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May 2: World Tuna Day: -- Observed
throughout the coastal zone of the planet, this date was an
achievement of fishing communities, scientists, and
environmentalists who came together to protect tuna schools around
the world and help create a sustainable fishing model. Why is
there a World Tuna Day? Well, because tuna is one of the most
vigorous and important fish in the seas. It is certainly among the
most fascinating when it comes to size, strength, agility, and
speed. In addition, it is one of the most important animals for
the human economy and nutrition. Tuna species represent 20% of the
value of all marine fisheries and more than 8% of all seafood
traded globally. Tunas are magnificent wild animals and have been
known to mankind for thousands of years. One of the oldest records
of the species was made by Aristotle in his work on the
classification of animals. These fish can reach up to eight feet
in length and weigh over 500 pounds, but don't think we're talking
about a slow animal. This fish's powerful body allows it to reach
a speed of up to 43 miles per hour! Size, strength, and speed are
important characteristics of tuna as they are constantly
migrating, crossing oceans, and going from one continent to
another. That's why they are in almost every ocean in the world.
Tuna can live in several seas on the planet as it is an
endothermic fish. It can increase its body temperature when facing
the icy waters on its migration routes. This evolutionary
adaptation is what gives tuna meat its characteristic reddish-pink
color and powerful nutritional properties. A large, tasty, and
nutritious fish that can be found almost all over the world, it is
no accident that tuna has become so important in the diet of
millions of people. It is one of the major animals exploited by
the fishing industry. Currently, at least 96 countries exploit
schools of tuna in the oceans. Throughout history, however, tuna
fishing was limited for technical reasons. It was with the advent
of engines that fishing boats managed to increase the area of
??fishing nets they cast over the seas. This has led to an
exponential growth in the capture of these fish. With the growth
of the world population, tuna fishing has become more intense,
increasing the risk of predatory overexploitation of these
animals. Overfishing not only threatens tuna but also other marine
animals. The indiscriminate use of fishing nets also kills
turtles, dolphins, and swordfish. In 2016, the United Nations
General Assembly established May 2 as World Tuna Day. The aim was
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May 2: National Brothers And Sisters Day:
-- Dedicated to the people who (we hope) made your childhood
memorable - your siblings. They've been there for you during the
good times. And they haven't left your side through the bad (even
if they created it by getting you in trouble). Of course, there
were probably times where you couldn't stand the sight of each
other. What siblings don't get into fights? Still, today is the
day to reflect on the best times. We all agree about the
importance of Mother's Day and Father's Day. But brothers and
sisters know you like no one else ever will. Life is short, and
it's easy to get caught up on the little things that may come your
way. National Brothers and Sisters Day was created after an
unknown woman lost her brother and realized how she never let him
know how much he meant to her. Two years after his death, she
decided to create a holiday that was all about siblings
connecting, reconnecting, and appreciating each other so that
others didn't miss out on what she did: a close relationship with
her brother. And thus, National Brothers and Sisters Day was born.
It is meant to be a holiday that is strictly celebrated from the
heart where brothers and sisters really take the time to value and
cherish each other and the memories they share and to (of course)
create new ones. Not to be confused with National Siblings Day,
this holiday was created to specifically recognize the bond that
only brothers and sisters can have. So whether you and your
brother or sister haven't spoken in days, months or years, it's a
time to reflect and strengthen bonds. Call your sibling and talk
for 10 minutes or go see a movie together. There is no right or
wrong way to celebrate this holiday, all you have to do appreciate
and continue to grow with your brother or sister. Brothers and
sisters for a lot of people are each other's first best friends,
first sparring partners, and one of their most valued protectors.
Each year the holiday is celebrated at the beginning of May - the
middle of spring, a time for blooming. It's the perfect time of
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May 2: Baby Day: -- They are adorable,
soft and full of curiosity! A baby's smile can light up a room,
melt a heart, and give a whole new meaning to life. Babies are
amazing; they instill a sense of hope and joy in you, inspiring
you to improve yourself as a person. Everyone has babies around
them: yours, a family member's, a friend's, or even a neighbor's,
and this is a day to learn how to care better for them. After all,
they need all the love, care, and attention they can get. Baby Day
was developed to highlight the wonders and delights that babies
experience as they grow up. The road to adulthood isn't always
smooth, and that's why these little ones have their parents by
their side to help them out. As much as children can help us learn
more about ourselves and the world, we can also learn from them.
Children come in all shapes and sizes and represent a fresh start
and a wonderful innocence. Even if they are born ignorant, they
are also born without preconceptions, cynicisms, and prejudices.
