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Events from History on May 01

1006 : Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
1048 : Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth
1394 : Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple & it's surroundings from an old badger
1523 : Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
1528 : P nfilo the Narva‚z begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
1544 : Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1551 : Council of Trente resumes
1598 : Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java
1625 : Portuguese & Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)
1625 : Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland
1628 : Meiboom in Quincy Mass) degenerates into orgy with indian women
1682 : Louis XIV & his court inaugurates Paris Observatory
1703 : Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
1704 : Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1707 : England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1711 : Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
1715 : Prussia declares war on Sweden
1725 : Spain & Austria sign trade treaty
1756 : France & Austria sign alliance
1757 : Austria & France divide Prussia
1759 : British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
1776 : Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1777 : RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London
1781 : Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
1786 : Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1822 : John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
1834 : Belgian parliament accept railway laws
1840 : 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1841 : 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif
1844 : Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1844 : Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
1846 : Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
1850 : John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
1851 : Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London
1853 : Argentina adopts it's constitution
1854 : Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
1857 : William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
1861 : Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
1862 : Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
1863 : Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
1863 : Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
1863 : Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars"
1863 : Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
1864 : -8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
1864 : Atlanta campaign, GA
1864 : Wilderness campaign
1866 : American Equal Rights Association forms
1867 : Howard University chartered
1867 : Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
1869 : Folies BergŠre opens in Paris
1873 : 1st US postal card issued
1873 : Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna
1873 : International Exhibition opens in Vienna
1875 : 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities
1883 : "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1883 : Amsterdam World's Fair opens
1883 : NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
1884 : Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1884 : Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
1885 : Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth
1886 : US general strike for 8 hour day, begins
1889 : 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
1889 : Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1891 : Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3
1892 : US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
1893 : World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1898 : George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"
1898 : as US route Spanish fleet at Manila
1900 : Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1900 : Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond
1901 : Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
1901 : Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
1901 : Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
1906 : Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0
1907 : Belgium govt of De Trooz forms
1907 : Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
1908 : World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama
1909 : Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1912 : Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms
1912 : Beverly Hills Hotel opens
1913 : Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St NYC
1915 : British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
1915 : German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
1919 : Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke
1919 : through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1920 : Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1920 : Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
1920 : Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
1921 : Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
1924 : Admiral Paul Koundouri¢tis becomes president of Greece
1925 : Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1926 : British coal-miners go on strike
1926 : Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
1926 : Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
1927 : 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1927 : Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
1927 : Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen
1928 : 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1928 : Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1928 : Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
1928 : Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
1928 : Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms
1929 : Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1929 : Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1929 : Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
1930 : Bradman scores 236 Aust v Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng
1931 : Empire State Building opens in NYC
1931 : Norway claims Peter I Island
1931 : Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1932 : 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
1934 : Austria signs pact with Vatican
1934 : Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
1934 : Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
1935 : Boulder Dam completed
1935 : Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
1936 : Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1936 : FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
1937 : FDR signs act of neutrality
1939 : Batman comics hit street
1939 : Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1940 : 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1940 : The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1941 : "Citizen Kane," directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY
1941 : General Mills introduces Cheerios
1941 : German assault on Tobruk
1942 : Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1943 : 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam
1943 : Food rationing begins in US
1943 : German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
1943 : German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1943 : Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
1944 : Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1944 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
1944 : Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
1945 : 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
1945 : Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
1945 : Australian & Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
1945 : General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
1945 : Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
1945 : Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
1945 : Soviet army reach Rostock
1946 : Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1946 : Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
1947 : Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
1947 : Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
1947 : Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA
1948 : Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for
1948 : North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1948 : Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
1948 : trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
1949 : Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
1950 : Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)
1950 : Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
1950 : New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
1950 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1950 : WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 : 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany
1951 : Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
1951 : Mickey Mantle's 1st HR
1951 : Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
1952 : Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952 : Mr Potato Head, introduced
1952 : TWA introduces tourist class
1954 : Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)
1954 : HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies)
1954 : WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
1955 : Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
1957 : Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
1957 : Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1957 : US give Poland credit of $95 million
1957 : Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
1958 : Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
1958 : Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina
1959 : Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 : West Germany introduces 5 day work week
1959 : White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
1960 : India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
1960 : Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
1961 : 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 : Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1961 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1961 : Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
1962 : 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara
1962 : Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
1962 : France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1962 : JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
1963 : 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
1963 : Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
1965 : USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
1966 : Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1966 : Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
1966 : US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
1967 : Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
1967 : Elvis Presley & Pricilla Beaulieu wed
1967 : Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
1967 : Priscilla Beaulieu & Elvis Presley wed in Las Vegas
1967 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
1968 : "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 perfs
1968 : Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup
1969 : 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1969 : Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0
1969 : Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting
1971 : Amtrak Railroad begins operation
1971 : Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
1972 : "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances
1972 : North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
1972 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
1972 : Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
1975 : Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
1975 : Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs
1977 : Empress Lilly dedicated
1978 : 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1978 : MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht
1978 : Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1979 : Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
1979 : Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
1979 : Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
1980 : "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden NYC for 588 perf
1980 : 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
1980 : Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
1980 : Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
1981 : Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
1981 : Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1981 : Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 : 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens
1982 : Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1983 : "My One & Only" opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances
1983 : Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
1984 : Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 : Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
1985 : "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1985 : US president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
1985 : William Hoffman's "As Is," premieres in NYC
1986 : Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
1986 : Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1986 : Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1987 : Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1988 : "Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 perfs
1988 : IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
1989 : 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to public
1989 : Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 : US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non-
1989 : discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting
1990 : "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1991 : "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 983 performances
1991 : A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks
1991 : Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy
1991 : Angola's civil war ends
1991 : Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
1991 : Nolan Ryan pitches his 7th no-hitter, beating Toronto
1991 : Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal
1991 : Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbain, homosexual & hetrosexual nude
1991 : Tx Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
1991 : couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC
1992 : Eric Houston kills 4 in a Calif HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior
1992 : Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
1993 : Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
1994 : "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
1994 : "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 9 perfs
1994 : -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1994 : Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
1995 : "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
1995 : Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia v WI at Sabina Park
1996 : "Ideal Husband" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 308 performances
1997 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
1997 : Toni Blair elected PM of UK
1999 : 125th Kentucky Derby
2002 : Indian Prime Minister announces Rs. 150 Cr rehabilitation plan for Gujarat
2002 : CISF takes over security arrangements for Taj Mahal upon Supreme Court directions.

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