Thursday 2 May is the 123rd day of the Gregorian calendar. There are 243 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Saint Athanasius
May Proverb
Cool May and warm house, the housewife is happy and bold
It happened today
1918 – General Motors acquires Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1920 – Start of the Red Days of Viareggio
1933 – The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster is reported.
1939 – Lou Gehrig sets Major League Baseball record of 2,130 consecutive games played. The record would be broken 56 years later by Cal Ripken, Jr.
1940 – The Helsinki Olympic Games are officially cancelled.
[1945 – World War II: Fall of Berlin – the Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers raise the red flag over the Reichstag. The Americans enter Cortina d’Ampezzo.
1953 – Husayn ibn Ṭalāl is crowned king of Jordan.
1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while docked in Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship.
1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 sets off on her maiden voyage to New York.
1986 – Opening of the 1986 World’s Fair in Vancouver, Canada.
1997 – United Kingdom: Labor Party leader Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after 18 years of Conservative government. At 43, he is the youngest prime minister in 185 years.
1998 – The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels with the aim of defining the monetary policies of the European Union.
1999 – Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected president of Panama.
2008 – Cyclone Nargis causes around 130,000 victims and millions of homeless people in Burma.
2011 – During an assault by US Navy SEALs near the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, the Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda and instigator of the September 11, 2001 attacks, was killed.
2013 – The new 5 euro banknote is put into circulation in Europe.
2014 – The 4th chapter of The Sims video game series is released in North America by Electronic Arts and Maxis, which will then be released 2 days later in Europe and Australia.
2016 – Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester City wins their first Premier League.
2021 – Antonio Conte’s Inter wins the scudetto after 11 years, the 19th in its history
Born
David Beckham – former English footballer (2 May 1975)
Alessandro D’Avenia – Italian writer, teacher and screenwriter (2 May 1977)
Alessandro Diamanti – Italian footballer (2 May 1983)
Francesco Facchinetti – Italian singer, TV presenter (2 May 1980)
Umberto Galimberti – Italian philosopher (2 May 1942)
