Once Upon A Time – May 2 – 2016 – Leicester City Wins English Premier League Title

1945 More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria

1945 World War II: Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin forcing German commander of the city general Helmuth Weidling to surrender

1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for “Death of a Salesman”

1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

2008 Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless

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

Historical Events Today Events in 2023
Today in Film & TV
2008 First film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe released: “Iron Man” directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark

Today in Music
1936 Sergei Prokofiev’s musical “Peter and the Wolf” premieres in Moscow

Today in Sport
2016 Leicester City win the English Premier League title after starting the season at 5,000-1 odds

MORE FACTS…
2018 New research show plants “talk” to each other through their roots and the soil in study on corn published in journal “Plos One”

1998 Battle of Hogwarts: fictional battle that ended the Second Wizarding War with the death of Lord Voldemort at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Famous Weddings
1652 Daughter of the Prince of Orange, Albertine Agnes marries William Frederick Prince of Nassau-Dietz

1816 Léopold (Léopold I)of Saxe-Coburg, 1st King of Belgium following independence from the Netherlands marries British Princess Charlotte Augusta

1906 US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes marries Maude Busch

S.L. Benfica has failed to win a European Championship since 1962, when former coach Béla Guttmann placed a 100 year curse on the club. Is the curse working? May 2, 1962


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