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Thursday, May 2, 2013

This is 122nd day of the year and 243 days remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 22 Iyyar 5773
Chinese calendar — the 23rd day of the 3rd month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

May 2 Birthdays

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1729–96, czarina of Russia (1762–96).

Alessandro Scarlatti
composer (1660)

Elijah J. McCoy
inventor (1843)

Theodor Herzl
Zionist (1860)

Manfred von Richthofen
aviator (1892)

Benjamin Spock
pediatrician (1903)

May 2013

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5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

May 2 in History

1885

Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.

1939

Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.

1945

The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.

1955

Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

1969

The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.

1994

Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election.

1997

The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.

2011

U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

2012

A pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.