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02 May 1230
William de Braose 10th Baron Abergavenny is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great
02 May 1335
Otto the Merry Duke of Austria becomes Duke of Carinthia
02 May 1345
Quaden Maendach in Ghent battles between fullers & weavers
02 May 1526
German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldic League
02 May 1668
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle 1st peace of Aachen ends War of Devolution French-Spanish war in The Netherlands
02 May 1672
John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
02 May 1703
Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
02 May 1749
Empress Maria Theresa signs Haugwitzschen State reform
02 May 1750
Carlo Goldonis La Botega di Caff premieres in Mantua
02 May 1776
France & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
02 May 1808
Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
02 May 1829
After anchoring nearby Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger declares the Swan River Colony in Australia
02 May 1833
Russian Tsar Nicolas I bans public sale of serfs
02 May 1845
Argentinian Domingo Sarmiento publishes his anti-tyranny work Facundo Civilizacin y Barbarie
02 May 1863
South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville Virginia
02 May 1866
Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao
02 May 1876
Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
02 May 1885
Congo Free State formed by King Leopold II of Belgium
02 May 1887
Gioacchino Rossinis corpse transfered to Santa Croce Florence
02 May 1889
Abyssinian Emperor Menelik II and Italy sign Treaty of Wichale
02 May 1903
29th Kentucky Derby Hal Booker riding Judge Himes wins in 209
02 May 1904
30th Kentucky Derby Shorty Prior riding Elwood wins in 208.50
02 May 1906
32nd Kentucky Derby Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 208.8
02 May 1908
Take me out to the Ball Game registered for copyright.
02 May 1915
Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
02 May 1916
2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named
02 May 1917
Cin Fred Tooney & Chics Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run in 10th so Cin wins 1-0
02 May 1918
General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
02 May 1920
1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
02 May 1921
Start of 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper Silesia
02 May 1922
WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Fort Worth Texas
02 May 1925
Kezar Stadium opens in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park
02 May 1927
International Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
02 May 1927
Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
02 May 1927
U.S. Supreme Courts Buck v. Bell permits forced sterilizations of various unfits by states authorities where such surgeries are practiced for eugenic reasons
02 May 1928
KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
02 May 1930
Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights
02 May 1932
Jack Bennys 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
02 May 1932
Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
02 May 1936
Sergei Prokofievs musical Peter and the Wolf premieres in Moscow
02 May 1936
62nd Kentucky Derby Ira Hanford aboard Bold Venture wins in 203.6
02 May 1938
Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for his play Our Town
02 May 1941
FCC approves regular scheduled commercial TV broadcasts to begin July 1
02 May 1941
Nazi occupied Netherlands lays off Jewish journalists
02 May 1942
68th Kentucky Derby Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 204.4
02 May 1944
WABD (WNEW now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUMMETFOX) 1st broadcast
02 May 1945
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen
02 May 1945
More than 1000000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria
02 May 1946
The Battle of Alcatraz takes place killing two guards and three inmates
02 May 1947
Eugene ONeills Moon for the Misbegotten premieres in NYC
02 May 1949
Don Newcombe 1st start shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0
02 May 1950
Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not Peoples Republic of China
02 May 1952
1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
02 May 1952
Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
02 May 1953
79th Kentucky Derby Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 202
02 May 1955
India proposal to discrimination against Dalits or Untouchables punishable
02 May 1955
WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
02 May 1956
US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
02 May 1956
US Methodist church disallows racial separation
02 May 1958
Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast games into NYC
02 May 1959
85th Kentucky Derby Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 202.2
02 May 1960
Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
02 May 1960
House investigating committee looking into payola questions
02 May 1962
WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro NY (PBS) 1st broadcast
02 May 1962
7th European Cup Benfica beats Real Madrid 5-3 at Amsterdam
02 May 1964
90th Kentucky Derby Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 200
02 May 1964
Beatles Beatles 2nd Album goes 1 & stays 1 for 5 weeks
02 May 1964
Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha to become NWA champ
02 May 1964
First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and lowest of the Eight-thousanders