It would be wonderful if we could all be so carefree. Becoming a
parent, whether you have one child or several, is not for the
faint of heart. Expect to have your assumptions about the world
and your place in it tested daily by the never-ending barrage of
"why's" that will come your way. Those who become
parents often develop a sense of selflessness, as their entire
world revolves around their small ones. To further the education
of the next generation, Baby Day was created. Your older children
may one day be forced to babysit for younger siblings, and it's
important to teach them how to do so. A great opportunity to teach
older children about the challenges of caring for a helpless,
frail newborn is presented on this occasion. To help them better
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May 2: National Life Insurance Day: --
Marks the anniversary of the first day that life insurance became
available in the United States. This day celebrates life insurance
and reminds us of the benefits of having it. It is important to
have life insurance as it can ensure we don't fall into debt,
pre-fund a child's college education, provide surviving family
members with the chance to move on with a clean slate, and keep a
business afloat for a while in the event of the death of a family
member who owned a business. Life insurance makes it possible to
establish an emergency fund and seek out high-quality investment
opportunities to build wealth while making sure your family is
taken care of. Life insurance is a security for the future. The
earliest-known life insurance policy was taken out at Royal
Exchange, London, on June 18, 1583. A Richard Martin insured a
William Gybbons, paying 13 merchants 30 pounds for 400 pounds if
the insured died within a year. In modern times, the first company
to offer insurance was the Amicable Society for a Perpetual
Assurance Office, which was founded in London in 1706 by William
Talbot and Sir Thomas Allen. Each member made an annual payment
per share on one to three sales with consideration to the age of
the members being 12 to 55. At the end of the year, a portion of
the 'amicable contribution' was divided among the wives and
children of deceased members, in proportion to the number of
shares the heirs owned. During the late 1760s, the sale of life
insurance in the United States began. On May 2, 1759, the charter
was recorded for the Corporation For Relief of Poor and Distressed
Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers, which was America's
first life insurance company and was created by the Presbyterian
Synods in Philadelphia and New York City. Known as the
Presbyterian Ministers Fund for Life Insurance, Presbyterians
formed this non-profit mutual fund for their ministers. Between
1787 and 1837, over two dozen life insurance companies were
started, but fewer than half a dozen survived. May 2 was
designated each year for the celebration of National Life
Insurance Day. In 2014, Liran Hirschkorn, who was an Independent
Insurance Agent at Best Life Quote, submitted National Life
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May 2: Polish National Flag Day: -- Poles
living at home and abroad welcome the month of May with great joy,
as they celebrate May 1 as International Workers' Day, May 3 as
Constitution Day, and May 2 as Polish National Flag Day. Although
May 2 is not a public holiday, it is treated as such by the Poles.
After withstanding centuries of internal and external storms,
Poland has emerged as one of the most important countries in the
European Union. The auspicious day of May 2 celebrates the
republic's past struggles and strengthens the Poles for the
challenges they face today. May is a month for celebration for the
people of Poland, with three consecutive holidays from May 1 to
May 3. Sandwiched between the two public holidays is Polish
National Flag Day. May 2 is a special day in the history of
Poland. It is on May 2, 1945, that the First Polish Army conquered
the capital of Nazi Germany and placed the colors of Poland on the
Berlin Victory Column. The day is also observed to immortalize the
resistance against the communist regime of Poland that abolished
the unfurling of the Polish flag after May 1 - effectively erasing
the proof of Poland's sovereignty on its Constitution Day. The
Poles celebrate May 2 with patriotic rigor. Various demonstrations
across the country are organized and people wave a white and red
flag across town. Since the 2010s, the day has largely transformed
into a fashionable holiday, with the highest government official
to the lowest posted clerk of the entire country wearing the
national cockade. National Polish Flag Day was declared on
February 20, 2004, after years of legislation and bureaucratic
dealings that included the replacement of the Polish National Flag
with the Day of the White Eagle. Poland's national flag features
red and white colors, which are inspired by the Polish coat of
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May 2, 1536: The English Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): Anne Boleyn, Queen Of
England: - The Arrest And Imprisonment Of Anne Boleyn, Queen Of
England: -- Anne Boleyn, Queen Of England, is arrested and
imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
Anne Boleyn (1501 - 19 May 1536) was Queen Of England from 1533 to
1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII. Henry's marriage to
her, and her subsequent execution by beheading, made her a key
figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start
of the English Reformation. Anne was the daughter of Thomas
Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth
Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as
a maid of honour to Queen Claude of France. Anne returned to
England in early 1522, to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th
Earl of Ormond; the marriage plans were broken off, and instead
she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's
wife, Catherine Of Aragon. Early in 1523 Anne was secretly
betrothed to Henry Percy, son of the 5th Earl of Northumberland,
but the betrothal was broken off when Percy's father refused to
support their engagement. Cardinal Wolsey refused the match in
January 1524 and Anne was sent back home to Hever Castle. In
February or March 1526, Henry VIII began his pursuit of Anne. She
resisted his attempts to seduce her, refusing to become his
mistress, which her sister Mary had been. It soon became the one
absorbing object of Henry's desires to annul his marriage to
Catherine Of Aragon so he would be free to marry Anne. When it
became clear that Pope Clement VII would not annul the marriage,
the breaking of the Catholic Church's power in England began. In
1532, Henry granted Anne the Marquessate of Pembroke. Henry and
Anne formally married on 25 January 1533, after a secret wedding
on 14 November 1532. On 23 May 1533, newly appointed Archbishop of
Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declared Henry and Catherine's marriage
null and void; five days later, he declared Henry and Anne's
marriage valid. Shortly afterwards, the Pope decreed sentences of
excommunication against Henry and Cranmer. As a result of this
marriage and these excommunications, the first break between the
Church of England and Rome took place and the Church of England
was brought under the King's control. Anne was crowned Queen Of
England on 1 June 1533. On 7 September, she gave birth to the
future Queen Elizabeth I. Henry was disappointed to have a
daughter rather than a son but hoped a son would follow and
professed to love Elizabeth. Anne subsequently had three
miscarriages, and by March 1536, Henry was courting Jane Seymour.
