Historical Events In May - 02

1968  Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1969  British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York on this day in history.   

1969  Franz JHMM von Papen, German chancellor (1932), dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1970  On May - 02 twenty-six persons were rescued by a VC-8 helicopter from a Dutch Antillean Airlines DC-9 ditched in the Caribbean.   

1972  Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine - 126 die (Kellogg Idaho) on May - 02.   

1972  On this day in history lieutenant General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA   

1972  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on May - 02.   

1972  Hugo Hartung, writer, dies at 69 on May - 02.   

1973  On May - 02 alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61   

1974  On May - 02 former Vice President Spiro Agnew is disbarred   

1975  On this day in history apple records closes down   

1975  US Navy departs Vietnamese waters at end of evacuation on May - 02.   

1975  On May - 02 uSS Midway off-loaded at Utapao, Thailand, over 40 USAF helicopters used in South Vietnam evacuation operations   

1977  "The King &I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances on this day in history.   

1979  14th Academy of Country Music Awards Kenny Rogers &Barbara Mandrell win on May - 02.   

1979  14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers &Barbara Mandrell win on this day in history.   

1980  On May - 02 joseph Doherty &3 other IRA men arrested for murder   

1980  On this day in history pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa   

1980  On May - 02 pope John Paul II begins African tour   

1980  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on May - 02.   

1980  On this day in history clarrie Grimmett, cricket (36 Tests for Australia, 216 wickets), dies   

1981  On this day in history radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes   

1982  On this day in history argentina's only cruiser is sunk by a British submarine with a loss of more than 320 lives   

1982  Falklands War Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men on May - 02.   

1982  On May - 02 helmut Dantine   

1982  On this day in history falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men   

1983  On May - 02 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga CA   

1983  On this day in history marius F Duintjer, architect, dies   

1984  On May - 02 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1984  Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66 on May - 02.   

1985  Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery on this day in history.   

1986  On May - 02 dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II   

1986  In Vancouver BC, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Expo '86; on May - 02.   

1986  Radiation released from the Chernobyl accident reach France, Britain on this day in history.   

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1360  On this day in history birth of yongle, Emperor of China (d. 1424)   

1451  On May - 02 birth of rené II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)   

1458  Leonor of Viseu, queen of Portugal (d. 1525) was born on this day in history.   

1551  William Camden, English historian (Brittania, Annales) was born on May - 02.   

1601  Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern) was born on May - 02.   

1660  Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane) was born on this day in history.   

1695  Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born architect (d. 1766) was born on this day in history.   

1702  On this day in history birth of friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)   

0373  Death of Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298) on May - 02.   

0649  On May - 02 maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies   

0756  Death of Emperor Shōmu, Emperor of Japan (b. 701) on May - 02.   

0907  Death of Boris I of Bulgaria on May - 02.   

1230  On this day in history death of william de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny (b. 1197)   

1250  On May - 02 death of toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered   

1300  On this day in history death of blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre (b. 1248)   

1450  On this day in history death of william de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396)