TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MAY 2
1536 King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery & incest
1670 King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company
1776 France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.
1833 Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
1865 President Andrew Johnson offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of the Confederate President
1885 Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.
1890 The Territory of Oklahoma is created.
1916 US President Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act
1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
1945 Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting.
1946 Prisoners revolt at California’s Alcatraz prison.
1953 Feisal II installed as king of Iraq
1953 Hussein I installed as king of Jordan
1956 US Methodist church disallows race separation
1969 The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.
1970 Student anti-war protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus.
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1989 The Iron Curtain begins to crumble as Hungary dismantles its border fence
1994 Dr Kevokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1997 Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
2011 Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
