Page 6: Historical Events In May - 01

1883  Amsterdam World's Fair opens on May - 01.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1886  Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens) on May - 01.   

1887  On this day in history alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48)   

1889  Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) on this day in history.   

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 May - 01.   

1892  US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Fransisco Bay on this day in history.   

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

1892  On May - 01 howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)   

1892  Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1893  World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago on May - 01.   

1895  On this day in history leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)   

1896  Nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65 on this day in history.   

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

1898  On May - 01 eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)   

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

1900  On this day in history premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield UT   

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

1900  Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine) on this day in history.   

1901  On this day in history pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo   

1901  On May - 01 detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox   

1902  John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 on May - 01.   

1903  Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies on May - 01.   

1904  On May - 01 antonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62   

1905  Leila Hyams, NYC, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap) on May - 01.   

1906  On this day in history troops in Paris make many arrests during a May Day protest   

1906  Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0 on this day in history.   

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

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

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 May - 01.   

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on May - 01.   

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 this day in history.   

1308  On this day in history death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered   

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

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