Today in History for 1st May 2017:
Historical Events
1915 – British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool
1940 – The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1945 – Soviet army reaches Rostock
1947 – Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA
1947 – Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
1991 – Angolan civil war ends
Famous Birthdays
1915 – Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
1946 – Valentin Muratov, USSR, floor exercise gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956)
1956 – Byron Stewart, Baxter Springs Ks, actor (Warren Coolidge-St Elsewhere)
1965 – Jon Warren, 1.5k runner, born in Akron, Ohio
1970 – Damon Diletti, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1975 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
Famous Deaths
1946 – Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71
1963 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (b. 1879)
1968 – Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71
1981 – Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75
1996 – Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67
2009 – Danny Gans, Canadian-born Las Vegas entertainer (b. 1956)