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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John Knox
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1194 – King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. | unreferenced section |
| 1670 – A Royal Charter granted the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly in the fur trade in Rupert's Land. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1757 – Konbaung forces captured the city of Bago, Burma, to end the Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War. | refimprove section |
| 1808 – The people of Madrid rebelled against French occupation of the city, triggering the Peninsular War. | needs copyediting |
| 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 |
| 1866 – Chincha Islands War: Both Spanish and Peruvian forces claimed victory in the Battle of Callao. | unreferenced section |
| 1946 – The Alcatraz Island United States Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay was taken over by six inmates following their failed escape attempt. | needs more footnotes |
| 1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet 1, made its first commercial flight, from London to Johannesburg. | featured on July 27 |
| 1953 – Hussein bin Talal was enthroned as king of Jordan. | unreferenced section |
| 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Conqueror launched three torpedoes and sank ARA General Belgrano, the only ship ever to have been deliberately sunk by a nuclear submarine in battle. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1986 – Henri Toivonen was killed in an accident while leading the Tour de Corse rally, resulting in FISA banning the popular Group B rally cars for the following season.
- 1995 – Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began firing rockets on the Croatian capital of Zagreb, killing 7 and injuring at least 175 others.
- 2011 – The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the Canadian federal election to establish their first majority government.
- 2011 – Osama bin Laden was shot and killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 in a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
May 2: Maundy Thursday (Eastern Christianity, 2013); 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.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to his death by pneumonia eight days later.
- 1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departed on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
- 1999 – Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
- 2003 – Spurred on by the Indian Union Muslim League, a mob of Indian Muslims killed eight Hindu Arayan fishermen in Kerala.