May 2: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
2. 1670 - King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
3. 1920 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
4. 1945 - World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.
5. 1946 - The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place; two guards and three inmates are killed.
6. 1955 - Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
7. 1964 - First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
8. 1998 - The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
9. 2000 - President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
10. 2012 - A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
11. Famous Birthdays: William Camden English historian), Catherine the Great (Russian wife of Peter III of Russia), Abraham Pineo Gesner (Canadian physician and geologist), Elijah McCoy (Canadian-American engineer), E. E. Smith (American author)

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