2 May - Wednesday
1729 Catherine II (the Great) empress of Russia (1762-96)
1844 Elijah McCoy black inventor, held over 50 patents including a lubricator for
steam engines ("the Real McCoy")
1892 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [the Red Baron], German WWI ace
1907 Pinky Lee children's show host (Pinky Lee Show)
1908 William Bakewell Los Angeles CA, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show)
1933 Bunk Gardner rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1935 Faisal II King of Iraq (1939-58)/son of Ghasi I
1935 Hussain ibn Talal King of Jordan (1952-99)
1937 Lorenzo Music Brooklyn NY, writer/actor/voice
(Carlton the doorman-Rhoda, Garfield)
1945 Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias Jagger Nicaragua, model/Mick's ex-wife
1945 Bob Henrit English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset)
1945 Goldy McJohn rocker (Steppenwolf)
1948 Larry Gatlin Seminole TX, country singer (Gatlin Brothers-Broken Lady)
1950 Lou Gramm Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-I Want to Know What Love Is)
1961 Doctor Robert [Bruce R Howard] rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1519 Leonardo Da Vinci artist/scientist, dies at 67
1776 France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels
1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
1847 Sabbath famine
1863 Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville VA, wounded by his own men; South defeats North
1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1878 US stops minting 20¢ coin
1885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1890 Territory of Oklahoma created
1916 US President Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act
1926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua
1932 Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
1936 "Peter & the Wolf" premieres in Moscow
1945 German Army in Italy surrenders and
Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
1946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
1953 Feisal II installed as king of Iraq
1953 Hussein I installed as king of Jordan
1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1960 House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
1957 Joseph McCarthy commie hunting senator (R-WI), dies at 47
1960 Caryl Chessman rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
1968 Donald L Hall airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
1972 J Edgar Hoover head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77
1975 Apple records closes down
1980 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by
British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1984 Jack Barry game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
1990 South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1993 Julio Gallo wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82
1994 Dr Kevokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1994 Michael Bolton found to have plagiarized Isley Brothers
"Love is Wonderful Thing"
1997 Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
Lou Gramm
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