - 01.   

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  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on this day in history.   

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 May - 01.   

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

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