Historical Events on May 2

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• 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

• 1526 German evangelical monarchy joins the Schmalkaldic League

• 1598 France & Spain sign Peace of Vervins
• 1660 Battle of Long Sault begins between 17 French colonist militia, their Huron and Algonquin allies and a large Iroquois army (credited with saving settlement of Ville-Marie) [1]
• 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1st peace of Aachen: ends War of Devolution, French-Spanish war in The Netherlands

• 1672 John Maitland, administrator of Scotland for Charles II, made the Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March
• 1703 Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
• 1749 Austrian Empress Maria Theresa signs new economic state reforms to be administrated by her chief advisor Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz
• 1750 Carlo Goldoni's comedy "La Botega di Caffè" (The Coffee Shop) premieres in Mantua
• 1776 France and Spain agreed to supply weapons to American rebels

• 1808 Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
• 1809 Dartmoor Prison in England opens to house French prisoners of war
• 1824 Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)
• 1829 After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia
• 1833 Russian Tsar Nicolas I bans the public sale of serfs
• 1845 Argentinian Domingo Sarmiento publishes his anti-tyranny work "Facundo Civilización y Barbarie"
• 1853 Franconi's Hippodrome opens in New York City
• 1863 South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia

• 1866 Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao
• 1869 The Folies Trévise (later cabaret hall Folies Bergère) opens as an opera house in Paris, France
• 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 first published in the US by Clark W. Bryan

• 1890 Territory of Oklahoma created - exists until 1907

• 1907 Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian government
• 1908 Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer register their popular song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" for copyright

• 1911 French troops occupy Fès El Bali, Morocco
• 1915 Bronx, New York City; Old Fordham Road renamed Landing Road
• 1916 In the Bronx, New York City: 2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Place 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

• 1924 Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR

• 1925 Kezar Stadium opens in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
• 1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua
• 1927 International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
• 1927 Pulitzer prize for a Novel awarded to Louis Bromfield for "Early Autumn"
• 1927 U.S. Supreme Court's "Buck v. Bell", permits forced sterilizations of various "unfits" by states' authorities where such surgeries are practiced for eugenic reasons
• 1928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions

• 1930 Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights

• 1934 Nazi Germany begins People's Court

• 1941 FCC approves regular scheduled commercial TV broadcasts to begin July 1

• 1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands lays off Jewish journalists
• 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, Northern Germany

• 1945 Indian and British troops successfully occupy Rangoon, capital of Burma after Japanese forces evacuate the city
• 1945 More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria
• 1945 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste, Italy

• 1946 The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates

• 1949 Bolivian state of siege proclaimed
• 1950 Carlo Terron's comedy "Giuditta" premieres in Milan
• 1950 Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
• 1950 Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not People's Republic of China
• 1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Comet from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers [1]
• 1952 John Cage's "Water Music" - for a solo pianist, using a piano, a radio, whistles, water containers, and a deck of cards - premieres in New York City
• 1953 Feisal II installed as King of Iraq
• 1953 Hussein I installed as King of Jordan
• 1953 KYTL (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Mesa/Phoenix, Arizona AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting with a telethon to benefit United Cerebral Palsy

• 1955 India proposal to discrimination against Dalits or "Untouchables" punishable

• 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

• 1958 Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast, games into NYC
• 1960 Allen Drury wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel "Advise and Consent"

• 1960 US House of Representative investigating committee, looking into payola questions in broadcasting
• 1962 French paramilitary and terrorist organization the Secret Army organization (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 First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and lowest of the Eight-thousanders
• 1964 Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
• 1964 The Beatles' "The Beatles' Second Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
• 1965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service

• 1968 Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
• 1968 Israeli television begins transmitting

• 1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves Southampton on its maiden voyage to NY
• 1970 KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 1972 126 killed in an electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine, Kellogg, Idaho
• 1972 General Vernon A. Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
• 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 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
• 1978 1978 NFL Draft: Earl Campbell from University of Texas first pick by Houston Oilers
• 1979 -May 10] Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 1979 Film "Quadrophenia" premieres in London, based on The Who's rock opera "Tommy"
• 1980 Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men are arrested for murder

• 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 is sunk by British submarine HMS Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
• 1983 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California
• 1984 MLB Cleveland Indians' infielder Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 innings)

• 1984 US performs underground nuclear test "Orkney" at Nevada Test Site, with an estimated 250 ton yield
• 1985 US performs underground nuclear test "Towanda" at Nevada Test Site, with an estimated 150 ton yield
• 1986 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC

• 1988 Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Baltimore and get a new park

• 1989 Hungary's reform government led by Miklós Németh cuts a hole in the electric wire fence between it and Austria beginning the fall of the Iron Curtain [1]
• 1990 South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
• 1991 Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
• 1992 Yugoslav Army seizes Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic
• 1994 A bus crashes into a tree at Gdańsk, Poland, killing 32 people
• 1994 American pathologist and euthanasia advocate Jack Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
• 1994 Michael Bolton found to have plagiarized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"
• 1995 Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
• 1995 Serbian missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six

• 1997 Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber

• 1997 Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
• 1998 Battle of Hogwarts: fictional battle that ended the Second Wizarding War with the death of Lord Voldemort at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

• 1999 Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama
• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 2013 100 people are killed by the Syrian Army in a raid on al-Bayda, Baniyas
• 2013 14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in attacks in Fallujah, Iraq
• 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
• 2014 The Kiev regime launch a raid against pro-Russian forces, who respond by shooting down two helicopters
• 2015 Celtic wins the 2014–15 Scottish Premiership

• 2015 Toulon win the 2015 European Rugby Champions Cup final at Twickenham
• 2016 Leicester City win the English Premier League title after starting the season at 5,000-1 odds
• 2016 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Mark Selby of England beats China's Ding Junhui, 18-14 for his second world crown
• 2018 Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan asks widespread protests to halt after ruling Republican party said it would support his bid to be Prime Minister
• 2018 Date for first humans or hominins in the Philippines pushed back ten-fold after report of site on Luzon with butchered rhinoceros 709,000 years ago
• 2018 E. coli outbreak linked to Romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, reports the first fatality with 121 cases across 25 US states
• 2018 Indian city of Kanpur declared world's most polluted city by WHO with 14 other Indian cities in the top 20
• 2018 Iowa passes US's strictest abortion ban, based on a fetal heartbeat

• 2018 New research show plants "talk" to each other through their roots and the soil in study on corn published in journal "Plos One"
• 2018 Spanish Basque separatist group Eta announces it will be formally disbanding after 50 years
• 2019 A clean-up on Mt Everest has removed three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of rubbish and four bodies in just two weeks
• 2019 Drone delivers a kidney for transplant surgery in Baltimore, Maryland, for the first time

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