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May 2, 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was arrested
and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
May 2, 1611 – The King James Bible was published for the
first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
May 2, 1670 – King Charles II of England granted a permanent
charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
May 2, 1692 – In connection with the Salem witchcraft
trials, John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examined Sarah Morey, Lyndia Dustin,
Susannah Martin and Dorcas Hoar.
May 2, 1740 - Elias Boudinot was born in Philadelphia, Pa.
He served as the president of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783 and
signed the Treat of Paris.
May 2, 1776 - France and Spain agreed to donate arms to
American rebels fighting the British.
May 2, 1777 - General David Wooster died from an injury from
a musket ball he had received.
May 2, 1792 - The First Militia Act was passed by Congress.
The act provided for the President of the United States to take command of the
state militias in times of imminent invasion or insurrection.
May 2, 1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles
Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declared the Swan River Colony in Australia.
May 2, 1859 – Playwright and author Jerome K. Jerome was
born in Walsall, England. He's best known for his play “Three Men in a Boat” and his book “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow” (1886).
May 2, 1861 – Pinckney D. Bowles, while stationed in
Yorktown, Va., was re-elected as a captain in the 4th Alabama Infantry
Regiment.
May 2, 1861 – While stationed in Washington, D.C., George
Washington Custis Lee, the son of Robert E. Lee, resigned his U.S. Army
commission, about two weeks after his father resigned from the U.S. Army, and
became a captain in the Confederate Army, assisting in the construction of
fortifications for Richmond, Virginia.
May 2, 1862 - Confederate forces evacuated Yorktown.
May 2, 1863 - Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson ended his raid
when he and his men rode into Union occupied Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The raid
had begun on April 17.
May 2, 1863 - Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
administered a devastating defeat to the Army of the Potomac under General
Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Va. Jackson was also
accidentally shot by his own men while returning to camp after reconnoitering
during the battle and later died from pneumonia eight days later.
May 2, 1863 - Sixteen-year-old Emma Sansom became a
Confederate heroine when she helped Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest cross Black
Creek near Gadsden, Ala. as he pursued Union forces led by Col. A.D. Streight.
May 2, 1865 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson offered a $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
May 2, 1876 - Ross Barnes hit the first home run in the National League.
May 2, 1885 – Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time, offering housekeeping tips, parenting advice, product reviews and fiction.
May 2, 1887 – Pro Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Eddie Collins was born in Millerton, N.Y. He went on to play for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1939.
May 2, 1890 - The Oklahoma Territory was organized.
May 2, 1903 – Dr. Benjamin Spock was born in New Haven, Conn. He wrote “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” (1946).
May 2, 1905 - Author Annie Vaughan Weaver was born in Selma, Ala.
May 2, 1920 - The first game of the National Negro Baseball
League was played in Indianapolis.
May 2, 1923 - Walter Johnson pitched his 100th shutout.
May 2, 1925 - Alabama author Nancy Huddleston Packer was
born in Washington, D.C.
May 2, 1930 - The first-ever night game in professional
baseball took place on this day when a Des Moines, Iowa team hosted Wichita for
a Western League game.
May 2, 1933 - Although accounts of an aquatic beast living
in Scotland’s Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch
Ness Monster was born when a sighting made local news on this day. The
newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to
have seen “an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.” The story
of the “monster” (a moniker chosen by the Courier editor) became a media
phenomenon, with London newspapers sending correspondents to Scotland and a
circus offering a 20,000 pound sterling reward for capture of the beast.
May 22, 1933 - Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.
May 2, 1936 – Sam G. Lowrey became Burnt Corn, Alabama’s
postmaster, receiving the job after the post office there was reestablished
after being discontinued for 10 years.
May 2, 1939 - Lou Gehrig set a new Major League Baseball
record when he played in his 2,130th game. The streak began on June 1, 1925.
May 2, 1941 – Major League Baseball pitcher Clay Carroll was
born in Clanton, Ala. He went on to play for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, the
Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago White Sox, the St. Louis Cardinals and the
Pittsburgh Pirates.
May 2, 1952 – Alfred Robert “Son” Boulware Jr., believed by
many to be the inspiration for Harper Lee’s Boo Radley, passed away from
tuberculosis at the age of 41. He is buried in Monroeville, Alabama’s Pineville
Cemetery.
May 2, 1954 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals set a
new major league record when he hit five home runs against the New York Giants.
May 2, 1955 – Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for
Drama for “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
May 2, 1958 - The New York Yankees threatened to broadcast
their games nationwide if the National League went ahead with plans to
broadcast their games into New York.
May 2, 1974 - The filming of "Jaws" began in
Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
May 2, 1976 – Empire, Ala. native Daniel Robert “Dan”
Bankhead, the first black pitcher in Major League Baseball, passed away from
cancer at the age of 55 at the Veterans Administration hospital in Houston,
Texas.
May 2, 1981 – The Evergreen Junior Baseball League held
player tryouts at Evergreen Recreational Park in Evergreen, Ala.
May 2, 1987 – First ever Castleberry Strawberry Festival
held in downtown Castleberry, Ala.
May 2, 1988 - The Baltimore Orioles signed a 15-year lease
to remain in Baltimore and get a new park.
May 2, 1988 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds was suspended
for 30 games for pushing an umpire.
May 2, 1993 - Authorities said that they had recovered the
remains of David Koresh from the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
May 2, 2000 – President Bill Clinton announced that accurate
GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
May 2, 2002 - Mike Cameron of the Seattle Mariners hit four
home runs against the Chicago White Sox.
May 2, 2003 - The Harper Lee Award for Alabama's
Distinguished Writer was given to Alabama author Rodney Jones at the Alabama
Writers Symposium in Monroeville, Ala.
May 2, 2007 - Evergreen Medical Center held its annual
Health Fair in the parking lot of the hospital in Evergreen, Ala.
May 2, 2008 - The Harper Lee Award for Alabama's
Distinguished Writer was given to Alabama author Rebecca Gilman at the Alabama
Writers Symposium in Monroeville, Ala.
May 2, 2009 - The Dallas Cowboys practice bubble collapsed
during a storm during a practice. At the time, 27 players were working out.
Almost all were drafted last weekend or signed as undrafted rookies. Twelve
people were injured.
May 2, 2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind
the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man was killed by the United
States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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