May 2nd is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years) and this day has seen several historic events as well as the births of famous people such as former football player David Beckham and actor/wrestler Dwayne Johnson.
Facts
1335 – Duke Othon of Austria becomes Duke of Carinthia.
1536 – The Queen of England, Anne Boleyn, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1559 – John Knox returns to Scotland from exile to become the leader of the Scottish Reformation.
1568 – Queen Mary I of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1808 – The Iberian Peninsular War breaks out: The people of Madrid rise up against the French occupation. Francisco Goya later captured this event in the painting The 2nd of May 1808.
1816 – Leopold of Saxe-Coburg marries Princess Charlotte of Wales.
1863 – American Civil War: Thomas Jackson is wounded by friendly fire returning to camp after a battle. He would succumb to pneumonia eight days later.
1879 – The Spanish Socialist Labor Party is founded in Madrid by Pavlos Iglesias.
1889 – Italy gains control of Eritrea.
1906 – Closing ceremony of the Mid-Olympic Games in Athens.
1918 – General Motors acquires Chevrolet in Delaware.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
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1964 – First ascent of Sissapangma, the 14th highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the eight thousand meter peaks.
1982 – Falklands War: British nuclear submarine sinks Argentine cruiser General Belgrano.
Births
1451 – Rene II, Duke of Lorraine
1551 – William Camden, English historian
1602 – Athanasios Kircher, German scholar
1660 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer
1729 – Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
1746 – Robert Lede, French politician
1772 – Novalis, German poet
1802 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist
1860 – Theodor Herzl, Hungarian journalist
1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot
1896 – Princess Helen of Greece
1902 – Brian Ahern, English actor
1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
1935 – Luis Suarez, Spanish football player and coach
1938 – Mosesoe II, King of Lesotho
1939 – Taomati Yuta, politician from Kiribati
1941 – Jules Weidenbosch, president of Suriname
1942 – Alexis Mardas, Greek electronic engineer
1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian president of the International Olympic Committee
1944 – Kim Jong Il, North Korean politician
1960 – Gjorge Ivanov, president of North Macedonia
1970 – George Galitis, Greek actor
1972 – Dwayne Johnson, American wrestler and actor
1975 – David Beckham, English football player
1978 – Didier Domy, French footballer
1978 – Yiannis Skopelitis, Greek football player
1996 – Julian Brandt, German soccer player
2015 – Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
Deaths
373 – Athanasius, patriarch of Alexandria
907 – Boris I, ruler of the Bulgarian Empire
1219 – Leo II, king of Armenia
1277 – Baibars, Sultan of Egypt and Syria
1302 – White of Artois, Queen of Navarre
1437 – Gion Kastrioti, Albanian lord
1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter
1706 – Georg Josef Kamel, Czech missionary and botanist
1777 – Johann am Ende, German theologian, educator and writer
1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer
1900 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter
1918 – Amilcare Cipriani, Italian anarchist
1925 – Johann Paliza, Austrian astronomer
1929 – Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek soldier
1938 – Madame Hortens, French prostitute
1941 – Penelope Delta, Greek writer
1943 – Xenophon Kasdaglis, Greek striker
1943 – Viktor Lutsche, German soldier
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1957 – Joseph McCarthy, American politician
1961 – Christos Goulopoulos, Greek politician
1962 – Sigmund Lewe, East German engineer and businessman
1969 – Franz von Papen, German politician
1971 – Ioannis Papartemiou, Greek military and politician
1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, American official
1982 – Evangelos Papanoutsos, Greek philosopher and writer
1998 – Hide, Japanese songwriter (X Japan)
1998 – Vangelis Seilinos, Greek dancer and choreographer
2007 – Abdul Sabour Farid Kohistani, Afghan politician
2010 – Kama Shinen, Japanese centenarian
2011 – Osama bin Laden, Arab terrorist, founder and leader of Al Qaeda
2013 – Lefteris Vogiatzis, Greek actor and director
2013 – Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (Slayer)
2015 – Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballerina
2022 – Paul Metropolitan of Drama
2022 – Aleka Lambrinou Greek actress
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