Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1934  On May - 01 alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35   

1935  Boulder Dam completed on this day in history.   

1935  Canada's first silver dollar is circulated on this day in history.   

1935  On this day in history royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V   

1936  On this day in history emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades   

1936  FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis on May - 01.   

1937  On May - 01 fDR signs act of neutrality   

1937  On this day in history snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75   

1939  On May - 01 batman Comics hit the street   

1939  On this day in history pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)   

1940  On this day in history 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship   

1940  On this day in history the 1940 Olympics are cancelled   

1941  On this day in history "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York   

1941  On this day in history allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  On this day in history general Mills introduces Cheerios   

1941  German assault on Tobruk on May - 01.   

1941  Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY on May - 01.   

1941  On this day in history john R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71   

1942  Japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India on this day in history.   

1942  On May - 01 radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

1942  On this day in history townsville put on invasion alert   

1943  On May - 01 final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins.   

1943  On this day in history food rationing begins in US   

1943  On this day in history german plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta   

1943  On May - 01 german Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes   

1943  On this day in history johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)   

1944  Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight on this day in history.   

1944  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)   

1944  Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails on this day in history.   

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide on May - 01.   

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government on May - 01.   

1945  Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast on May - 01.   

1945  Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan on May - 01.   

1945  General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms on May - 01.   

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1218  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on May - 01.   

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  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 May - 01.   

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

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on May - 01.   

0408  On this day in history death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)   

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 this day in history.   

1277  On May - 01 stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies   

1308  On May - 01 death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered   

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

1456  On this day in history hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies