2 Mey

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

*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

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

## Halidays

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