This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
05/01/1238 Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) 
05/01/1493 Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) 
05/01/1545 Franciscus Junius, [Fran‡ois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologi

05/01/1567 Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter 
05/01/1577 Fran‡ois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer 
05/01/1582 Marco da Gagliano, composer 
05/01/1592 Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer 
05/01/1620 Mikl¢s Zr¡nyi, Hungarian general 
05/01/1633 S‚bastien le Prestre de Vauban, French fortress architect 
05/01/1672 Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator) 
05/01/1735 John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder of Marines 
05/01/1759 Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor 
05/01/1764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol) 
05/01/1764 Gottfried Rieger, composer 
05/01/1769 Arthur Wellsley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30) 
05/01/1771 George Guest, composer 
05/01/1775 Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer 
05/01/1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874 
05/01/1807 John Bankhead 'Prince John' Magruder, Major General (Confederate Arm

05/01/1818 Jos‚ Amador de los R¡os, Spanish historian/poet 
05/01/1819 William Steele, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 
05/01/1825 George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap) 
05/01/1829 Jos‚ M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice 
05/01/1830 Mary Harris Jones, [Mother Jones], hell-raiser 
05/01/1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander 'Natti' Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers

05/01/1839 Chardonnet, inventor (rayon) 
05/01/1858 Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer 
05/01/1859 Bohuslav Jeremias, composer 
05/01/1859 Willem J Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat 
05/01/1862 Anthony G Kr”ller, entrepreneur/govt advisor/husband of Helene Mlle

05/01/1862 Marcel Pr‚vost, French publisher/writer (Les demis-vierges) 
05/01/1872 Hugo Alfv‚n, Stockholm Sweden, composer (Midsommarvaka) 
05/01/1880 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo) 
05/01/1881 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist 
05/01/1884 Felipe Boero, composer 
05/01/1892 Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone) 
05/01/1895 Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946) 
05/01/1898 Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62) 
05/01/1899 J¢n Leifs, Iceland, composer/conductor 
05/01/1900 Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine) 
05/01/1905 Leila Hyams, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap) 
05/01/1907 Jan Pauw, CEO (Universal Netherlands Workers Aruba) 
05/01/1907 John Peacock, founder (Stage group Gen Dutch Covenant Aruba) 
05/01/1908 Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone) 
05/01/1909 George Melachrino, composer 
05/01/1909 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America) Phila Flyer good luck charm 
05/01/1909 Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet 
05/01/1910 Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins) 
05/01/1912 Felipe Padilla de Leon, composer 
05/01/1913 Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor 
05/01/1916 Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway) 
05/01/1916 Jack Parr, Canton Ohio, TV host (Jack Paar Show) 
05/01/1917 Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling) 
05/01/1917 John Beradino, LA Calif, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital) 
05/01/1919 Dan O'Herlihy, Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)

05/01/1921 Paul Daels, president (Flemish Iron Pilgramige committee) 
05/01/1923 Joseph Heller, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award) 
05/01/1924 Earl George, composer 
05/01/1924 Enrico Josif, composer 
05/01/1925 Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila) 
05/01/1925 Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder, astronaut (Mercury 7 (Aurora 7)) 
05/01/1927 Greta Andersen, Denmark, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948) 
05/01/1927 Harry Belefonte, calypso singer (Banana Boat Song) 
05/01/1927 Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer (Sea gulls die of illness) 
05/01/1928 Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist 
05/01/1930 Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles) 
05/01/1933 Joan Hackett, East Harlem NYC, actress (Defenders, Another Day) 
05/01/1937 Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel) 
05/01/1939 Judy Collins, Seattle Wash, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds) 
05/01/1939 Max Robinson, Richmond VA, black news anchor (ABC Evening News) 
05/01/1939 Ray Aranha, actor (Nick-Married People) 
05/01/1941 Juraj Hatrick, composer 
05/01/1942 Stephen Macht, Phila Pa, actor (Joe-Knots Landing, Cagney & Lacey) 
05/01/1944 Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higer & Higher, We're All Alone

