| 2nd 
            May, on this day  1194 King 
            Richard I of England gives Portsmouth 
            its first Royal Charter. 1230 William 
            de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny was hanged by Prince 
            Llywelyn the Great
 1335 Otto 
            the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
 1345 "Quaden Maendach" in Gent: Battles between volders 
            & weavers
 1497 John Cabot departs to North-America
 1526 German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League
 1536 King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery and incest
 1568 Mary 
            I of Scotland escapes from Loch Leven Castle, where she had been 
            imprisoned by Sir William Douglas.
 1595 King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Netherlands
 1598 France and Spain signs Peace of Vervins
 1611 First publication of the new Authorised King James Version of 
            the Bible
 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution
 1670 King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company
 1703 Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
 1749 Empress Maria Theresa signs "Haugwitzschen State reform"
 1750 Carlo Goldoni's "La Botega di Caffè" premieres 
            in Mantua
 1776 France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels
 1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
 1808 Uprising 
            against French occupation begins in Madrid
 1816 Léopold 
            of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta are wed.
 1824 Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)
 1829 After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles 
            Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan 
            River Colony in Australia.
 1833 Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
 1845 Domingo Sarmiento publishes "Civilización y Barbarie"
 1847 Sabbath famine
 1863 Stonewall 
            Jackson attacks Chancellorsville VA, wounded by his own men; South 
            defeats North. He succumbs to pneumonia 8 days later.
 1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson 
            Davis
 1866 Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle 
            of Callao.
 1876 The April 
            Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
 1885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
 1885 Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium
 1885 Cree and Assiniboine warriors won the Battle 
            of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during 
            the North-West Rebellion.
 1887 G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence
 1887 Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
 1889 Abyssinian emperor Menelik 
            II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale
 1890 Territory of Oklahoma created
 1900 Oscar 
            II, King of Sweden, declares support for Britain at the time of 
            the Second Boer War.
 1900 George Bernard Shaws "You Never Can Tell" premieres 
            in London
 1902 The 1st science fiction film, "A Trip To The Moon", 
            is released
 1905 French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
 1907 Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian Government
 1911 French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco
 1916 US President Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act
 1918 General 
            Motors acquires the Chevrolet 
            Motor Company of Delaware.
 1919 1st US air passenger service starts
 1921 Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
 1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua
 1927 International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) 
            opens
 1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
 1932 Comedian Jack 
            Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
 1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
 1934 Nazi-Germany begins People's court
 1936 "Peter and the Wolf" premieres in Moscow
 1936 Emperor Haile Selassie and family flee Abyssinia
 1938 Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
 1941 FCC approves regular scheduled commercial TV broadcasts to begin 
            July 1
 1941 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy
 1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists
 1942 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay, Burma
 1942 World War II: HMS Edinburgh is sunk in the Barents Sea off the 
            Norwegian coast. Its cargo of gold bars lay in 800 feet of water until 
            salvaged in 1981
 1943 German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia
 1945 Allies occupy Wismar
 1945 German Army in Italy surrenders
 1945 Russia 
            takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
 1945 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste
 1946 Prisoners 
            revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
 1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
 1949 Bolivian state of siege proclaimed
 1952 First jet passenger service begins between London and Johannesburg 
            in South Africa with a BOAC 
            Comet
 1953 Football legend Sir 
            Stanley Matthews, at the age of 38, wins an FA Cup winners' medal 
            as Blackpool come back from trailing 3-1 to beat Bolton 4-3. In recognition 
            of the impact he had on the match, it has become known as the 'Matthews 
            Final'
 1953 Feisal 
            II installed as king of Iraq
 1953 Hussein 
            I installed as king of Jordan
 1955 India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable
 1956 US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
 1956 US Methodist church disallows race separation
 1960 House investigating committee, looking into payola 
            questions
 1962 OAS strikes in Algeria
 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
 1964 Beatles' "Second Album" goes to number 1 and stays 
            for 5 weeks
 1964 An explosion sinks the USS 
            Card while docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of 
            placing a bomb on the ship.
 1964 First ascent of Shishapangma 
            the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the 
            Eight-thousanders.
 1965 Britain's Early Bird satellite begins transmitting TV programmes 
            to more than 300 million viewers. The first programme: 'Out Of This 
            World'
 1968 Israeli television begins transmitting
 1968 In Spain, General Franco orders the closing of the frontier between 
            Spain and Gibraltar
 1969 Britain's latest cruise liner, the Queen 
            Elizabeth II (QE2), the last of the Cunard liners built for transatlantic 
            service, sails on her maiden voyage from Southampton
 1972 Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine - 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1974 Former Vice President Spiro 
            Agnew is disbarred
 1975 Apple records closes down
 1980 Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
 1980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned 
            in South Africa
 1980 Pope John Paul II begins African tour
 1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1981 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
 1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General 
            Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 
            350 men
 1983 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, CA
 1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1986 The 1986 
            World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, opens.
 1988 Jackson 
            Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000
 1989 China imposes Martial Law as the government takes a firm stand 
            against pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square
 1990 South Africa and African National Congress open talks to end 
            apartheid
 1991 Pope 
            John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
 1992 Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic
 1994 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
 1994 Dr Kevokian found innocent on assisting suicides
 1994 Michael Bolton found to have plagiarized Isley Brothers "Love 
            is Wonderful Thing"
 1995 During the Croatian 
            War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, 
            killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians.
 1997 Donald 
            Trump and Marla 
            Maples announce they are separating
 1997 Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone 
            Seiuli with Eddie 
            Murphy
 1998 The European 
            Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute 
            the EU's monetary policy.
 1999 Panamanian election: Mireya 
            Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
 2000 Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS 
            access would no longer be restricted to the U.S. military. .
 2002 Marad massacre 
            of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala
 2004 Yelwa massacre 
            of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
 2005 The Pontiac 
            Grand Am ceases production at the 100 year-old Lansing 
            Car Assembly plant.
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        | Birthdates which 
            occurred on 2nd May : 1551 William Camden 
            English historian (Brittania, Annales) 1601 Athanasius Kircher German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern)
 1660 Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
 1729 Catherine II (the Great) empress of Russia (1762-96)
 1729 Florian Johann Deller composer
 1740 Elias Boudinot lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society
 1752 Ludwig August Lebrun composer
 1754 Vicente Martin y Soler composer
 1768 Jean-Louis M Alibert French dermatologist
 1772 Novalis writer
 1779 John Galt Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd)
 1810 Hans Christian Lumbye composer
 1810 Leo XIII 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
 1817 Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky composer
 1821 Abram Sanders Piatt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died 
            in 1908
 1837 General Henry Martyn Robert parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of 
            Order)
 1840 Theodor Herzl founded Zionist movement
 1843 Carl Michael Ziehrer composer
 1844 Elijah McCoy black inventor, held over 50 patents including a 
            lubricator for steam engines ("the Real McCoy")
 1846 Zygmunt Noskowski composer
 1849 Fürst Bernhard HM von Bülow German chancellor/Prussian 
            PM (1900-09)
 1853 Marie Verstraete actress (Louise-Frou Frou)
 1855 Theodore Moses Tobani composer
 1857 Frederic Cliffe composer
 1859 Eugene D'Harcourt composer
 1860 Sir D'Arcy Thompson zoologist/classicist (On Growth & Form)
 1860 Theodor Herzl Austria, journalist/founder (Zionist movement)
 1862 Marie F M Emmanuel French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
 1869 Tyrone Power Sr London England, actor (Alexanders Ragtime Band)
 1872 G G van der Hoeven Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC)
 1884 François de Vries Dutch economist
 1885 Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry] Hollidaysburg PA, gossip columnist 
            (From Under My Hat)
 1886 Gottfried Benn writer
 1887 Edward Collins New York, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's)
 1890 E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary)
 1892 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [the Red Baron], German WWI ace
 1893 Beppie Nooij Jr Dutch actress (Rooie Sien) [or May 13, 1912]
 1895 Alfred Kurella writer
 1895 Peggy Bacon Ridgefield CT, author/illustrator (Off With Their 
            Heads)
 1898 Jef [Josephus C F] Last Dutch poet/politician (The Spark)
 19-- Matt Thorr rocker (Jailhouse-Alive in a Mad World)
 1900 Helen Morgan singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny)
 1901 Lev N Lunts Russia, writer (Outside the Law, City of Truth)
 1901 Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt cricketer (England batsman 1927-37)
 1901 Willi Bredel writer
 1902 Brian Aherne Worcestershire England, actor (Juarez)
 1902 Erin O'Brien-Moore Los Angeles CA, actress (Peyton Place, Our 
            Little Girl)
 1903 Benjamin Spock New Haven CT, pediatrician/author (Common Sense 
            Book of Baby Care)
 1903 Oivin Fjeldstad composer
 1904 Georgi Dimitrov composer
 1905 Alan Rawsthorne Haslingden England, composer (Cortéges)
 1906 Aileen Riggin Newport RI, springboard diver (Olympics-gold-1920, 
            24)
 1906 Maurice Thiriet composer
 1907 Pinky Lee children's show host (Pinky Lee Show)
 1908 William Bakewell Los Angeles CA, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee 
            Show)
 1910 Laurie Nash cricketer (Tasmanian fast-bowler, 2 Tests for Australia)
 1911 Lillian Rambach teacher violinist
 1912 Axel Springer German newspaper magnate
 1912 Marten Toonder writer/cartoonist (Mr Bommel)
 1913 Nigel Patrick London England, actor/director (Sapphire, Prize 
            of Gold)
 1914 Dennis Dyer cricketer (opened batting for South Africa vs England 
            1947)
 1915 Jan Hanus composer
 1915 Van Alexander New York NY, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
 1918 Frederick Archibauld Warner diplomat
 1919 Than Wyenn New York NY, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues)
 1920 Jacob Gilboa composer
 1921 Satyajit Ray Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary)
 1922 Abraham Rosenthal editor (New York Times)
 1923 Christina Spierenburg Dutch singer
 1924 Aafje Heynis Dutch singer
 1924 Theodore Bikel Austrian/US folk singer/actor (The Russians Are 
            Coming)
 1925 David Ironside cricketer (South Africa swing bowler in 3 Tests 
            vs New Zealand 1953-54)
 1925 John Neville actor (Adventures of Baron Münchausen)
 1925 Roscoe Lee Browne Woodbury NJ, actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap)
 1925 Svatopluk Havelka composer
 1929 Edward Levy Irving composer
 1929 Luc Ferrari composer
 1929 Sydney Gedye cricketer (opening batsman in four Tests for New 
            Zealand 1964)
 1930 Morris Courtright manned spaceflight pioneer and Arizona State 
            legislator
 1932 Bruce Glover Chicago IL, actor (Diamonds are Forever)
 1932 Kees de Galan Dutch economist
 1932 Malcolm Leyland Lipkin composer
 1933 Bunk Gardner rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
 1935 Faisal II King of Iraq (1939-58)/son of Ghasi I
 1935 Hussain ibn Talal King of Jordan (1952-99)
 1935 Link Wray rocker (Link Wray & His Ray Men)
 1936 Michael Rabin New York NY, violinist (In Memorium)
 1936 Quinn Redeker Woodstock IL, actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless)
 1937 Gisela Elsner writer
 1937 Lorenzo Music Brooklyn NY, writer/actor/voice (Carlton the doorman-Rhoda, 
            Garfield)
 1938 Constantine Bereng Seeiso king Moshushoe II of Lesotho
 1940 Bryan Davis cricketer (brother of Charlie; West Indies batsman 
            vs Australia 1965)
 1940 Roger Robinson Seattle WA, actor (Warren-Friends, Newman's Law)
 1940 Sari van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot Dutch MP (VVD)
 1941 Jules Wijdenbosch premier Suriname
 1944 F Innerhofer writer
 1944 John Verity rocker (Argent)
 1945 Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias Jagger Nicaragua, model/Mick's 
            ex-wife
 1945 Bob Henrit English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset)
 1945 Goldy McJohn rocker (Steppenwolf)
 1945 Randy Cain US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics)
 1945 Robert Henrit England, rocker (Argent)
 1946 Lesley Gore Tenafly NJ, singer (It's My Party)
 1947 Bill Lowery (Representative-R-CA, 1981- )
 1947 Jo Ann Pflug Atlanta GA, actress (MASH, Candid Camera, Rituals)
 1948 Larry Gatlin Seminole TX, country singer (Gatlin Brothers-Broken 
            Lady)
 1949 Joey Phillips percussionist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
 1950 Lou Gramm Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-I Want to Know What 
            Love Is)
 1952 Christine Baranski Buffalo NY, actress (Maryann-Cybill, Birdcage)
 1953 "Keith" Jamaal Wilkes NBA forward (Golden State-Rookie 
            of Year 1975)
 1954 Bulelani T Ngcuka South African attorney/leader (UDF)
 1955 Ian Callen cricketer (one Test Australia vs India 1978, six wickets)
 1955 Jay Osmond rocker (Osmond Brothers)
 1955 Joe Callis rocker
 1957 Domonic L Pudwill Gorie Lake Charles LA, USN/astronaut (STS-91)
 1958 Kim Jones Sonoma CA, 5k runner
 1959 Brian Tochi Los Angeles CA, actor (Dr Alan Poe-St Elsewhere, 
            Renegades)
 1960 Ravi Ratnayeke cricketer (Sri Lankan pace bowler & opening 
            batsman)
 1961 Doctor Robert [Bruce R Howard] rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
 1961 Peter Doohan Australia, tennis star
 1962 Elizabeth Berridge Westchester NY, actress (Amadeus, Funhouse)
 1962 Nancy Harvey Swift Current Sask, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-11th)
 1963 Jos van Eck Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
 1963 Kenton Leonard CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
 1964 Kelly Michael Gibson New Orleans LA, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope-7th)
 1967 Kerryn McCann Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
 1968 Reggie Slack CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
 1968 Will Furrer WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
 1969 Brian Lara cricketer (West Indies left-hand bat Smashed world 
            records in 1994)
 1969 Glen Young NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
 1970 Vania Thomas Miss US Virgin Islands Universe (1997)
 1971 Greg Bishop NFL guard (New York Giants)
 1972 Erik Maes Dutch soccer player (MVV)
 1972 Jennifer Miriam Oklahoma City OK, playmate (March, 1997)
 1972 Jill Savery Fort Lauderdale FL, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
 1972 Peter Ogilvie Vancouver British Columbia, 100 meter sprinter 
            (Olympics-96)
 1973 Rich Yurkiewicz NFL/WLAF linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Amst Admirals)
 1974 Miles Joseph West Springfield MA, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
 1975 Mark Johnson Dayton OH, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
 1975 Murray William Burdan Wellington New Zealand, swimmer (Olympics-96)
 1976 Ailleen Damiles Miss Universe-Philippines/Miss Photogenic (1996)
 1976 Nancy Feber Antwerp Belgium, tennis star
 1977 Amy D'Entremont Stoneham MA, figure skater (1995 New England 
            Jr champion)
 1977 Jenna Von Oy actress (Six LeMeure-Blossom)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deaths which occurred 
            on May 2nd:
 0649 Maruta of Tagrit theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies
 1250 Toeransa sultan of Egypt, murdered
 1459 Pierozzi Antoninus Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies
 1488 Jacob van Horne Burgundy statesman, dies
 1519 Leonardo Da Vinci artist/scientist, dies at 67
 1567 Marin Drzic Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
 1669 Pieter Jansz Post master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61
 1685 Adriaen van Ostade Dutch painter, buried
 1727 Paul Aler French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70
 1736 Albert Seba Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71
 1799 Henri-Joseph Rigel composer, dies at 58
 1818 Herman W Daendels Governor-General of Guinea (1815-18), dies 
            at 55
 1845 August Pauly German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
 1849 David H Chassé Baron/General (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), 
            dies at 84
 1857 LC Alfred the Musset French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), 
            dies
 1864 Giacomo Meyerbeer composer, dies at 72
 1892 Wilhelm Rust composer, dies at 69
 1897 William Cleaver Francis Robinson composer, dies at 63
 1919 Gustav Landauer German socialist, dies
 1937 Arthur Somervell composer, dies at 73
 1945 Martin Bormann propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
 1954 Pauline de Cock-Manifarges singer, dies at 82
 1955 Tadeusz Jarecki composer, dies at 66
 1957 Joseph McCarthy commie hunting senator (R-WI), dies at 47
 1957 Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern composer, dies at 53
 1958 Alfred Weber German economist/sociologist, dies at 89
 1959 Yrlö Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer, dies at 67
 1960 Caryl Chessman rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
 1961 J C White cricketer (49 wickets in 15 Tests for England 1921-31), 
            dies
 1963 Jack Crawford cricketer (469 runs & 39 wickets in 12 Tests), 
            dies
 1963 Tomas Vackar composer, dies at 17
 1963 Van Wyck Brooks US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 
            77
 1964 Nancy N Witcher Astor US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
 1968 Donald L Hall airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 
            69
 1969 Franz von Papen German chancellor (1932), dies at 89
 1972 Hugo Hartung writer, dies at 69
 1972 J Edgar Hoover head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77
 1973 Alan Carney actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61
 1980 Clarrie Grimmett cricket (36 Tests for Australia, 216 wickets), 
            dies
 1982 Helmut Dantine
 1982 Hugh Marlowe actor (Ellery Queen, Jim Matthews-Another World), 
            dies at 71
 1983 Marius F Duintjer architect, dies
 1984 Jack Barry game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
 1984 Piet van Aken Flemish writer (Failing God, Niggers), dies at 
            64
 1985 Hal LeRoy dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after cardiac 
            surgery
 1985 Milton S Eisenhower US diplomat, dies at 85
 1990 David Rappaport 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself 
            at 38
 1990 Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49
 1990 William Levi Dawson composer, dies at 90
 1991 Hal Bell dies at 65
 1991 Leib Lensky dies at 82
 1992 Joey Cuevas dancer, dies at 34
 1992 Lee Salk baby doctor/author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
 1992 Margareth Wallmann Austrian opera director, dies at 88
 1992 Philip Dunne screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84
 1992 Wilbur Mills (Representative-D-AR)/involved with Fanne Foxe, 
            dies at 82
 1993 Julio Gallo wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82
 1993 Will Weng Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies 
            at 86
 1994 Louis Calaferte writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65
 1994 Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin hero, dies at 75
 1996 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton civil servant, dies at 97
 1996 Emile Habibi writer, dies at 73
 1996 Peter John Swales football club chairman, dies at 63
 1995 Michael Hordern actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83
 
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