In order to marry Jane Seymour, Henry had to find reasons to end
the marriage to Anne. Henry VIII had Anne investigated for high
treason in April 1536. On 2 May she was arrested and sent to the
Tower of London, where she was tried before a jury of peers -
which included Henry Percy, her former betrothed, and her own
uncle, Thomas Howard - and found guilty on 15 May. She was
beheaded four days later. Modern historians view the charges
against her, which included adultery, incest and plotting to kill
the king, as unconvincing. Some say that Anne was accused of
witchcraft but the indictments make no mention of this charge.
After the coronation of her daughter, Elizabeth, Anne was
venerated as a martyr and heroine of the English Reformation,
particularly through the works of John Foxe. Over the centuries,
she has inspired, or been mentioned, in many artistic and cultural
works and thereby retained her hold on the popular imagination.
She has been called "the most influential and important queen
consort England has ever had", as she provided the occasion
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May 2, 1568: The Scottish Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of Scotland): Mary, Queen Of Scots: Mary,
Queen Of Scots' Imprisonment In Scotland: Mary, Queen Of Scots'
Escape From Loch Leven Castle: -- Mary, Queen Of Scots, escapes
from Loch Leven Castle with the help of her gaoler's ("jailer's)
family; in 1588, the Queen's gaoler, James Douglas, inherited the
title Earl of Morton, and moved away from the castle. Loch Leven
Castle is a ruined castle on an island in Loch Leven, in the Perth
and Kinross local authority area of Scotland. Possibly built
around 1300, the castle was the location of military action during
the Wars of Scottish Independence (1296-1357). In the latter part
of the 14th century, the castle was granted by his uncle to
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, and remained in the
Douglases' hands for the next 300 years. It was bought, in 1675,
by Sir William Bruce, who used the castle as a focal point in his
garden; it was never again used as a residence. Mary, Queen Of
Scots was imprisoned here in 1567-68, and forced to abdicate as
queen. Today, the remains of the castle are protected as a
scheduled monument in the care of Historic Environment
Scotland.[1] Loch Leven Castle is accessible in summer by the
public via a ferry. Ultimately Mary Stuart, Queen Of Scots, was
beheaded at Fotheringhay, England on February 8, 1587, after 19
years as a prisoner of Queen Elizabeth I. She became entangled in
the complex political events surrounding the Protestant
Reformation in England and was charged with complicity in a plot
to assassinate Elizabeth. Mary, Queen Of Scots, also known as Mary
Stuart or Mary I, reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to
24 July 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of
Scotland, she was six days old when her father died and she
acceded to the throne. She spent most of her childhood in France
while Scotland was ruled by regents, and in 1558, she married the
Dauphin of France, Francis. He ascended the French throne as King
Francis II in 1559, and Mary briefly became queen consort of
France, until his death in December 1560. Widowed, Mary returned
to Scotland, arriving in Leith on 19 August 1561. Four years
later, she married her first cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley,
but their union was unhappy. In February 1567, his residence was
destroyed by an explosion, and Darnley was found murdered in the
garden. James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, was generally
believed to have orchestrated Darnley's death, but he was
acquitted of the charge in April 1567, and the following month he
married Mary. Following an uprising against the couple, Mary was
imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle on an island in Loch Leven in the
Perth and Kinross local authority area of Scotland.. On July
24,1567, she was forced to abdicate in favour of James VI, her
one-year-old son by Darnley. After an unsuccessful attempt to
regain the throne, she fled southwards seeking the protection of
her first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I Of England. Mary
had previously claimed Elizabeth's throne as her own and was
considered the legitimate sovereign of England by many English
Catholics, including participants in a rebellion known as the
Rising of the North. Perceiving her as a threat, Elizabeth had her
confined in various castles and manor houses in the interior of
England. After eighteen and a half years in custody, Mary was
found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth in 1586. She was
