May 2: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

May 2nd marks the 122nd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 123rd in case of leap years). There are 243 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include King Faisal (1935), David Beckham (1975) and Dwayne Johnson (1972). Holidays and observances around the world include: World Tuna Day.
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Holidays

Saint Zoe
Saint Mafalda
Saint Waldebert, Walbert or Gaubert
Saint Germanus
Saints Exuperius and Zoe
Saint Boris
Saint Athanasius
Indonesia - Indonesia National Education Day
Iran - Teacher's Day
Slovenia - second day of Labour Day
Madrid Region - Day of the Region.
Poland - Flag Day, an official holiday to honour the Flag of Poland
saint tsar Boris
Bahá'f Faith: Last day of the Festival of Ridván
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Events

2019 2019 North Indian Ocean Cyclone Season: Evacuation of around 800,000 people is in progress as Extremely Serious Cyclonic Storm Fani moves toward Odisha (formerly Orissa). It is expected to landfall Friday with winds of more than 200 km/h (127mph).
2018 Basque conflict: The Basque separatist group ETA, which waged an insurgency versus Spain between 1959-2011, announces its total dissolution.
2017 Syrian Civil War: According the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights), at least 38 people were killed in the attack by ISIL militants on a camp for displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees located near Al-Shaddadah Governorate, Al-Hasakah Governorate.
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014-2017: At least 14 people, including Shiite pilgrims were killed in three bombings in Baghdad. More than 30 others were injured.
2015 2015 West African offensive: On April 30, 2015, the Nigerian Armed Forces announced that they had rescued 234 more women and girls from Boko Haram's control of Sambisa Forest.
2014 Syrian Civil War (Siege of Homs).:: The city of Homs in Syria has reached a 24-hour ceasefire agreement, allowing rebels to leave their last stronghold in the city.
2013 The Chad government announced that it stopped a coup attempt, which "had been in preparation since several months."
2012 New York City auction sells a pastel version of "The Scream" by Edvard Munch. This is a world record for an art auction.
2011 US Special Forces kill Osama bin Laden, the FBI's most wanted man and suspected mastermind behind September 11 attacks.
2010 The International Monetary Fund and the eurozone have agreed to a EUR110 billion bailout package in Greece. This package includes severe austerity measures for Greece.
2009 Holiday World, Indiana, USA: The Pilgrim’s Plunge water slide opens. It is the largest water ride drop in the world at 131 feet and has a 45-degree slope.
2008 Marvel Entertainment has released Iron Man in theaters across the USA. The film was produced by Marvel at a cost approximately US$150m plus US$75m in marketing.
2007 Taliban gunmen kill Abdul Sabur Farid (a former Prime Minister and member of the House of Elders) in Afghanistan.
2006 The new cabinet of Nepal has been unveiled.
2005 Pontiac Grand Am's car is no longer produced at the Lansing Car Assembly plant, which dates back to 100 years.
2004 Yelwa massacre by Christians in Nigeria of more than 630 nomad Muslims
2003 The Monkeyman supervillain hoax starts in Tunbridge Wells (Kent, UK).
2002 Eight Hindus were killed in a massacre at Marad near Palakkad, Kerala.
2000 President Bill Clinton announced that GPS access to accurate data will no longer be restricted only to the United States military.
1999 Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic are murdered by the serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz in a parsonage in Weimar, Texas (his fourth and fifth victims in his fourth slaying incident).
1998 The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
1997 Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
1995 Hamlet opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 121 performances
1994 Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros Love is Wonderful Thing
1993 Tango Passion closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1992 High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club opens at H Hayes NYC 14 performances
1990 Some Americans Abroad opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 performances
1988 Baltimore Orioles sign a 15-year lease to remain in Baltimore and get a new park.
1987 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4.
1986 Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II.
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1984 Sunday in the Park with George opens at Booth NYC for 604 performances
1983 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1981 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
1980 Joseph Doherty and three other Irish Republican Army men arrested for murder.
1979 Quadrophenia premieres in London
1978 NBA championship: Portland Trail Blazers win in four games.
1977 King & I opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances
1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic.
1975 Apple Records closes down.
1974 Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
1973 Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries sells a US 1868 3-cent rose George Washington postage stamp with "B" grill embossing for US$23,000 The stamp is one of four known; this is the first time one is sold at public auction.
1972 Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine - 126 die (Kellogg, Idaho, USA).
1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open.
1970 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby
1969 The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
1968 22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2.
1966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
1965 New Faces of 1965 opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances
1964 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00.
1962 OAS strikes in Algeria
1960 Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
1959 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2.
1957 Vincent Gigante fails to assassinate mafioso Frank Costello in Manhattan.
1956 US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus.
1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for
1954 Stan Musial hits five homeruns in a doubleheader.
1953 79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02.
1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
1950 Carlo Terrons Giuditta, premieres in Milan
1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman
1947 The movie ''Miracle on 34th Street'', a Christmastime classic, is first shown in theaters.
1946 Prisoners begin revolt at Alcatraz prison in California.
1945 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen
1944 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM / MET / FOX) 1st broadcast
1943 German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia.
1942 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4.
1941 FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1
1939 Vyacheslav Molotov succeeds Maxim Litvinov as Soviet Foreign Commissar.
1938 Ella Fitzgerald records A-Tisket, A-Tasket
1936 Peter & Wolf premieres in Moscow
1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
1932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
1930 Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 in baseball to open first ballpark with permanently installed lights.
1928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield
1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua
1924 Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR.
1923 Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats New York Yankees 3-0.
1922 WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Fort Worth Texas.
1920 The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1918 General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1916 US President Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act.
1915 Old Fordham Road in the Bronx renamed Landing Road.
1909 Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in first inning against Chicago Cubs.
1907 Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian Government.
1906 32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8.
1905 French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work.
1903 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09.
1902 A Trip To The Moon, the 1st science fiction film released
1900 George Bernard Shaws "You Never Can Tell" premieres in London.
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