About May 2
May 2, 2024 is the 123rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 243 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 272 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.
- 1230 –William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
- 1536 –Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
- 1568 –Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
- 1611 –King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
- 1672 –John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
- 1876 –The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
- 1885 –Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
- 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.
- 1932 –Comedian Jack Benny’s radio show airs for the first time.
- 1941 –Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power.
- 1964 –First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
- 1972 –In the early morning hours a fire broke out at the Sunshine mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers.
- 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.
- 1999 –Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
- 2000 –President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
- 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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