Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 2
This is a list of selected May 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Georgy Zhukov
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ARA General Belgrano
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1670 – A Royal Charter granted the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly in the fur trade in Rupert's Land. | refimprove |
| 1808 – The people of Madrid rebelled against French occupation of the city, triggering the Peninsular War. | needs more footnotes |
| 1829 – Captain Charles Fremantle of the Royal Navy established the Swan River Colony, the first British settlement on the west coast of Australia. | needs more footnotes |
| 1953 – Hussein bin Talal was enthroned as king of Jordan. | Tagged with {{POV}} |
| 1999 – Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President of Panama. | Tagged with {{POV}}, refimprove |
Eligible
- 1194 – King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
- 1559 – Scottish clergyman John Knox returned to Scotland from exile to lead the Scottish Reformation.
- 1945 – World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the German troops in Berlin, surrendered the city to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin.
- 1946 – The Alcatraz Island United States Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay was taken over by six inmates following their failed escape attempt.
- 1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departed on her maiden voyage from Southhampton to New York City.
- 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Conqueror launched three torpedoes and sank ARA General Belgrano, the only ship ever to have been sunk by a nuclear-powered submarine.
- 1986 – Henri Toivonen was killed in an accident while leading the Tour de Corse rally, resulting in FISA, the sport governing body for motor racing events, banning the powerful and popular Group B rally cars for the following season.
May 2: Yom HaShoah (Israel and Judaism, 2011); Teachers' Day in Iran; Flag Day in Poland
- 1611 – Robert Barker, the King's Printer, made the first printing of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible (title page pictured).
- 1757 – Konbaung forces captured the city of Pegu, Burma, to end the Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War.
- 1866 – Chincha Islands War: Both Spanish and Peruvian forces claimed victory in the Battle of Callao.
- 1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet 1, made its first commercial flight, from London to Johannesburg.
- 1995 – Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began firing rockets on the Croatian capital of Zagreb, killing 7 and injuring at least 175 others.