05/01/1946 Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Serv)

05/01/1946 Valentin Muratov, USSR, floor exercise gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956) 
05/01/1947 Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express) 
05/01/1948 James Wise, US soul singer (Archie Bell & the Drells) 
05/01/1949 Douglas Barr, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (Howie-Fall Guy) 
05/01/1952 George Strait, country singer 
05/01/1953 Felix Hanemann, rocker (Zebra) 
05/01/1954 Michael Scott, reporter (Entertainment Tonight) 
05/01/1954 Ray Parker Jr, rock vocalist (Ghostbusters Theme) 
05/01/1956 Byron Stewart, Baxter Springs Ks, actor (Warren-St Elsewhere) 
05/01/1957 Dick Swett, (Rep-D-New Hampshire) 
05/01/1957 Steve Ferris, rocker (Mr Mister) 
05/01/1959 Paul Smith, rocker (Haircut 100) 
05/01/1960 Steven Cauthen, jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby) 
05/01/1961 Charlie O'Brien 
05/01/1964 Sarah FE Armstrong-Jones, daughter of princess Margaret & Lord Snowd

05/01/1967 Tawni Cable, Salem Oregon, playmate (June 1989) 
05/01/1968 Mark Scott, Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good) 
05/01/197- Roy Rosello, singer (Menudo-Cannonball) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/01/1171 Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies 
05/01/1277 Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies 
05/01/1308 Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered 
05/01/1447 Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies 
05/01/1456 Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies 
05/01/1471 Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91 
05/01/1555 Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53 
05/01/1572 Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies 
05/01/1679 Esaias Reusner, composer, dies at 43 
05/01/1700 John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies 
05/01/1772 Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52 
05/01/1863 Edward Dorr Tracy, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 29

05/01/1870 Francisco Solano L¢pez, field marshal/president of Paraguay 
05/01/1872 Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, die

05/01/1874 Vilem Blodek, composer, dies at 39 
05/01/1886 Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens) 
05/01/1886 Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer, dies at 56 
05/01/1892 Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89 
05/01/1898 Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81 
05/01/1900 Mih ly von Munk csy, [Michael von Lieb], German painter, dies at 56 
05/01/1902 John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 
05/01/1903 Luigi Arditi, composer, dies at 80 
05/01/1904 Anton¡n Dvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62 
05/01/1917 Jos‚ E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies 
05/01/1921 Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43 
05/01/1926 Nicolaus Adriani, translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60 
05/01/1932 Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargal

05/01/1934 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 
05/01/1937 Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 
05/01/1939 Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van oli‰n), dies 
05/01/1941 John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 
05/01/1945 Joseph Goebbels, nazi-German minister of propaganda, commits suicide

05/01/1946 Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71 
05/01/1946 Percy William Whitlock, composer, dies at 43 
05/01/1948 Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered 
05/01/1952 William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies 
05/01/1954 Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50 
05/01/1957 Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 8

05/01/1959 Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies 
05/01/1965 Leo Spies, composer, dies at 66 
05/01/1965 Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53 
05/01/1968 Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 

05/01/1969 Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 
05/01/1971 Edith Day, actress (Romance of Air), dies at 75 
05/01/1971 Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66 
05/01/1976 Rex O'Malley, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75 
05/01/1978 Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, composer, dies at 75 
05/01/1978 Aram Katchaturian, Armeens/Russian composer (The earth), dies 
05/01/1981 Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75 
05/01/1982 Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72 
05/01/1984 Gordon Jenkins, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73 
05/01/1988 Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer 
05/01/1988 Paolo Stoppa, actor (Garibaldi, Visit, Freedom Fighters), dies 
05/01/1989 David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdere

05/01/1989 Douglas Watson, actor (Satan Murders), dies at 68 
05/01/1989 Marion Mack, actress (General), dies 
05/01/1990 Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62 
05/01/1991 Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies 
05/01/1993 Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50 
05/01/1993 Pierre B‚r‚govoy, French premier (1992-93), commits suicide at 67 
05/01/1993 Ranasinghe Premadasa, president (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), murdered at 68

