Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1934  Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1935  Boulder Dam completed on May - 01.   

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

1935  Royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V on May - 01.   

1936  On May - 01 emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades   

1936  On this day in history fBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis   

1937  FDR signs act of neutrality on this day in history.   

1937  Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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 May - 01 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship   

1940  The 1940 Olympics are cancelled on this day in history.   

1941  "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York on May - 01.   

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 this day in history.   

1941  On May - 01 orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY   

1941  John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 on May - 01.   

1942  On May - 01 japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India.   

1942  On this day in history radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

1942  Townsville put on invasion alert on this day in history.   

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

1943  Food rationing begins in US on this day in history.   

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

1943  On this day in history german Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes   

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

1944  On May - 01 messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight   

1944  Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark) on May - 01.   

1944  On this day in history surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails   

1945  On this day in history 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide   

1945  On this day in history admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government   

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

1945  Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan on this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)   

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

1545  On May - 01 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 May - 01.   

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

1118  On this day in history 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 May - 01.   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on May - 01.   

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