bin Laden dead on May 1… and Other Significant May 1 Events in History

When one takes most any day in history and looks at the overall picture, one sees that nations and individuals are like floating islands, coming near one another, colliding, pushing away, perhaps building bridges across their divides, sometimes not for a long long time. Here are some. There are many more.

2011 Osama din Laden dead
2010 A car bomb is discovered and deactivated in New York City’s Times Square
2003 President George W. Bush declares that ‘major combat operations’ in Iraq are over

1997 Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K.
1994 Tornado and hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
1992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 years prior

1991 Angola’s civil war ends

1989 U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting

1988 IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1985 “Communist” bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1985 U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua

1984 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
1979 Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1972 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
1969 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City

1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua

1966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
1966 U.S. troops shooting targets in Cambodia

1965 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon

1963 1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest
1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands
1962 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara at Ecker Algeria

1961 1st U.S. airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba

1961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
1960 India’s Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states

1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane

1958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai

1957 U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million
1954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)
1954 HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies)

1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952 Mr. Potato Head, introduced

1951 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany

1950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
1950 New marriage laws enforced in People’s Republic China

1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)

1948 North Korean proclaims itself People’s Democratic Republic of Korea

1947 Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
1947 Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated
1946 Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1945 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government

1945 Australian and 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

1944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails

1943 Food rationing begins in U.S.
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
1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear “Jewish star”
1941 “Citizen Kane,” directed and starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York

1941 German assault on Tobruk
1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1939 Batman comics hit street

1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs act of neutrality
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1936 FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
1935 Boulder Dam completed

1934 Austria signs pact with Vatican
1934 Philippine legislature accepts U.S. proposal for independence

1931 Empire State Building opens in New York City
1931 Norway claims Peter I Island
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1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
1928 6 children die and 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)

1926 British coal-miners go on strike

1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece

1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda

1920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
1915 German submarine sinks U.S. ship Gulflight
1914 China’s 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification

1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1908 World’s most intense shower (2.47″ in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama
1907 Belgium government of De Trooz forms
1907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Netherlands-Indies)

1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1892 U.S. Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay (this is to keep out Chinese from USA)
1889 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1886 U.S. general strike for 8 hour day, begins
1885 Maria “Goeie Mie” Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands
1884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1875 238 members of “Whiskey Ring” accused of anti-U.S. activities
1873 Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World’s Fair in Vienna
1867 Howard University chartered
1867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration

1866 American Equal Rights Association forms
1864 Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia (29,000 injured or died) This is the Civil War in the USA
1863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
1863 Confederate “National Flag” replaces “Stars and Bars”
1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers

1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper’s Ferry
1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to U.S. Navy
1854 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
1853 Argentina adopts it’s constitution

1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for California
1781 Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
1776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1759 British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France

1757 Austria and France divide Prussia
1756 France and Austria sign alliance
1725 Spain and Austria sign trade treaty
1715 Prussia declares war on Sweden
1711 Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion signs Peace of Szatmar
1707 England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain

1703 Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
1625 Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)
1544 Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1528 Panfilo the Narvaez begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
1006 Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus