About May 2
May 2, 2024 is the 123rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 243 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 272 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 2
- 1194 –King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
- 1568 –Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
- 1611 –King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
- 1672 –John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
- 1866 –Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
- 1885 –The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
- 1920 –The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- 1932 –Comedian Jack Benny’s radio show airs for the first time.
- 1945 –World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.
- 1945 –World War II: Italian Campaign – General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy.
- 1945 –World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead inmates, most starved to death.
- 1946 –The “Battle of Alcatraz” takes place, killing two guards and three inmates.
- 1955 –Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- 1963 –Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
- 1994 –In a bus disaster in Poland, 32 people die.
- 1995 –During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians.
- 1999 –Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
- 2000 –President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
- 2004 –Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
- 2008 –Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
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