05/01/1994 Ayrton Senna da Silva, Brazil's Formula 1 driver, dies at 34 
05/01/1994 Imre Gy”ngy”ssy, Hungarian director, dies at 64 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/01/1006 Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus 
05/01/1048 Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth 
05/01/1394 Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple & it's surroundings from an old badg

05/01/1523 Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere 
05/01/1528 P nfilo the Narva‚z begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida 
05/01/1551 Council of Trente resumes 
05/01/1598 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java 
05/01/1625 Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland 
05/01/1628 Meiboom in Quincy Mass) degenerates into orgy with indian women 
05/01/1682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory 
05/01/1707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain 
05/01/1725 Spain & Austria sign trade treaty 
05/01/1751 1st American cricket match was played 
05/01/1756 France & Austria sign alliance 
05/01/1776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati 
05/01/1786 Mozart's opera 'Marriage of Figaro' premieres in Wien (Vienna) 
05/01/1822 John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston 
05/01/1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ('Penny Blacks' from England) issued 
05/01/1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif 
05/01/1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message 
05/01/1844 Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate 
05/01/1850 John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor 
05/01/1851 Great Exhibition opens in London's Hyde Park, with Crystal Palace 
05/01/1853 Argentina adopts it's constitution 
05/01/1854 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes 
05/01/1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy 
05/01/1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry 
05/01/1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans 
05/01/1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died) 
05/01/1863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi 
05/01/1863 Confederate 'National Flag' replaces 'Stars & Bars' 
05/01/1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers 
05/01/1864 -8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign) 
05/01/1864 Atlanta campaign, GA 
05/01/1864 Wilderness campaign 
05/01/1867 Howard University chartered 
05/01/1867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration 
05/01/1869 'Folies-BergŠre' opens in Paris 
05/01/1869 A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord, Ohio 
05/01/1869 Folies BergŠre opens in Paris 
05/01/1873 1st US postal card issued 
05/01/1873 International Exhibition opens in Wien (Vienna) 
05/01/1875 238 members of 'Whiskey Ring' accused of anti-US activities 
05/01/1883 Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876 
05/01/1883 NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer

05/01/1884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories) 
05/01/1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league 
05/01/1885 Maria 'Goeie Mie' Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth

05/01/1886 US general strike for 8 hour day, begins 
05/01/1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International 
05/01/1892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay 
05/01/1893 World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago 
05/01/1898 George Dewey commands, 'You may fire when you are ready, Gridley' 
05/01/1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah 
05/01/1901 Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox 
05/01/1901 Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League 
05/01/1901 Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo 
05/01/1906 Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0 
05/01/1907 Belgium govt of De Trooz forms 
05/01/1907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies) 
05/01/1908 World's most intense shower (2.47' in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama

05/01/1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium 
05/01/1914 China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification 
05/01/1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool 
05/01/1915 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight 
05/01/1920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds 
05/01/1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens 
05/01/1920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings 
05/01/1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda 
05/01/1923 Earl Sande aboard Zev wins his 1st Kentucky Derby 
05/01/1924 Admiral Paul Koundouri¢tis becomes president of Greece 
05/01/1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony 
05/01/1926 British coal-miners go on strike 
05/01/1926 Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings 
05/01/1926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League 
05/01/1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) 
05/01/1927 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam 
05/01/1928 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania 
05/01/1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman harasses VARA-radio transmitter 
05/01/1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration) 
05/01/1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service 
05/01/1929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds 
05/01/1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen 
05/01/1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstraters in Berlin 
05/01/1931 Empire State Building opens in NYC 
05/01/1931 Norway claims Peter I Island 
05/01/1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS 
05/01/1932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo 
05/01/1934 Austria signs pact with Vatican 
05/01/1934 Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence 
05/01/1934 Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert 
05/01/1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades 
05/01/1936 FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis 
05/01/1937 FDR signs act of neutrality 
05/01/1939 Batman comics hit street 
05/01/1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) 
05/01/1940 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship 
05/01/1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled 
05/01/1941 'Citizen Kane,' directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY 
05/01/1941 German assault on Tobroek 
05/01/1943 1st edition of illegal 'The Free Artist' appears in Amsterdam 
05/01/1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes 
05/01/1943 Johnny Longden on Count Fleet wins 69th Kentucky Derby (2:04) 
05/01/1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence 
05/01/1943 food rationing begins in US 
05/01/1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight 
05/01/1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) 
05/01/1944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails 
05/01/1945 Admiral D”nitz forms German government 
05/01/1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms 
05/01/1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II

