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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2" title="May 2">May 2</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1194" title="1194">1194</a> – King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England" title="Richard I of England"><span class="nowrap">Richard I</span> of England</a> gave the city of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth" title="Portsmouth">Portsmouth</a></b> its first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_charter" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1559" title="1559">1559</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterian</a> clergyman <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox" title="John Knox">John Knox</a></b> returned from exile to lead the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Reformation" title="Scottish Reformation">Scottish Reformation</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1670" title="1670">1670</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_charter" title="Royal charter">royal charter</a> granted the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a></b> a monopoly in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_trade" title="Fur trade">fur trade</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert%27s_Land" title="Rupert's Land">Rupert's Land</a> (present-day Canada).</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999" title="1999">1999</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireya_Moscoso" title="Mireya Moscoso">Mireya Moscoso</a></b> became the first woman to be elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Panama#Presidents_of_Panama_(1904%E2%80%93present)" title="List of heads of state of Panama">President of Panama</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Manou" title="Cyclone Manou">Cyclone Manou</a></b> formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people homeless.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" title="2011">2011</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a> was <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden" title="Killing of Osama bin Laden">shot and killed</a></b> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL_Team_Six" title="SEAL Team Six">U.S. Navy SEAL <span class="nowrap">Team 6</span></a> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_compound_in_Abbottabad" title="Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad">private residential compound</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbottabad" title="Abbottabad">Abbottabad</a>, Pakistan.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_of_Artois" title="Blanche of Artois">Blanche of Artois</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1302); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiy%C5%8D_Higuchi" title="Ichiyō Higuchi">Ichiyō Higuchi</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1872); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Johnson" title="Dwayne Johnson">Dwayne Johnson</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1972)</p>