Today is Monday, May 1, the 121st day of 2017. There are 244 days left in the year.
1931 — Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1934 — Austria signs pact with Vatican
1934 — Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
11936 — Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1939 — Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)
1940 — 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1940 — The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1941 — General Mills introduces Cheerios
1943 — Food rationing begins in U.S.
1943 — German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta