# 2 Mey

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| Aprile | **Days in Mey** | Juin |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 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 |

The **2t o Mey** is the 122t day o the year (123t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 243 days ti come.

## Events

1808: Madrid uprisin in a pentin bi Francisco Goya
2008: Burma afore an efter Cyclone Nargis
* 1559 - John Knox returns frae exile tae Scotland tae lead the reformation.
* 1568 - Mary, Queen o Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
* 1611 - The Keeng James version o the Bible is published.
* 1808 - The fowk o Madrid rise up against French occupation.
* 1885 - Leopold II o Belgium creates the Congo Free State.
* 1889 - Menelik II o Ethiopie signs a treaty that gies Eritrea tae Italy.
* 1906 - The 1906 Intercalatit Gemmes in Athens end.
* 1933 - Tred unions are banned in Nazi Germany.
* 1945 - Warld War II: The Soviet Union capturs Berlin.
* 1964 - First successful climb o Shishapangma in the Himalayas.
* 1982 - The Unitit Kinrick torpedoes ARA *General Belgrano*, durin the Falklands War.
* 1986 - Chernobyl is evacuatit efter the previous week's nuclear accident.
* 1989 - Hungary opens its wastren border (wi Austrick).
* 1994 - A bus crash in Gdansk kills 32 fowk.
* 1997 - Tony Blair becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1998 - The European Central Bank is creatit.
* 2008 - Cyclone Nargis maks landfaw in Burma.
* 2011 - Osama bin Laden, the suspectit mastermind behind the September 11 attacks an the FBI's maist wanit man is kilt bi the Unitit States Speicial Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
* 2011 - Stephen Harper's Conservative Pairty is re-electit in the Canadian federal election.
* 2014 - A landslide in Afghanistan leaves thoosands o fowk missin.

## Births

Satyajit Ray
Tina Maze
* 1360 - Yongle Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1424)
* 1601 - Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)
* 1631 - John Murray, 1st Marquess o Atholl, Scots ryalist (d. 1703)
* 1660 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian componer (d. 1725)
* 1729 - Catherine the Great, Empress o Roushie (d. 1796)
* 1737 - William Petty, 2nt Yerl o Shelburne, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1805)
* 1779 - John Galt, Scots novelist (d. 1839)
* 1859 - Jerome K. Jerome, Inglis writer an humorist (d. 1927)
* 1860 - Theodor Herzl, Austrick writer an Zionist (d. 1904)
* 1860 - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scots biologist, mathemateecian an clessics scholar (d. 1948)
* 1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Roushie lawer an politeecian (d. 1970)
* 1892 - Manfred von Richthofen, German fechter pilot (d. 1918)
* 1921 - Satyajit Ray, Indie filmmaker (d. 1992)
* 1923 - Patrick Hillery, Preses o Ireland (d. 2008)
* 1929 - Edouard Balladur, umwhile Prime meenister o Fraunce
* 1935 - Faisal II o Iraq (d. 1958)
* 1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Inglis sangster
* 1942 - Jacques Rogge, umwhile Preses o the Internaitional Olympic Committee
* 1945 - Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-born activist
* 1952 - Christine Baranski, American actress
* 1955 - Willie Miller, Scots fitbawer
* 1969 - Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer
* 1972 - Dwayne Johnson (also kent as "The Rock"), American professional wrestler an actor
* 1975 - David Beckham, Inglis fitbawer
* 1978 - Stuart McDonald, Scots politeecian
* 1981 - Dave Mackay, Scots fitbawer
* 1983 - Tina Maze, Slovenie skier
* 1985 - Lily Allen, Inglis sangster
* 1985 - Craig Conway, Scots fitbawer
* 2015 - Princess Charlotte o Cambridge

## Daiths

* 1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and penter (b. 1452)
* 1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German componer (b. 1791)
* 1945 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi politeecian (b. 1900)
* 1957 – Joseph McCarthy, American politeecian (b. 1908)
* 1969 – Franz von Papen, German politeecian (b. 1879)
* 1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, Director o the FBI (b. 1895)
* 1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (b. 1903)
* 1983 – Pridi Banomyong, 7t Prime meenister o Thailand (b. 1900)
* 1998 – Kevin Lloyd, Inglis actor (b. 1949)
* 2011 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, foonder an leader o al-Qaeda (b. 1957)
* 2015 – Ruth Rendell, Inglis writer (b. 1930)
* 2015 – Maya Plisetskaya, Roushie ballet dancer an choreographer (b. 1925)

## Halidays

Banner o Poland
* Flag Day (Poland)
* Naitional Education Day (Indonesie)
* Teacher's Day (Iran, Bhutan)