Today in History
May 1
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| 1006 Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus | ||
| 1048 Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth | ||
| 1238 Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born | ||
| 1394 Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple & it's surroundings from an old badger | ||
| 1523 Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere | ||
| 1544 Turkish troops occupy Hungary | ||
| 1551 Council of Trente resumes | ||
| 1567 Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter was born | ||
| 1598 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java | ||
| 1625 Portuguese & Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia) | ||
| 1625 Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland | ||
| 1672 Joseph Addison, English poet, essayist and politician, was born. Together with Richard Steele, he founded the Spectator in March 1711. | ||
| 1682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurates Paris Observatory | ||
| 1700 John Dryden, English poet and poet laureate from 1668-88, died. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1735 John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp was born | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1781 Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population | ||
| 1786 Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna) | ||
| 1808 After only a few days in power, Ferdinand relinquished the Spanish throne in favor of Napoleon of France. | ||
| 1834 Belgian parliament accept railway laws | ||
| 1839 Chardonnet, inventor (rayon) was born | ||
| 1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message | ||
| 1851 Queen Victoria opened the first Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. | ||
| 1853 Argentina adopts it's constitution | ||
| 1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy | ||
| 1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans | ||
| 1873 1st US postal card issued | ||
| 1873 Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna | ||
| 1873 International Exhibition opens in Vienna | ||
| 1873 David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer, was found dead at Chitambo, now in Zambia. | ||
| 1876 The Royal Titles Bill was passed by the British Parliament, entitling Queen Victoria to call herself Empress of India. | ||
| 1883 Amsterdam World's Fair opens | ||
| 1884 Work began on a 10-story building in Chicago using a unique steel-framed interior, making it the world's first "skyscraper." | ||
| 1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48) was born | ||
| 1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International | ||
| 1889 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) | ||
| 1898 In the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces destroyed the Spanish fleet and blockaded the bay for three months before capturing Manila itself. | ||
| 1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah | ||
| 1904 Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, noted for his ninth symphony "From the New World," died. | ||
| 1907 Belgium governament of De Trooz forms | ||
| 1907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies) | ||
| 1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium | ||
| 1914 China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification | ||
| 1915 The liner Lusitania left New York on the same day the German Embassy took out advertisements warning anyone traveling on ships carrying a British flag that they did so at their own risk. It was sunk six days later. | ||
| 1915 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight | ||
| 1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages | ||
| 1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens | ||
| 1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda | ||
| 1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriątis becomes president of Greece | ||
| 1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony | ||
| 1926 British coal-miners go on strike | ||
| 1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) | ||
| 1928 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania | ||
| 1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service | ||
| 1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen | ||
| 1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin | ||
| 1931 Norway claims Peter I Island | ||
| 1931 The 102-story Empire State Building in New York, at the time the world's tallest building, officially opened. | ||
| 1932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo | ||
| 1934 Austria signs pact with Vatican | ||
| 1934 Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1937 Spanish painter Pablo Picasso produced the first sketch of his masterpiece "Guernica," five days after the Basque town had been bombed by the Germans. | ||
| 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 General Mills introduces Cheerios | ||
| 1941 German assault on Tobruk | ||
| 1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes | ||
| 1943 German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta | ||
| 1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight | ||
| 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 Soviet army reach Rostock | ||
| 1945 Hamburg radio officially announced that Hitler had died in Berlin; Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels committed suicide in his Berlin bunker; German headquarters in Italy formally agreed to an unconditional surrender. | ||
| 1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA | ||
| 1948 North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea | ||
| 1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam | ||
| 1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China | ||
| 1951 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany | ||
| 1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai | ||
| 1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina | ||
| 1960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states | ||
| 1960 The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 plane piloted by Gary Powers. He was jailed for spying before being exchanged in an East-West spy swap in February 1962. | ||
| 1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba | ||
| 1961 Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared the country a socialist nation and abolished elections. | ||
| 1961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain | ||
| 1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth | ||
| 1963 Sir Winston Churchill announced his retirement from the House of Commons. | ||
| 1965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon | ||
| 1966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) | ||
| 1966 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia | ||
| 1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua | ||
| 1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank | ||
| 1967 Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas. | ||
| 1971 The Amtrak rail passenger service took over operation of most passenger trains in the United States. | ||
| 1972 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee | ||
| 1978 Naomi Uemura, a Japanese explorer, became the first man to reach the North Pole alone | ||
| 1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel | ||
| 1982 In Poland, 50,000 supporters of "Solidarity" demonstrated in Warsaw against military rule. | ||
| 1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels | ||
| 1985 US president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua | ||
| 1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole | ||
| 1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun | ||
| 1988 IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3 | ||
| 1990 Chinese troops began withdrawing from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa as martial law was lifted. | ||
| 1991 Angola's civil war ends | ||
| 1991 Col. Elias Ramaema was sworn in as the military ruler of Lesotho. | ||
| 1992 Turkmenistan announced it would switch to a Latin-based Turkish alphabet from the Cyrillic script. | ||
| 1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) | ||
| 1993 President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling party won the most seats in united Yemen's first general elections. | ||
| 1993 Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa died of injuries sustained in a bomb blast during a May Day procession. | ||
| 1994 Ayrton Senna, three times world F-1 auto racing champion, died after a high-speed crash in the San Marino Grand Prix. | ||
| 1994 Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed | ||
| 1995 Croatia recaptured the rebel Serb enclave of Western Slavonia it lost in 1991. | ||
| 1996 Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps announced she was resigning over the government's failure to abolish a controversial sales tax. | ||
| 1997 Tony Blair's Labor Party won a landslide victory in Britain's general election. | ||
C.H. OSTFELD INC.