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May 2, 1729: #BOTD: Catherine II, most
commonly known as Catherine The Great (Yekaterina Velikaya), the
last reigning Empress of Russia and the country's longest-ruling
female leader (d. November 17, 1796) is #born Princess Sophie
Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst to the House Of Ascania
dynasty in Stettin, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia,
Holy Roman Empire. Her full Russian name as Yekaterina Alekseyevna
Romanova. She converted from Lutheran to Eastern Orthodox on June
28 ,1744, and was received into the church as Yekaterina
Alekseyevna (Catherine, daughter of Aleksey). She married the
Emperor of Russia Peter III and thereby into the House Of
Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov dynasty in 1745 at the age of sixteen,
and came to power following a coup d'etat when her husband was
assassinated. Under her reign, Russia was revitalised; it grew
larger and stronger, and was recognised as one of the great powers
of Europe. In both her accession to power and in rule of her
empire, Catherine often relied on her noble favourites, most
notably Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. Assisted by highly
successful generals such as Alexander Suvorov and Pyotr
Rumyantsev, and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a
time when the Russian Empire was expanding rapidly by conquest and
diplomacy. In the south, the Crimean Khanate was crushed following
victories over the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish wars, and
Russia colonised the territories of Novorossiya along the coasts
of the Black and Azov Seas. In the west, the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king Stanislaw
August Poniatowski, was eventually partitioned, with the Russian
Empire gaining the largest share. In the east, Russia started to
colonise Alaska, establishing Russian America. Catherine reformed
the administration of Russian guberniyas, and many new cities and
towns were founded on her orders. An admirer of Peter The Great,
Catherine continued to modernise Russia along Western European
lines. However, military conscription and the economy continued to
depend on serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and
private landowners led to increased levels of reliance on serfs.
This was one of the chief reasons behind several rebellions,
including the large-scale Pugachev's Rebellion of cossacks and
peasants. The period of Catherine the Great's rule, the
Catherinian Era, is often considered the Golden Age of the Russian
Empire and the Russian nobility. The Manifesto on Freedom of the
Nobility, issued during the short reign of Peter III and confirmed
by Catherine, freed Russian nobles from compulsory military or
state service. Construction of many mansions of the nobility, in
the classical style endorsed by the Empress, changed the face of
the country. She enthusiastically supported the ideals of The
Enlightenment, thus earning the status of an enlightened despot.
As a patron of the arts she presided over the age of the Russian
Enlightenment, a period when the Smolny Institute, the first
state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe,
was established. Catherine The Great died of a stroke at the
Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, aged 67. She is
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May 2, 1863: The American Civil War (The
Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The
American Civil War: The Chancellorsville Campaign: The Battle Of
Chancellorsville: -- Stonewall Jackson is mortally wounded by
friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during
the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight
days later. American Confederate Army general Thomas Jonathan
Jackson was born January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg, Virginia (as ).
He was a West Point graduated who served in the Mexican War then
resigned to teach at the Virginia Military Institute. He sided
with the South and became a Brigadier General, earning his
nickname at the first Battle Of Bull Run as his troops held firm
while others wavered. "There is Jackson standing like a stone
wall," a fellow general commented. He was shot in 1863 by a
Confederate lookout who had mistaken him in the dark. "I have
lost my right arm," lamented General Lee upon his death. On
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May 2, 1869: Grand Openings: Theatre
Grand Openings: Music Hall Openings: -- The Folies Bergere, a
cabaret music hall, located at 32 Rue Richer in the 9th
Arrondissement, in Paris, France, opens in Paris as the Folies
Trevise. It was built as an opera house by the architect Plumeret.
