1902<\/strong> – “A Trip to the Moon,” the first science fiction film was released. It was created by magician George Melies.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – WBAP-AM began broadcasting in north\u00a0Texas.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – In India, Hindu women gained the right to seek elected office.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines landed in Nicaragua to put down a revolt and to protect\u00a0U.S.\u00a0interests. They did not depart until 1933.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – Jack Benny’s first radio show debuted on NBC Radio.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – Lou Gehrig set a new\u00a0major league baseball\u00a0record when he played in his 2,130th game. The streak began on June 1, 1925.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Hostilities broke out between British forces in Iraq and that country\u2019s pro-German faction.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – The Federal Communications Commission agreed to let regular scheduling of TV broadcasts by commercial TV stations begin on July 1, 1941. This was the start of network television.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – Russians took Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting. The Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – Prisoners revolted at\u00a0California’s Alcatraz prison.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals set a new\u00a0major league\u00a0record when he hit 5 home runs against the New York Giants.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – Caryl Chessman was executed. He was a convicted sex offender and had become the best selling author while on death row.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – The “Early Bird” satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) made its maiden voyage.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – Student anti-war protesters at\u00a0Ohio’s Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard took control of the campus.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – Former\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – The filming of “Jaws” began in Martha’s Vineyard,\u00a0MA.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – The British submarine\u00a0HMS Conqueror<\/i>\u00a0sank Argentina’s only cruiser, the\u00a0General Belgrano<\/i>\u00a0during the Falkland Islands War. More than 350 people died.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – At Washington’s National Gallery of Art, an exhibit of 80 paintings from the collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes opened.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Authorities said that they had recovered the remains of David Koresh from the Branch Davidian compound near Waco,\u00a0TX.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Nelson Mandela claimed victory after South Africa’s first democratic elections.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In Panama, Mireya Moscoso de Gruber, of the Armulfista Party, was elected president.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – It was reported that Phyllis Diller had retired from touring.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Yelwa massacre\u00a0concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cyclone Nargis\u00a0makes landfall in\u00a0Burma\u00a0killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chait\u00e9n Volcano\u00a0begins erupting in\u00a0Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the\u00a0September 11 attacks\u00a0and the\u00a0FBI’s most wanted man, is\u00a0killed\u00a0by the\u00a0United States special forces\u00a0in\u00a0Abbottabad, Pakistan.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong> \u2013 An\u00a0E. coli outbreak\u00a0strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the\u00a0bacteria\u00a0outbreak.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong> \u2013 The\u00a041st Canadian federal election\u00a0is held, in which the governing\u00a0Conservative Party, led by\u00a0incumbent\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Stephen Harper, increases their number of seats from a\u00a0minority\u00a0to a\u00a0majority.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0pastel\u00a0version of\u00a0The Scream, by Norwegian painter\u00a0Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Two mudslides\u00a0in\u00a0Badakhshan,\u00a0Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Basque separatist\u00a0terrorist band\u00a0ETA\u00a0announces its dissolution and ceasing of all activities.<\/p>\n History of 2 May 1902 – “A Trip to the Moon,” the first science fiction film was released. 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