02 May 1965
New Faces of opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances
02 May 1965
Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
02 May 1966
Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
02 May 1968
1st performance of Roger Sessions 8th Symphony
02 May 1968
22nd NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers 4 games to 2
02 May 1968
Gold reaches then record high (39.35 per ounce) in London
02 May 1969
British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves Southampton on maiden voyage to NY
02 May 1970
1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
02 May 1970
96th Kentucky Derby Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 203.4
02 May 1970
KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
02 May 1972
126 killed in an electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine Kellogg Idaho
02 May 1972
Lt General Vernon A Walters USA becomes deputy director of CIA
02 May 1974
Six Catholic civilians killed and eighteen wounded when the UVF explode a bomb at Rose & Crown Bar on Ormeau Road Belfast
02 May 1977
The King & I opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances
02 May 1978
NBA championship Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games
02 May 1978
NFL Draft Earl Campbell from University of Texas first pick by Houston Oilers
02 May 1979
-May 10] Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride cycling 187 hrs 28 min around Vihara Maha Devi Park Colombo Sri Lanka
02 May 1980
Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
02 May 1981
107th Kentucky Derby Jorge Velsquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 202
02 May 1981
Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
02 May 1982
Falklands War Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror killing more than 350 men
02 May 1983
6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga California
02 May 1984
Sunday in the Park with George opens at Booth NYC for 604 performances
02 May 1984
Indians Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn)
02 May 1984
Mattinglys single breaks up Lamarr Hoyts perfect game bid
02 May 1987
113th Kentucky Derby Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 203.4
02 May 1988
Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Baltimore and get a new park
02 May 1988
David Mamets Speed-the-Plow premieres in NYC
02 May 1989
Killin Time debut album by Clint Black is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1990)
02 May 1990
Some Americans Abroad opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 performances
02 May 1990
South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
02 May 1992
High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club opens at H Hayes NYC 14 performances
02 May 1992
118th Kentucky Derby Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 203
02 May 1992
Yugoslav Army seizes Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic
02 May 1993
5 Guys Named Moe closes at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC after 445 performances
02 May 1993
Candida closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
02 May 1993
Redwood Curtain closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 40 performances
02 May 1993
Tango Passion closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
02 May 1994
Bus crashes into a tree at Gdask Poland 32 killed
02 May 1994
Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
02 May 1994
Michael Bolton found to have plagurized Isley Bros Love is Wonderful Thing
02 May 1995
Hamlet opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 121 performances
02 May 1995
Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
02 May 1995
Serbian missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb killing six
02 May 1997
Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber
02 May 1997
Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
02 May 1998
124th Kentucky Derby Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 202.20
02 May 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
02 May 1999
Panamanian election Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama
02 May 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 . Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II.
02 May 2002
Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala
02 May 2004
Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria
02 May 2008
Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130000 people and leaving millions of people homeless
02 May 2009
135th Kentucky Derby Calvin Borel wins aboard 50-1 long shot Mine That Bird
02 May 1595
King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Netherlands
02 May 1869
The Folies Trvise (later cabaret hall Folies Bergre) opens as an opera house in Paris France
02 May 1962
European Cup Final Amsterdam Eusbio scores twice as defending champions Benfica beat Real Madrid 5-3 Pusks hits all 3 for Madrid
02 May 1809
Dartmoor Prison in England opens to house French prisoners of war
02 May 1993
Lanford Wilsons play Redwood Curtain closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 40 performances
02 May 1908
Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer register their popular song Take Me Out to the Ball Game for copyright
02 May 1915
Bronx New York City Old Fordham Road renamed Landing Road
02 May 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
02 May 1952
John Cages Water Music (for a solo pianist using a piano a radio whistles water containers and a deck of cards) premieres in New York City
02 May 1952