05/01/1945 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg 
05/01/1946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named 'American Mother of Year' 
05/01/1947 Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated 
05/01/1947 Vice Adm Roscoe Hillenkoeter becomes 1st director of CIA 
05/01/1948 Eddie Arcaro on Citation wins 74th Kentucky Derby (2:05.4) 
05/01/1948 People's Republic North-Korea forms 
05/01/1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune) 
05/01/1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry) 
05/01/1950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade 
05/01/1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China 
05/01/1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific) 
05/01/1950 WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcastin

05/01/1951 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany 
05/01/1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir 
05/01/1951 Mickey Mantle's 1st HR 
05/01/1952 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3428 
05/01/1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada 
05/01/1954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialistic org forbidden) 
05/01/1954 HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (Moonies) 
05/01/1954 WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting 
05/01/1955 Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters) 
05/01/1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast 
05/01/1957 US give Poland credit of $95 million 
05/01/1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km 
05/01/1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai 
05/01/1959 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London 
05/01/1959 West Germany ntroduces 5 day work week 
05/01/1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR 
05/01/1960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states 
05/01/1960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis 
05/01/1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovs

05/01/1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba 
05/01/1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba 
05/01/1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) 
05/01/1961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain 
05/01/1962 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara 
05/01/1962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start 
05/01/1962 JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA) 
05/01/1963 1st American (James Whittaker) to conquer Mount Everest 
05/01/1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth 
05/01/1964 1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth) 
05/01/1965 Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks, 4 games to 3, for Stanley Cup 
05/01/1965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon 
05/01/1966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) 
05/01/1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting 
05/01/1966 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia 
05/01/1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua 
05/01/1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank 
05/01/1967 Priscilla Beaulieu & Elvis Presley wed in Las Vegas 
05/01/1967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) 
05/01/1969 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC 
05/01/1969 Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0 
05/01/1969 Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting 
05/01/1971 Amtrak railroad begins operation 
05/01/1971 Rolling Stones release 'Brown Sugar' 
05/01/1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) 
05/01/1972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres 
05/01/1973 SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7 
05/01/1975 Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs 
05/01/1975 Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead 
05/01/1976 Bold Forbes wins Kentucky Derby 
05/01/1976 Jos Hermens, Netherlands sets record for 20,000 m, 57:24.2 
05/01/1977 Empress Lilly dedicated 
05/01/1978 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated 
05/01/1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone 
05/01/1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel 
05/01/1979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) 
05/01/1979 Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing 
05/01/1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett 
05/01/1981 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges 
05/01/1981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 
05/01/1982 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens 
05/01/1982 Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead 
05/01/1983 Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508) 
05/01/1984 Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy 
05/01/1985 'Communistic' bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels 
05/01/1985 US president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua 
05/01/1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap 
05/01/1987 46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games 
05/01/1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun 
05/01/1988 IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3 
05/01/1989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to public 
05/01/1989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days 
05/01/1991 A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks 
05/01/1991 Angola's civil war ends 
05/01/1991 Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings 
05/01/1991 Tx Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0

05/01/1992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a Calif HS where he failed history 4 yrs pri

05/01/1992 NY Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs NJ Devils) 
05/01/1992 Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base 
05/01/1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) 
05/01/1994 -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed 
  
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