This Day in History
02 May 1230
William de Braose 10th Baron Abergavenny is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great
02 May 1335
Otto the Merry Duke of Austria becomes Duke of Carinthia
02 May 1345
Quaden Maendach in Ghent battles between fullers & weavers
02 May 1526
German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldic League
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Madrid revolts against French rule
During the Peninsular War a popular uprising against the French occupation of Spain begins in Madrid culminating in a fierce battle fought out in the Puerta d...
Hudson’s Bay Company chartered
King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudsons Bay Company made up of the group of French explorers who opened the lucrative Nort...
End of an era at the FBI
After nearly five decades as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) J. Edgar Hoover dies leaving the powerful government agency without the adm...
Loch Ness Monster sighted
The modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier relates an account of a loca...
German troops in Italy surrender to the Allies, while Berlin surrenders to Russia’s Zhukov.
On this day in 1945 approximately 1 million German soldiers lay down their arms as the terms of the German unconditional surrender signed at Caserta on April ...
U.S. ship sunk in Saigon port
An explosion of a charge assumed to have been placed by Viet Cong terrorists sinks the USNS Card at its dock in Saigon. No one was injured and the ship was even...
Joint forces continue attack into Cambodia
American and South Vietnamese forces continue the attack into Cambodia that began on April 29. This limited incursion into Cambodia (as it was des...
Gehrig ends streak
On May 2 1939 New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig benches himself for poor play and ends his streak of consecutive games played at 2130. The Iro...
George W. Bush forms commission on Social Security
On this day in 2001 President George W. Bush appoints a commission to investigate potential changes to the nations Social Security system. The commissi...
John B. Jones becomes major in Texas Rangers
John B. Jones begins his adventurous career as a lawman with an appointment as a major in the Texas Rangers.Born in Fairfield District South Carolina in 1834...
Manuscript of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Conversations at Midnight destroyed in hotel fire
Edna St. Vincent Millays work in progress Conversations at Midnight is burned in a hotel fire on Sanibel Island Florida on this day in 1936. She rec...
Dick Clark survives the Payola scandal
Hes been called Americas Oldest Living Teenager but behind his famously boyish demeanor Clark was a razor-sharp businessmansharp enoug...
Iron Man released
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Sandstorm in Egypt kills 12, topples buildings
On this day in 1997 a sandstorm sweeps across much of Egypt causing widespread damage and killing 12 people. Most of the casualties were victims of the stron...
A grisly crime leads to rubber gloves
Patrick Mahon is arrested on suspicion of murder after showing up at the Waterloo train station in London to claim his bag. He quickly confessed that the bloody...
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