Page 10: Historical Events In May - 01

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

1945  On this day in history seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg   

1945  Soviet army reach Rostock on May - 01.   

1945  Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59 on May - 01.   

1946  On May - 01 fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander   

1946  Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year" on May - 01.   

1946  Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

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

1947  On this day in history radar for commercial &private planes first demonstrated   

1947  Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of the CIA on May - 01.   

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

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

1948  On May - 01 north Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea   

1948  Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered on this day in history.   

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

1950  On May - 01 mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade   

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 May - 01.   

1951  On this day in history 600,000 march for peace &freedom in Germany   

1951  Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir on May - 01.   

1951  On this day in history mickey Mantle's first homerun   

1951  On this day in history the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group sent to join United Nations forces in Korea.   

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  TWA introduces tourist class on May - 01.   

1952  On this day in history william Fox, [Fried], US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73   

1954  On May - 01 hSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (The Moonies)   

1954  On May - 01 tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50   

1957  Larry King's first radio broadcast on this day in history.   

1957  US give Poland credit of $95 million on this day in history.   

1957  Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km on May - 01.   

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

1958  Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai on this day in history.   

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

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1218  On May - 01 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  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on this day in history.   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.   

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 May - 01 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  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 May - 01.   

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.