1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Comet from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers [1]
02 May 1968
Roger Sessions 8th Symphony premiers in New York City with William Steinberg conducting the New York Philharmonic
02 May 1984
MLB Cleveland Indians infielder Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 innings)
02 May 1984
US performs underground nuclear test Orkney at Nevada Test Site with an estimated 250 ton yield
02 May 1985
US performs underground nuclear test Towanda at Nevada Test Site with an estimated 150 ton yield
02 May 1992
Allen Toussaints musical revue High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club closes at the Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 13 performances
02 May 1993
Lanford Wilsons play Redwood Curtain closes at Brooks Atkinson Theatre NYC after 40 performances
02 May 1994
Michael Bolton found to have plagiarized Isley Bros Love is Wonderful Thing
02 May 2011
The E. coli O104H4 outbreak strikes Europe mostly in Germany leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
02 May 1953
KYTL (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in MesaPhoenix Arizona AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting with a telethon to benefit United Cerebral Palsy
02 May 1960
Allen Drury wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Advise and Consent
02 May 1960
US House of Representative investigating committee looking into payola questions in broadcasting
02 May 2009
135th Kentucky Derby Calvin Borel wins aboard 50-1 long shot Mine That Bird after running dead last until the final turn
02 May 1526
German evangelical monarchy joins the Schmalkaldic League
02 May 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]
02 May 1672
John Maitland administrator of Scotland for Charles II made the Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March
02 May 1749
Austrian Empress Maria Theresa signs new economic state reforms to be administrated by her chief advisor Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz
02 May 1750
Carlo Goldonis comedy La Botega di Caff (The Coffee Shop) premieres in Mantua
02 May 1776
France and Spain agreed to supply weapons to American rebels
02 May 1833
Russian Tsar Nicolas I bans the public sale of serfs
02 May 1885
Good Housekeeping magazine is first published in the US by Clark W. Bryan
02 May 1890
Territory of Oklahoma created - exists until 1907
02 May 1927
Pulitzer prize for a Novel awarded to Louis Bromfield for Early Autumn
02 May 1945
Indian and British troops successfully occupy Rangoon capital of Burma after Japanese forces evacuate the city
02 May 1950
Carlo Terrons comedy Giuditta premieres in Milan
02 May 1962
French paramilitary and terrorist organization the Secret Army organization (OAS) strikes in Algeria
02 May 1964
The Beatles The Beatles Second Album goes 1 & stays 1 for 5 weeks
02 May 1966
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. for A Thousand Days about JFKs presidency
02 May 1969
British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves Southampton on its maiden voyage to NY
02 May 1972
General Vernon A. Walters USA becomes deputy director of CIA
02 May 1979
Film Quadrophenia premieres in London based on The Whos rock opera Tommy
02 May 1980
Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men are arrested for murder
02 May 1989
Hungarys reform government led by Mikls Nmeth cuts a hole in the electric wire fence between it and Austria beginning the fall of the Iron Curtain [1]
02 May 1991
Pope John Paul IIs encyclical on Centesimus annus
02 May 1994
A bus crashes into a tree at Gdask Poland killing 32 people
02 May 1994
American pathologist and euthanasia advocate Jack Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
02 May 2013
100 people are killed by the Syrian Army in a raid on al-Bayda Baniyas
02 May 2013
14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in attacks in Fallujah Iraq
02 May 2013
60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir North Darfur Sudan
02 May 2013
Rhode Island becomes the tenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage
02 May 2014
The Kiev regime launch a raid against pro-Russian forces who respond by shooting down two helicopters
02 May 2015
Celtic wins the 201415 Scottish Premiership
02 May 2015
Toulon win the European Rugby Champions Cup final at Twickenham
02 May 2016
Leicester City win the English Premier League title after starting the season at 5000-1 odds
02 May 2016
World Snooker Championship Crucible Theatre Sheffield Mark Selby of England beats Chinas Ding Junhui 18-14 for his second world crown
02 May 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
02 May 2018
Date for first humans or hominins in the Philippines pushed back ten-fold after report of site on Luzon with butchered rhinoceros 709000 years ago
02 May 2018
E. coli outbreak linked to Romaine lettuce grown in Yuma Arizona reports the first fatality with 121 cases across 25 US states
02 May 2018
Indian city of Kanpur declared worlds most polluted city by WHO with 14 other Indian cities in the top 20
02 May 2018
Iowa passes USs strictest abortion ban based on a fetal heartbeat
02 May 2018
New research show plants talk to each other through their roots and the soil in study on corn published in journal Plos One
02 May 2018
Spanish Basque separatist group Eta announces it will be formally disbanding after 50 years
02 May 2019
A clean-up on Mt Everest has removed three metric tons (6613 pounds) of rubbish and four bodies in just two weeks
02 May 2019
Drone delivers a kidney for transplant surgery in Baltimore Maryland for the first time