Established in 1869, the house was at the height of its fame and
popularity from the 1890s Belle Epoque through the 1920s. Some of
the best posters of the era were printed to advertise it, Edouard
Manet painted "A Bar At The Folies Bergere" there Revues
featured extravagant costumes, sets and effects, and often nude
women. In 1926, Josephine Baker, an African-American expatriate
singer, dancer and entertainer, caused a sensation in the Folies
Bergere production Un Vent de Folie by dancing in a costume
consisting of a skirt made of a string of artificial bananas and
little else. The institution is still in business, and is still a
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May 2, 1892: #BOTD: Manfred von
Richthofen, famous as "The Red Baron", German captain
and fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World War I,
considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited
with 80 air combat victories (d. April 21, 1918) is #born Manfred
Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen in Kleinburg, near Breslau, Lower
Silesia (now part of the city of Wroclaw, Poland). Originally a
cavalryman, Richthofen transferred to the Air Service in 1915,
becoming one of the first members of fighter squadron Jagdstaffel
2 in 1916. He quickly distinguished himself as a fighter pilot,
and during 1917 became leader of Jasta 11 and then the larger
fighter wing unit Jagdgeschwader 1, better known as "The
Flying Circus" or "Richthofen's Circus" because of
the bright colours of its aircraft, and perhaps also because of
the way the unit was transferred from one area of allied air
activity to another - moving like a travelling circus, and
frequently setting up in tents on improvised airfields. By 1918,
Richthofen was regarded as a national hero in Germany, and
respected by his enemies. He remains one of the most widely known
fighter pilots of all time, and has been the subject of many
books, films and other media. On April 21, 1918: he was shot down
and killed just after 11:00 AM over Vaux-sur-Somme while flying
over Morlancourt Ridge near the Somme River. There has been
considerable discussion and debate regarding aspects of his
career, especially the circumstances of his death. Having crashed
in Allied territory, Officers of No. 3 Squadron of the Australian
Flying Corps (AFC) of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) were
pallbearers at his funeral, and other ranks from the squadron
acted as a guard of honour during the Red Baron's funeral on April
22, 1918. In the early 1920s the French authorities created a
military cemetery at Fricourt, in which a large number of German
war dead, including Richthofen, were reinterred. In 1925 von
Richthofen's youngest brother, Bolko, recovered the body from
Fricourt and took it to Germany. During the Cold War, the
Invalidenfriedhof was on the boundary of the Soviet zone in
Berlin, and the tombstone became damaged by bullets fired at
attempted escapees from East Germany. In 1975 the body was moved
to a Richthofen family grave plot at the Sudfriedhof in Wiesbaden.
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May 2, 1903: #BOTD: #HBD! Benjamin Spock,
American pediatrician, Olympic Gold Medalist rower and author (d.
March 15, 1998) is #born Benjamin McLane Spock in New Haven,
Connecticut. Spock's book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and
Child Care" (1946) is one of the best-sellers of all time.
The book's premise to mothers is that "you know more than you
think you do." Spock was the first pediatrician to study
psychoanalysis to try to understand children's needs and family
dynamics. His ideas about childcare influenced several generations
of parents to be more flexible and affectionate with their
children, and to treat them as individuals. However, they were
also widely criticized by colleagues for relying too heavily on
anecdotal evidence rather than serious academic research. Spock
was an activist in the New Left and anti Vietnam War movements
during the 1960s and early 1970s. At the time, his books were
criticized for propagating permissiveness and an expectation of
instant gratification which allegedly led young people to join
these movements-a charge that Spock denied. Spock also won an
Olympic gold medal in rowing in 1924 while attending Yale
University. Benjamin Spock died of natural causes aged 94 at a
house he was renting in La Jolla, California, His ashes are buried
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May 2, 1908: #BOTD: #HBD! Frank Rowlett,
American cryptologist whose solution of a major Japanese cipher
machine saved hundreds of American lives during World War II (d.
June 29, 1998) is #born Frank Byron Rowlett in Rose Hill, Lee
County, Virginia. Frank B. Rowlett supervised the half-dozen Army
code-breakers who, after 18 months of effort, cracked the chief
Japanese diplomatic cipher machine, known as the Type B Cipher
Machine and codenamed PURPLE by U.S. officials, in September 1940.
