Page 10: Historical Events In May - 01

1945  Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII on May - 01.   

1945  On May - 01 seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg   

1945  On May - 01 soviet army reach Rostock   

1945  On this day in history desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59   

1946  Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander on May - 01.   

1946  On May - 01 mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year"   

1946  On May - 01 edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71   

1947  On May - 01 lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA   

1947  Radar for commercial &private planes first demonstrated on this day in history.   

1947  On May - 01 rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of the CIA   

1947  On this day in history sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed   

1948  Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes" on May - 01.   

1948  North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea on this day in history.   

1948  On May - 01 christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered   

1949  On this day in history gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)   

1950  Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade on May - 01.   

1950  On this day in history new marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China   

1950  Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers &Hammerstein (South Pacific) on this day in history.   

1951  600,000 march for peace &freedom in Germany on May - 01.   

1951  Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir on this day in history.   

1951  On May - 01 mickey Mantle's first homerun   

1951  The 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group sent to join United Nations forces in Korea on May - 01.   

1952  Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada on May - 01.   

1952  On this day in history mr Potato Head, introduced   

1952  On this day in history tWA introduces tourist class   

1952  William Fox, [Fried], US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73 on May - 01.   

1954  On this day in history hSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies)   

1954  Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50 on May - 01.   

1957  Larry King's first radio broadcast on May - 01.   

1957  On May - 01 uS give Poland credit of $95 million   

1957  On this day in history vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km   

1957  Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82 on May - 01.   

1958  On this day in history ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai   

1958  On this day in history arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina   

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

1218  On this day in history birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)   

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist   

1567  On May - 01 birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  On this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

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 May - 01.   

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  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 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