Page 11: Historical Events In May - 01

1959  On May - 01 floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title   

1959  On May - 01 streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.   

1959  On May - 01 west Germany introduces 5 day work week   

1959  Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies on May - 01.   

1960  CIA agent Francis Gary Powers, piloting an American U-2 reconnaissance plane, is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdiovsk on this day in history.   

1960  Gary Powers, in a U2 spy plane, shot down and captured by the USSR on this day in history.   

1960  On this day in history india's Bombay state split into Gujarat &Maharashtra states   

1960  Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis on this day in history.   

1961  Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba on May - 01.   

1961  Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) on May - 01.   

1961  Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history the first US airplane hijacked to Cuba   

1962  On this day in history jFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)   

1962  On May - 01 the first French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara   

1963  Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands on this day in history.   

1963  The first American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest on this day in history.   

1964  On May - 01 the first BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)   

1965  USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon on this day in history.   

1965  On May - 01 leo Spies, composer, dies at 65   

1966  Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) on May - 01.   

1966  Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational on May - 01.   

1966  Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting on this day in history.   

1966  US troops shooting targets in Cambodia on May - 01.   

1967  Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua on May - 01.   

1967  Elvis Presley &Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas on May - 01.   

1967  In Greece a 5.75-6.0 earthquake in the mountainous area of northern Arta Province, 9 were killed, 56 injured, and over 100 houses destroyed on this day in history.   

1967  On May - 01 jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank   

1967  On May - 01 pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer)   

1968  On this day in history legoland, in Denmark, opens   

1968  Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 on May - 01.   

1969  43 Unification church couples wed in NYC on this day in history.   

1969  On this day in history pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting   

1969  On May - 01 ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56   

1971  On May - 01 amtrak railroad begins operation   

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1218  On this day in history birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)   

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 this day in history.   

1285  On May - 01 birth of edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)   

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on May - 01.   

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on this day in history.   

1567  Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born on May - 01.   

1577  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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

1447  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on this day in history.   

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on this day in history.