Although the solution gave no warning of the Pearl Harbor attack
-- because no messages alerting anybody to the attack were ever
sent -- it paradoxically helped U.S. forces in the European
theater. The PURPLE machine encrypted the dispatches to Tokyo of
the Japanese ambassador in Berlin. One of those messages detailed
German defenses against the expected Allied invasion and was sent
after the ambassador's November 1943 tour of the Atlantic Wall, a
line of fortifications. A U.S. radio post in Ethiopia intercepted
it; U.S. code-breakers read it. It revealed that tank ditches were
"built in a triangular cross-section with a span across the
top of 5 meters and a depth of 3.5 meters." Turrets were
"built in a continuous line, close to the shore," each
equipped with two or three machine guns, as well as grenade
launchers. Mr. Rowlett said he believed that the information from
that message alone saved thousands of U.S. lives. Mr. Rowlett, a
soft-spoken, courteous Virginian who had been a mathematics
teacher, joined what was then the Army's Signal Intelligence
Service as a junior cryptanalyst on April 1, 1930. He said in an
interview that he felt his greatest contribution to the PURPLE
attack was his confidence that the machine would be solved. He has
been awarded the National Security Medal, the Legion of Merit and
the Order of the British Empire. Mr. Rowlett, a native of Rose
Hill, received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and math from
Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va., in 1929. He lived in
Arlington and Ellicott City before retiring to Sarasota, Fla., in
1966. He moved to Gaithersburg in 1997. His first wife, Edith King
Rowlett, died in 1980. His second wife, Alice Creech Rowlett, died
in 1997. A son, Frank Jr., of Sarasota, died in 1983. Survivors
include a son, Thomas M. Rowlett of Frederick, Maryland. Frank
Rowlett died of congestive heart failure at the Wilson Health Care
Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland at age 90. He is buried at
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Today, May 2, 2026
May 2, 1918: The History Of The
Automobile: The History Of The Automotive Industry: Mergers And
Acquisitions (M & A): The General Motors Company (GM)
Acquisition Of The Chevrolet Motor Company: -- General Motors
acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. Chevrolet,
colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet
Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile
division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis
Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant
started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car
Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a
controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger
occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM
presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan,
with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose",
would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the
General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with
Henry Ford's Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the
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May 2, 1920: The History Of Sports: The
History Of Sports In The United States: The History Of Baseball:
The History Of Baseball In The United States: The History Of Negro
League Baseball: -- The first game of the Negro National League
baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana. The first Negro
National League (NNL) was one of the several Negro leagues that
were established during the period in the United States when
organized baseball was segregated. The league was formed in 1920
with former player Rube Foster as its president. Led by Rube
Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the NNL
was established on February 13, 1920, by a coalition of team
owners at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA. The new league was the
first African American baseball circuit to achieve stability and
last more than one season. At first the league operated mainly in
midwestern cities, ranging from Kansas City in the west to
Pittsburgh in the east; in 1924 it expanded into the south, adding
franchises in Birmingham, Alabama, and Memphis, Tennessee. The two
most important east coast clubs, the Hilldale Club of Darby,
Pennsylvania, and the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, were
affiliated with the NNL as associate clubs from 1920 to 1922, but
did not compete for the championship. In 1923 they and four other
eastern teams formed the Eastern Colored League (ECL) and raided
the NNL for many of its top players, including John Henry Lloyd,
Biz Mackey, George Scales, George Carr, and Clint Thomas, and
signing Oscar Charleston, and Reuben Currie in 1924. The war
between the two leagues came to an end in 1924, when they agreed
to respect each other's contracts and arranged for the Colored
World Series between their champions. The NNL survived
controversies over umpiring, scheduling, and what some perceived
as league president Rube Foster's disproportionate influence and
favoritism toward his own team. It also outlasted Foster's decline
into mental illness in 1926, and its eastern rival, the ECL, which
folded in early 1928. The NNL finally fell apart in 1931 under the
economic stress of the Great Depression. The Negro American
League, founded in 1937 and including several of the same teams
that played in the original Negro National League, would
eventually carry on as the western circuit of black baseball. A
second Negro National League was organized in 1933, but eventually
became concentrated on the east coast. To distinguish between the
two unrelated leagues, they are usually referred to as the first
Negro National League (NNL I) and the second Negro National League
(NNL II). From 1920 through 1924, the team in first place at the
end of the season was declared the Pennant winner. Due to the
unorthodox nature of the schedule (and little incentive to enforce
it), some teams frequently played many more games than others did
in any given season. This led to some disputed championships and
two teams claiming the title. The 1931 season did not finish all
games, which meant that while St. Louis was awarded the title,
non-member Pittsburgh Crawfords disputed their status as champion.
From 1924 to 1927, the pennant champion went to play in the Negro
World Series. Generally, the team with the best winning percentage
(with some minimum number of games played) was awarded the
Pennant, but other times it was the team with the most victories.
The "games behind" method of recording standings was
uncommon in most black leagues. From 1925 through 1931, the NNL
split the season into two halves. The winner of the first half
played the winner of the second half for the league Pennant. As
mentioned above, disputes also occurred in the split season
finishes. 1929 and 1931 saw Kansas City win both halves. For the
duration of the league, a Colored World Series took place four
times, from 1924 through 1927. The NNL Pennant winner met the
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May 2, 1929: #BOTD: #HBD! Link Wray,
Native American Shawnee pioneer rock and roll guitarist,
songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s,
whose 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble" by Link Wray And
His Ray Men popularized the power chord, which became the
foundation of modern rock guitar music from rock to punk (d.
