2 Mey

The 2t o Mey is the 122t day o the year (123t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 243 days ti come.

Events

1808: Madrid uprisin in a pentin bi Francisco Goya

2008: Burma afore an efter Cyclone Nargis

• 1559 - John Knox returns frae exile tae Scotland tae lead the reformation.
• 1568 - Mary, Queen o Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
• 1611 - The Keeng James version o the Bible is published.
• 1808 - The fowk o Madrid rise up against French occupation.
• 1885 - Leopold II o Belgium creates the Congo Free State.
• 1889 - Menelik II o Ethiopie signs a treaty that gies Eritrea tae Italy.
• 1906 - The 1906 Intercalatit Gemmes in Athens end.
• 1933 - Tred unions are banned in Nazi Germany.
• 1945 - Warld War II: The Soviet Union capturs Berlin.
• 1964 - First successful climb o Shishapangma in the Himalayas.
• 1982 - The Unitit Kinrick torpedoes ARA General Belgrano, durin the Falklands War.
• 1986 - Chernobyl is evacuatit efter the previous week's nuclear accident.
• 1989 - Hungary opens its wastren border (wi Austrick).
• 1994 - A bus crash in Gdansk kills 32 fowk.
• 1997 - Tony Blair becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1998 - The European Central Bank is creatit.
• 2008 - Cyclone Nargis maks landfaw in Burma.
• 2011 - Osama bin Laden, the suspectit mastermind behind the September 11 attacks an the FBI's maist wanit man is kilt bi the Unitit States Speicial Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
• 2011 - Stephen Harper's Conservative Pairty is re-electit in the Canadian federal election.
• 2014 - A landslide in Afghanistan leaves thoosands o fowk missin.

Births

Satyajit Ray

Tina Maze

• 1360 - Yongle Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1424)
• 1601 - Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)
• 1631 - John Murray, 1st Marquess o Atholl, Scots ryalist (d. 1703)
• 1660 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian componer (d. 1725)
• 1729 - Catherine the Great, Empress o Roushie (d. 1796)
• 1737 - William Petty, 2nt Yerl o Shelburne, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1805)
• 1779 - John Galt, Scots novelist (d. 1839)
• 1859 - Jerome K. Jerome, Inglis writer an humorist (d. 1927)
• 1860 - Theodor Herzl, Austrick writer an Zionist (d. 1904)
• 1860 - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scots biologist, mathemateecian an clessics scholar (d. 1948)
• 1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Roushie lawer an politeecian (d. 1970)
• 1892 - Manfred von Richthofen, German fechter pilot (d. 1918)
• 1921 - Satyajit Ray, Indie filmmaker (d. 1992)
• 1923 - Patrick Hillery, Preses o Ireland (d. 2008)
• 1929 - Edouard Balladur, umwhile Prime meenister o Fraunce
• 1935 - Faisal II o Iraq (d. 1958)
• 1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Inglis sangster
• 1942 - Jacques Rogge, umwhile Preses o the Internaitional Olympic Committee
• 1945 - Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-born activist
• 1952 - Christine Baranski, American actress
• 1955 - Willie Miller, Scots fitbawer
• 1969 - Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1972 - Dwayne Johnson (also kent as "The Rock"), American professional wrestler an actor
• 1975 - David Beckham, Inglis fitbawer
• 1978 - Stuart McDonald, Scots politeecian
• 1981 - Dave Mackay, Scots fitbawer
• 1983 - Tina Maze, Slovenie skier
• 1985 - Lily Allen, Inglis sangster
• 1985 - Craig Conway, Scots fitbawer
• 2015 - Princess Charlotte o Cambridge

Daiths

• 1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and penter (b. 1452)
• 1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German componer (b. 1791)
• 1945 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi politeecian (b. 1900)
• 1957 – Joseph McCarthy, American politeecian (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Franz von Papen, German politeecian (b. 1879)
• 1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, Director o the FBI (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (b. 1903)
• 1983 – Pridi Banomyong, 7t Prime meenister o Thailand (b. 1900)
• 1998 – Kevin Lloyd, Inglis actor (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, foonder an leader o al-Qaeda (b. 1957)
• 2015 – Ruth Rendell, Inglis writer (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Maya Plisetskaya, Roushie ballet dancer an choreographer (b. 1925)

Halidays

Banner o Poland

• Flag Day (Poland)
• Naitional Education Day (Indonesie)
• Teacher's Day (Iran, Bhutan)