05-02-2005, 05:11 AM
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May 2nd
1519 ~ Death of Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter.
1660 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian Composer.
1729 ~ Birthday of Empress Catherine II of Russia.
1892 ~ Birthday of Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron" German World War I pilot.
1933 ~ The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster was reported.
1939 ~ Lou Gehrig's streak of 2130 consecutive Major League Baseball games played came to an end. The record would stand for 56 years before Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it.
1952 ~ The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, launched the jet age with its maiden flight from London to Johannesburg.
1955 ~ Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1982 ~ Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
1997 ~ The Labour Party's Tony Blair became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ending 18 years of Conservative Party rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister for 185 years.
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