November 5, 2005) is #born Fred Lincoln Wray, Jr. in Dunn, North
Carolina, to Fred Lincoln Wray Sr. and Lillian Mae (nee Coats),
whom her son identified as being Shawnee. He recalled living in
very harsh conditions during childhood, in mud huts, without
electricity or heating, going to school barefoot, barely clothed.
He recounted that his family experienced discrimination, including
times when they had to hide from the Ku Klux Klan. Wray later
said: "The cops, the sheriff, the drugstore owner - they were
all Ku Klux Klan. They put the masks on and, if you did something
wrong, they'd tie you to a tree and whip you or kill you."
His family listed themselves as White on census records. Three
songs Wray performed during his career were named for Indigenous
peoples: "Shawnee", "Apache", and "Comanche".
Though he began in country music, his musical style went on to
consist primarily of rock and roll, rockabilly, and instrumental
rock. Link Wray built on the distorted electric guitar sound of
early rock and roll records records and mixed it with the songs
and rhythms of black rhythm and blues. He is cited as an influence
by Iggy Pop and Neil Young. Jimmy Page says that Link Wray had a
"real rebel attitude" and credits him in It Might Get
Loud as a major influence in his early career. According to
Rolling Stone, Pete Townshend of The Who once said, "If it
hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I never would have picked
up a guitar." Wray's first three marriages, to Elizabeth
Canady Wray, Ethel Tidwell Wray, and Sharon Cole Wray, produced
eight children. In the early 1980s, Wray relocated to Denmark and
married Olive Povlsen, who became his manager. Wray died of heart
failure at his home in Copenhagen, on November 5, 2005, at the age
of 76. He was survived by his nine children, 24 grandchildren, and
two great-grandchildren. Wray was cremated, and his ashes were
buried in the crypt of the Christian's Church, Copenhagen. Rolling
Stone placed Wray at No. 45 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all
time. In 2013 and 2017 he was a nominee for the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, prior to being inducted in the Musical Influence category
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May 2, 1933: The Interwar Period (The
Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Road To War: Nazi Germany (The
German Reich, The Third Reich): Gleichschaltung (Nazification): --
The day after Adolf Hitler allowed the trade unions to engage in
marches and rallies in observance of May Day, Hitler bans trade
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May 2, 1945: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great
Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): The Battle Of Berlin (The
Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation, The Fall Of Berlin): The
Battle In Berlin: The Fall Of The Third Reich: The Battle For The
Reich Chancellery: -- The Soviets conduct a morning storming of
the Reich Chancellery. In the official Soviet version, the battle
was similar to that of the battle for the Reichstag. There was an
assault over Wilhelmplatz and into the building with a howitzer to
blast open the front doors and several battles within the
building. Major Anna Nikulina, a political officer with
Lieutenant-General I. P. Rossly's 9th Rifle Corps of the 5th Shock
Army carried and unfurled the red flag on the roof. Beevor claims
that the official Soviet description is an exaggeration, as most
of the German combat troops had left in the breakouts the night
before, and resistance must have been far less than that inside
the Reichstag. At 01:00 hours, the Soviets picked up radio message
from the German LVI Corps requesting a cease-fire and stating that
emissaries would come under a white flag to Potsdamer bridge.
General Weidling surrendered with his staff at 06:00 hours. He was
taken to see Lieutenant-General Chuikov at 8:23 am. Chuikov, who
had commanded the successful defence of Stalingrad, asked: "You
are the commander of the Berlin garrison?" Weidling replied:
"Yes, I am the commander of the LVI Panzer Corps."
Chuikov then asked: "Where is Krebs? What did he say?"
Weidling replied: "I saw him yesterday in the Reich
Chancellery." Weidling then added: "I thought he would
commit suicide." In the discussions that followed, Weidling
agreed to an unconditional surrender of the city of Berlin. He
agreed to order the city's defenders to surrender to the Soviets.
Under the direction of Chuikov and Soviet General Vasily
Sokolovsky (Chief of staff of the 1st Ukrainian Front), Weidling
put his order to surrender in writing. The 350-strong garrison of
the Zoo flak tower finally left the building. There was sporadic
fighting in a few isolated buildings where some SS still refused
to surrender. The Soviets simply blasted any such building to
rubble. Most Germans, soldiers and civilians, were grateful to
receive food issued at Red Army soup kitchens. The Soviets went
house to house and rounded up anyone in a uniform including
firemen and railwaymen, which led to them later exaggerating the
total number of German troops in the city. The Soviet flag is
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May 2, 1945: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great
Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): The Battle Of Berlin (The
Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation, The Fall Of Berlin): The
Battle In Berlin: The Fall Of The Third Reich: -- The Soviet Union
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May 2, 1945: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great
Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): The Battle Of Berlin (The
Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation, The Fall Of Berlin): The
Battle In Berlin: The Fall Of The Third Reich: The Battle For The
Reichstag: Raising A Flag Over The Reichstag: -- Soviet soldiers
raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. The Soviet
Banner of Victory is the banner raised by the Red Army soldiers on
the Reichstag building in Berlin, on May 1, 1945, the day after
Adolf Hitler committed suicide. It was raised by three Soviet
soldiers: Alexei Berest, Mikhail Yegorov, and Meliton Kantaria,
from USSR. The Victory Banner, made under battlefield conditions,
is the official symbol of the Victory of the Soviet people against
Nazi Germany during the Second World War. It is also one of the
national treasures of Russia. The Cyrillic inscription reads
"150th Rifle, Order of Kutuzov 2nd class, Idritsa Division,
79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army, 1st Byelorussian Front".
