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.
- 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.
- 1611 –King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1876 –The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
- 1879 –The Spanish Socialist Worker‘s Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub (city of Madrid) by the historical Spanish workers’leader Pablo Iglesias.
- 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.
- 1952 –The world’s first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
- 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.
- 1969 –The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
- 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.
- 2004 –Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
- 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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