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Events on May 2

• 1536 Anne Boleyn is arrested in Greenwich on charges of repeated adultery, incestuous relationships with her brother George, and plotting to murder her husband, King Henry VIII. She is imprisoned in the Tower of London.
• 1896 On the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Hungary, the “Millennium Underground” is opened in Budapest, the oldest underground railway in continental Europe.
• 1919 In Munich, the second phase of the revolution following the First World War ends with the violent suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic by units of the Reichswehr and Freikorps. As a result, Bavaria becomes the right-wing “showcase” of Germany.
• 1933 After seizing power, the Nazis crush the German trade unions. The German Labour Front (DAF) takes over the trade unions' assets.
• 1936 The musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofjew is premiered after the composer's return to the Soviet Union, at the instigation of Natalija Saz, artistic director of the Moscow Central Children's Theatre, in order to familiarize children with the instruments of the symphony orchestra.
• 1945 General Helmuth Weidling signs the capitulation of Berlin to the Red Army during the Second World War, thereby ending the Battle for Berlin.
• 1974 The Permanent Missions of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic are opened in Bonn and East Berlin. Günter Gaus becomes the first head of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the GDR.
• 1984 In the 1984 DFB Cup semifinal, FC Schalke 04 and FC Bayern Munich draw 6:6 after extra time, with Olaf Thon scoring Schalke's decisive equalizer in the 120th minute. Bayern Munich wins the replay one week later 3:2 and later also becomes the cup winner.
• 1989 Hungary opens its western border and begins tearing down its border fortifications to Austria. This begins the fall of the “Iron Curtain”.
• 1997 Tony Blair is acclaimed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following his election victory on the previous day.
• 1998 On the penultimate matchday of the 1997/98 season, 1. FC Kaiserslautern secures the Bundesliga title, becoming the first promoted club to win it.
• 2011 During Operation Neptune Spear, the terrorist Osama bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by members of a US special forces unit.

Born on May 2

• 1860 Theodor Herzl, Hungarian-Austrian writer, publicist and journalist, founder of modern political Zionism
• 1886 Gottfried Benn, German physician, poet and essayist
• 1912 Axel Springer, German publisher
• 1912 Karl Adam, German rowing coach
• 1950 Bianca Jagger, American human rights activist (AI)
• 1972 Dwayne Johnson, American wrestler and film actor
• 1980 Tim Borowski, German footballer
• 1990 Annemarie Eilfeld, German singer and songwriter
• 1990 Francesco Friedrich, German bobsledder
• 2001 Paula Hartmann, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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