| Date | Text | |||
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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 May 1925 | Roscoe Lee Browne: Woodbury, New Jersey -- Actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap) | |||
| 02 May 1925 | Svatopluk Havelka: Composer | |||
| 02 May 1925 | John Neville, English-Canadian actor (d. 2011) | |||
| 02 May 1925 | WW2 | Douglas MacArthur returned to the United States from the Philippine Islands to take command of the IV Corps Area based at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia. | ||
| 02 May 1925 |
death Johann Palisa Died 2 May 1925 at age 76 (born 6 Dec 1848). Austrian astronomer who was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, 122 in all, beginning with Asteroid 136 Austria (on 18 Mar 1874, using a 6" refractor) to Asteroid 1073 Gellivara in 1923 - all by visual observation, without the aid of photography. In 1883, he joined the expedition of the French academy to observe the total solar eclipse on May 6 of that year. During the eclipse, he searched for the putative planet Vulcan, which was supposed to circle the sun within the orbit of Mercury. In addition to observing the eclipse, Palisa collected insects for the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He also prepared two catalogs containing the positions of almost 4,700 stars. He remains the most successful visual discoverer in the history of minor planet research. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 May 1950 | Carlo Terrons "Giuditta, " premieres in Milan | |||
| 02 May 1950 | Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration | |||
| 02 May 1950 | Dutch Prime Minister Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR | |||
| 02 May 1950 | Richard Ground English lawyer and judge (d. 2014) | |||
| 02 May 1950 | Lou Gramm, American singer-songwriter (Foreigner and Shadow King) | |||
| 02 May 1950 | Duncan Gay, Australian businessman and politician | |||
| 02 May 1950 | Simon Gaskell, English chemist and academic | |||
| 02 May 1950 | birth Lou Gramm, vocals, Foreigner, (1985 UK & US No.1 single 'I Want To Know What Love Is'). | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 May 1975 | Mark Johnson: Dayton, Ohio -- Baseball pitcher (1996 Olympics - Bronze Medalist) | |||
| 02 May 1975 | Murray William Burdan: Wellington, New Zealand -- Swimmer (1996 Olympics) | |||
| 02 May 1975 | Apple records closes down | |||
| 02 May 1975 | Joe Wilkinson, English actor and screenwriter | |||
| 02 May 1975 | Eva Santolaria, Spanish actress | |||
| 02 May 1975 | David Beckham, English footballer, coach, and model | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 May 2000 | President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 May 2005 | Wee Kim Wee, Singaporean journalist and politician, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915) | |||
| 02 May 2005 | Eric Clapton joined former Cream members drummer Ginger Baker and bass player Jack Bruce for the first of four nights at London's Royal Albert Hall 36 years after they had split up. Tickets were changing hands for more than £500 on eBay and fans had flown over from the USA to witness the reunion, which Clapton aged 60, is said to have agreed to because of the failing health of the other former members of the band. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 May 2010 | Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (b. 1943) | |||
| 02 May 2010 | Moshe Hirsch, Israeli rabbi (b. 1923) | |||
| 02 May 2010 | Kama Chinen, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1895) | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 May 2015 | Ruth Rendell, English author (b. 1930) | |||
| 02 May 2015 | Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (b. 1925) | |||
| 02 May 2015 | Brian Moore, American police officer (b. 1989) | |||
| 02 May 2015 | Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist (b. 1927) | |||
| 02 May 2015 | Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1945) | |||
| 02 May 2015 | Stuart Archer, English colonel and architect (b. 1915) | |||
| 02 May 2015 | Princess Charlotte of Cambridge | |||
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