Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 2

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  Aerial view of Old Portsmouth
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  Title page of the first edition of the King James Bible
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  John Knox
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  2008 Chaitén eruption
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  ARA General Belgrano
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  Memorial service in honour of those who died in the Odesa clashes, outside the burnt Trade Unions House on 10 May 2014
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  Mireya Moscoso
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  Brandenburg Gate damaged after the Battle of Berlin

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Blurb	Reason
Teachers' Day in Iran;	refimprove
1611 – Robert Barker, the King's Printer, made the first printing of the King James Version of the Bible.	many CN tags (10)
1757 – Konbaung forces captured the city of Bago, Burma, to end the Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War.	refimprove
1808 – The people of Madrid rebelled against French occupation of the city, triggering the Peninsular War.	needs more footnotes
1829 – Captain Charles Fremantle of the Royal Navy established the Swan River Colony, the first British settlement on the west coast of Australia.	unreferenced section
1866 – Chincha Islands War: Both Spanish and Peruvian forces claimed victory in the Battle of Callao.	many CN tags in one section
1885 – A small force of Cree and Assiniboine defeated a larger Canadian force in the Battle of Cut Knife, the First Nations' most successful battle during the North-West Rebellion.	refimprove section
1946 – The Alcatraz Island United States Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay was taken over by six inmates following their failed escape attempt.	needs more footnotes
1952 – The world's first jet airliner, the [[de Havilland Comet|de Havilland Template:Nowrap]], made its first commercial flight, from London to Johannesburg.	featured on July 27
1969 – The British ocean liner [[Queen Elizabeth 2|Queen Template:Nowrap]] departed on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.	refimprove section
1986 – Henri Toivonen was killed in an accident while leading the Tour de Corse rally, resulting in FISA banning the popular Group B rally cars for the following season.	unreferenced section
2003 – Spurred on by the Indian Union Muslim League, a mob of Indian Muslims killed eight Hindu fishermen in Kerala.	multiple issues
Liu Zong |d|821	source for date is dead
* 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to his death by pneumonia eight days later.	Large chunks uncited

Eligible

• 1194 – King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth (pictured) its first royal charter.
• 1670 – A royal charter granted the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly in the fur trade in Rupert's Land (present-day Canada).
• 1878 – A dust explosion at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths.
• 1945 – World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, the German commander of Berlin, surrendered to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin.
• 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been deliberately sunk by a nuclear submarine in battle.
• 1995 – Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began rocket attacks on the Croatian capital Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring around 200 others.
• 2008 – The Chaitén volcano in Chile began to erupt for the first time since around 1640.
• 2003 – Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people homeless.
• 2011 – Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six in his private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
• 2011 – The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the federal election to establish their first majority government.
• 2014 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrainian unity protesters in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa.
• Born/died: | Blanche of Artois |d|1302| Stjepan Gradić |d|1683| Catherine Labouré |b|1806| Luis Daoíz y Torres |d|1808| Zina Hitchcock |d|1832| Theodor Herzl |b|1860| Jesse William Lazear |b|1866| Ichiyō Higuchi |b|1872| Isabel González |b|1882| Homer Davenport |d|1912| [[B. B. Lal|Template:Nowrap Lal]] |b|1921| Ernest Joyce|d|1940| Dorothea Binz |d|1947| Dwayne Johnson |b|1972| Wee Kim Wee |d|2005|

Notes

• Ayrton Senna/Death of Ayrton Senna appear on May 1, so Henri Toivonen should not appear in the same year

May 2: Flag Day in Poland Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1559 – Presbyterian clergyman John Knox returned from exile to lead the Scottish Reformation.
• 1889 – The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian War, but differences in translation later led to another war.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion attributed to Viet Cong commandos caused the escort carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.
• 1999 – Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
• 2014 – Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people.