1st may history... 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. 1006 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus 1048 - Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth 1328 - Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state. 1394 - Ekiho exorcised the Zen temple & its surroundings of an old badger 1523 - Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere 1528 - Pánfilo the Narváez 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 1682 - Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory 1703 - Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians 1704 - Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper advertisement 1707 - England, Wales & Scotland form United Kingdom of Great Britain 1711 - Archduke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar 1715 - Prussia declares war on Sweden 1725 - Spain & Austria sign trade treaty 1751 - 1st American cricket match is played 1753 - Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. 1756 - France & Austria sign alliance 1757 - Austria & France divide Prussia 1759 - British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West Indies, capturing it from France 1776 - Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati 1777 - RB Sheridans School for Scandal premieres in London 1778 - American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. 1781 - Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population King of Hawaii Kamehameha IKing of Hawaii Kamehameha I 1785 - Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi 1786 - Mozarts opera Marriage of Figaro premieres in Wien (Vienna) 1822 - John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston 1834 - Belgian parliament accepts railway laws 1840 - Penny Blacks, first adhesive postage stamps issued, UK 1841 - 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri, for California 1844 - Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate 1846 - Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world 1848 - The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. 1850 - John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor 1851 - Great Exhibition opens in the Crystal Palace, London 1852 - The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation. 1853 - Argentina adopts its 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 Harpers Ferry 1862 - Major General Benjamin Butlers Union forces occupy New Orleans in US Civil War 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 begins 1864 - Wilderness campaign 1866 - American Equal Rights Association forms 1867 - Howard University chartered 1867 - Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration 1869 - Folies Bergère opens in Paris 1873 - 1st US postal card issued 1873 - Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th Worlds Exposition in Vienna 1875 - 238 members of Whiskey Ring accused of anti-US activities 1875 - Alexandra Palace, London, reopens after being burnt down in 1873 1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show 1883 - Amsterdam Worlds Fair opens 1883 - Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876 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 1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States. 1885 - Maria Goeie Mie Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands 1886 - US general strike for 8-hour working day begins 1889 - 2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark protests in Chicago in 1886 1889 - Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) 1891 - Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Clevelands League Park 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 as US route Spanish fleet at Manila 1900 - Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah 1900 - Roermond soccer team forms in Netherlands 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 - Phillies John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0 1907 - Belgium government of De Trooz forms 1907 - Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies) 1908 - Worlds 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 1914 - Chinas 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification 1915 - British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool 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 Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great Babe Ruth 1920 - Babe Ruths 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds 1920 - Belgium-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 1922 - Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game 1924 - Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece 1925 - As Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single 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 - Brooklyns 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 - Canadas 1st silver dollar is circulated 1936 - Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades First Director of the FBI J. Edgar HooverFirst Director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover 1936 - FBIs 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 - 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04 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 Actor Orson WellesActor Orson Welles 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 - Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander 1946 - Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named American Mother of Year 1946 - Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians. 1946 - The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy. 1947 - Cleve Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad 1947 - Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA 1947 - Radar for commercial & private planes 1st demonstrated 1947 - Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA 1948 - 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4 1948 - North Korea proclaims itself Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea 1948 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam 1948 - Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for Negroes 1949 - As Elmer Valo is 1st ALer to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game 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 Peoples 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 Mantles 1st HR 1951 - Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox 1952 - US Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada 1952 - Mr Potato Head introduced 1952 - TWA introduces tourist class 1954 - 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03 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 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament 1955 - Bob Fellers 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters) 1956 - A doctor in Japan reports an epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system, marking the official discovery of Minamata disease. 1957 - Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord 1957 - Larry Kings 1st radio broadcast 1957 - US gives 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 - Indias Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states 1960 - Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis 1960 - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk 1961 - 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba Cuban President Fidel CastroCuban President Fidel Castro 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
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