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
- 1194 –King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
- 1568 –Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
- 1757 –End of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757)
- 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.
- 1866 –Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
- 1879 –The Spanish Socialist Worker‘s Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub (city of Madrid) by the historical Spanish workers’leader Pablo Iglesias.
- 1885 –The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
- 1906 –Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
- 1918 –General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
- 1920 –The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- 1945 –World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead inmates, most starved to death.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship.
- 1969 –The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
- 1982 –Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
- 1989 –Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
- 1994 –In a bus disaster in Poland, 32 people die.
- 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.
- 2008 –Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
- 2011 –Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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