Notable Historical Events on May 2nd
May 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1194 |
King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. |
1230 |
William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. |
1335 |
Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia. |
1345 |
"Quaden Maendach" in Ghent: battles between fullers & weavers |
1497 |
John Cabot's expedition departs Bristol searching for new lands across the Atlantic |
1526 |
German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League |
1536 |
Anne Boleyn is arrested and taken to the Tower of London |
1595 |
King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Netherlands |
1598 |
France & Spain sign Peace of Vervins |
1668 |
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle/1st peace of Aachen: ends War of Devolution, French-Spanish war in The Netherlands |
1670 |
King Charles II gives royal charter to the Hudson's Bay Company |
1672 |
John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March. |
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 & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels |
1780 |
William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris |
1783 |
Architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant is promoted by brevet to Major of Engineers in recognition of his service to American liberty |
1808 |
Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid |
1824 |
Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald) |
1829 |
After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia. |
1833 |
Russian Tsar Nicolas I bans public sale of serfs |
1845 |
Argentinian Domingo Sarmiento publishes his anti-tyranny work "Facundo Civilización y Barbarie" |
1847 |
Sabbath famine |
1853 |
Franconi's Hippodrome opens (NYC) |
1863 |
South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va |
1863 |
Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men |
1865 |
US President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis |
1866 |
Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao. |
1876 |
Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League |
1876 |
The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria. |
1878 |
US stops minting 20 cent coin |
1885 |
"Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published |
1885 |
Congo Free State formed by King Leopold II of Belgium |
1887 |
Gioacchino 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 |
George Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" premieres in London |
1903 |
29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker riding Judge Himes wins in 2:09 |
1904 |
30th Kentucky Derby: Shorty Prior riding Elwood wins in 2:08.50 |
1905 |
French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work |
1906 |
32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8 |
1906 |
Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dismisses his moderate Prime Minister Witte and appoints Ivan Goremykin, a conservative bureaucrat |
1907 |
Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian government |
1908 |
1908 "Take me out to the Ball Game" registered for copyright. |
1909 |
Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs |
1911 |
French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco |
1915 |
Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road |
1916 |
US president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act |
1916 |
2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named |
1917 |
Cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0 |
1918 |
General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. |
1920 |
1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis |
1921 |
Start of 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper Silesia |
1922 |
WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Fort Worth, Texas |
1923 |
Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0 |
1924 |
Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR |
1925 |
Kezar Stadium opens in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park |
1926 |
US military intervenes in Nicaragua |
1927 |
Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens |
1927 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) |
1928 |
KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions |
1929 |
Billie Holiday (14) and her mother are arrested for prostitution following a raid of a brothel in Harlem |
1930 |
Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights |
1932 |
Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network) |
1932 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth) |
1933 |
In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions |
1934 |
Nazi-Germany begins People's court |
1934 |
Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Russian Chemist (commercial synthetic rubber), dies at 59 |
1936 |
"Peter & the Wolf" premieres in Moscow |
1936 |
62nd Kentucky Derby: Ira Hanford aboard Bold Venture wins in 2:03.6 |
1936 |
Emperor Haile Selassie & family flee Abyssinia |
1938 |
Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" |
1938 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town) |
1939 |
Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2 |
1941 |
FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1 |
1941 |
Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy |
1941 |
Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists |
1941 |
Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400 |
1942 |
68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4 |
1942 |
Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma |
1943 |
German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia |
1944 |
WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast |
1945 |
Allies occupy Wismar |
1945 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen |
1945 |
German Army in Italy surrenders |
1945 |
WWII: Battle of Berlin end as Russian army takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders |
1945 |
Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste |
1946 |
Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die |
1946 |
The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates. |
1947 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten" premieres in NYC |
1949 |
Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" |
1949 |
Bolivian state of siege proclaimed |
1949 |
Don Newcombe, 1st start, shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0 |
1950 |
Carlo Terrons "Giuditta" premieres in Milan |
1950 |
Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration |
1950 |
Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China People's Republic |
1952 |
1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music" |
1952 |
1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet |
1952 |
Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers |
1953 |
79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02 |
1953 |
Feisal II installed as king of Iraq |
1953 |
Hussein I installed as king of Jordan |
1954 |
Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader |
1955 |
India proposal to discrimination against Dalits or "Untouchables" punishable |
1955 |
Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) |
1955 |
WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus |
1956 |
US Methodist church disallows racial separation |
1957 |
Gangster Frank Costello escapes an assassination attempt made by rival mobsters |
1958 |
Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into NYC |
1959 |
85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2 |
1960 |
Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance |
1960 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent) |
1960 |
"American Bandstand's" Dick Clark |
1960 |
House investigating committee, looking into payola questions |
1962 |
Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I |
1962 |
OAS strikes in Algeria |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1962 |
WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, NY (PBS) 1st broadcast |
1964 |
90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00 |
1964 |
Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks |
1964 |
Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
1964 |
First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders. |
1965 |
"New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances |
1965 |
Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service |
1965 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational |
1965 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
1966 |
Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days) |
1967 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2 |
1968 |
1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony |
1968 |
22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2 |
1968 |
Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London |
1968 |
Israeli television begins transmitting |
1969 |
British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY |
1970 |
1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump) |
1970 |
96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4 |
1970 |
KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1971 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1972 |
Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg, Idaho) |
1972 |
Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA |
1972 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1974 |
Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred |
1974 |
Six Catholic civilians killed and eighteen wounded when the UVF explode a bomb at Rose & Crown Bar on Ormeau Road, Belfast |
1975 |
Apple records closes down |
1976 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
1977 |
"King & I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances |
1978 |
NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games |
1979 |
"Quadrophenia" premieres in London |
1979 |
-May 10] Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
1979 |
14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell |
1980 |
Joseph Doherty & 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 |
107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02 |
1981 |
Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes |
1982 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
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 Calif |
1984 |
"Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth NYC for 604 perfs |
1984 |
Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn) |
1984 |
Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid |
1984 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1985 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1986 |
Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II |
1986 |
Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC |
1987 |
113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4 |
1988 |
Balt Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt & get a new park |
1988 |
David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" premieres in NYC |
1988 |
Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000 |
1988 |
Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump |
1990 |
"Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 perfs |
1990 |
South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid |
1991 |
Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus |
1992 |
"High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" opens at H Hayes NYC 14 perfs |
1992 |
118th Kentucky Derby: Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 2:03 |
1992 |
Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian Pres Alija Izetbegovic |
1993 |
"5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 445 perfs |
1993 |
"Candida" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances |
1993 |
"Redwood Curtain" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 40 perfs |
1993 |
"Tango Passion" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1993 |
Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic |
1993 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament |
1994 |
Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 32 killed |
1994 |
Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides |
1994 |
Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing" |
1995 |
"Hamlet" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 121 performances |
1995 |
Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning |
1995 |
Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six |
1997 |
Donald Trump & Marla Maples announce they are separating |
1997 |
Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber |
1997 |
Police arrest transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy |
1997 |
Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders |
1998 |
124th Kentucky Derby: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 2:02.20 |
1998 |
The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy. |
1999 |
Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. |
1999 |
John Elway announces his retirement from the NFL |
2000 |
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Apeldoorn and the other in Ottawa on May 11, 2000. Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II. |
2000 |
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. |
2002 |
Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala. |
2004 |
Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria. |
2008 |
Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. |
2008 |
The critically acclaimed "Iron Man", starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, is released |
2009 |
135th Kentucky Derby: Calvin Borel aboard Mine That Bird wins in 2:02.66 |
2011 |
Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. |
2011 |
The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak. |
2012 |
Edvard Munch's famous painting 'The Scream' sells at auction for $119,922,500 |
2012 |
Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals |
2013 |
14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in attacks in Fallujah, Iraq |
2013 |
100 people are killed by the Syrian Army in a raid on al-Bayda, Baniyas |
2013 |
60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan |
2013 |
Rhode Island becomes the tenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage |
2015 |
141st [Kentucky Derby]: Victor Espinoza aboard American Pharoah wins in 2:03.02 |
2016 |
Puerto Rico to default on debt payment after talks fail |
2016 |
US cruise ship travels to Cuba for first time in decades |
2017 |
Hamas says supports Palestinian state along 1967 borders |
2017 |
NKorea says it will speed up nuke program in response to US |
2018 |
South Korea says it wants US troops to stay regardless of any treaty with North Korea |
2018 |
Love it or not, Facebook launches dating service |
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