SomeFacts | May 2

On this day - May 2

1194 — King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first royal ...

1230 — William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.

1536 — Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on ...

1559 — John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader ...

1568 — Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Lochleven Castle.

1611 — The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first ...

1625 — Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch ...

1670 — King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the ...

1808 — Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up ...

1812 — The Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ...

1829 — After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS ...

1863 — American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly ...

1866 — Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle ...

1867 — Albert Günther publishes the first study to recognise that the ...

1876 — The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.

1885 — Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, ...

1889 — Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, ...

1906 — Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.

1920 — The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played ...

1933 — Germany's independent labor unions are replaced by the ...

1941 — World War II: Following the coup d'état against Iraq ...

1945 — World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border ...

1945 — World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin ...

1945 — World War II: The surrender of Caserta comes into effect, by ...

1945 — World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.

1952 — A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with ...

1963 — Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a ...

1964 — First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain ...

1964 — Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier ...

1969 — The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her ...

1970 — ALM Flight 980 ditches in the Caribbean Sea near Saint Croix, ...

1972 — In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine ...

1982 — Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror ...

1986 — Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six ...

1989 — Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with ...

1995 — During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the ...

1998 — The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to ...

1999 — Panamanian general election: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first ...

2000 — President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access ...

2004 — The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when ...

2008 — Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the ...

2008 — Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 ...

2011 — An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving ...

2011 — Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September ...

2012 — A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard ...

2014 — Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 ...