On May 1st in US Political History
Part II
On May 1st in 1909 Walter Reed Hospital opened in Washington DC as an 80-bed Army medical center.
On May 1st in 1937 President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
On May 1st in 1943 Food rationing began in US.
On May 1st in 1960 A Soviet missile shot down an American U-2 spy plane near Sverdlovsk with pilot Francis Gary Powers. Powers was held in the Soviet Union for 21 months.
On May 1st in 1968 In a second day of battle, US Marines, with the support of naval fire, continued their attack on a North Vietnamese Division at Dai Do.
On May 1st in 1970 Students at Kent State University rioted in downtown Kent, Ohio, in protest of the American invasion of Cambodia. Campus protests broke out across the nation.
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