About May 2
May 2, 2025 is the 122nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 243 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 291 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 2
- 1230 –William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
- 1335 –Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
- 1559 –John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.
- 1568 –Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
- 1670 –King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson’s Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
- 1672 –John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
- 1808 –Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
- 1816 –Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta.
- 1829 –After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
- 1885 –Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
- 1906 –Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
- 1918 –General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
- 1955 –Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- 1963 –Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
- 1964 –First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
- 1989 –Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
- 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.
- 2004 –Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
- 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.
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