Although this flag was not the only one to be hoisted on the
Reichstag, it was the first and only survivor of all the
"official" flags specially prepared to be raised there.
According to the Law of the Russian Federation, the Banner of
Victory is to be stored forever in a place which provides its
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May 2, 1945: History Of The Jews In
Germany: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European
War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah):
The Holocaust In Germany: -- The US 82nd Airborne Division
liberates Wobbelin Concentration Camp, finding 1000 dead
prisoners, most of whom starved to death. Wobbelin Concentration
Camp was a subcamp of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp near the
city of Ludwigslust, a central castle town of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The SS had established Wobbelin
to house concentration camp prisoners whom the SS had evacuated
from other camps to prevent their liberation by the Allies. At its
height, Wobbelin held some 5,000 inmates, most of whom were
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May 2, 1945: History Of The Jews In
Germany: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European
War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah):
The Holocaust In Germany: Dachau Concentration Camp: -- A death
march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the
segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S.
Army in southern Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners. Dachau
concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camps
opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. It is
located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast
of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km northwest of Munich in
the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. Its purpose was
enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment
of Jews, German and Austrian criminals, and eventually foreign
nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. The
Dachau camp system grew to include nearly 100 sub-camps, which
were mostly work camps or Arbeitskommandos, and were located
throughout southern Germany and Austria. The camps were liberated
by U.S. forces on 29 April 1945. Prisoners lived in constant fear
of brutal treatment and terror detention including standing cells,
floggings, the so-called tree or pole hanging, and standing at
attention for extremely long periods. There were 32,000 documented
deaths at the camp, and thousands that are undocumented.
Approximately 10,000 of the 30,000 prisoners were sick at the time
of liberation. In the postwar years the Dachau facility served to
hold SS soldiers awaiting trial. After 1948, it held ethnic
Germans who had been expelled from eastern Europe and were
awaiting resettlement, and also was used for a time as a United
States military base during the occupation. It was finally closed
in 1960. There are several religious memorials within the Memorial
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May 2, 1945: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World
War II: The Italian Campaign Of World War II (The Liberation Of
Italy): The Spring 1945 Offensive In Italy (Operation Grapeshot):
The Surrender Of Caserta (Italian: Resa Di Caserta (The Surrender
Of German And Italian Fascist Forces In Italy): -- German General
Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of
surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy, ending the Italian
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May 2, 1945: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World
War II: The Italian Campaign Of World War II (The Liberation Of
Italy): The Italian Civil War (Italian: Guerra Civile Italiana):
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May 2, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! Lesley Gore,
American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist (d. February
16, 2015) is #born Lesley Sue Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York
City, into a middle-class Jewish family. In 1963, at the age of
16, she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party". It became
a number one, nationwide hit, and it was the first hit single for
producer Quincy Jones. They followed it up with other hits
including "Judy's Turn to Cry", "She's a Fool",
"You Don't Own Me", "Maybe I Know" and
"California Nights". Gore also worked as an actress and
composed songs with her brother, Michael Gore, for the 1980 film
Fame, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She hosted
an LGBT-oriented public television show, In the Life, on American
TV in the 2000s, and was active until 2014. Gore had been working
on a memoir and a Broadway show based on her life when she died of
lung cancer on February 16, 2015, at the NYU Langone Medical
Center in Manhattan, New York City, at the age of 68. She was
cremated, and her ashes were scattered at an undetermined
location. At the time of her death, Gore and her partner Lois
Sasson had been together for 33 years. They planned to be married
in the summer of 2015. Her New York Times obituary stated, "with
songs like 'It's My Party,' 'Judy's Turn to Cry', and the
indelibly defiant 1964 single 'You Don't Own Me' - all recorded
before she was 18 - Gore made herself the voice of teenaged girls
aggrieved by fickle boyfriends, moving quickly from tearful
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May 2, 1952: Aviation: The History Of
Aviation: The History Of Civil Aviation: Maiden Flights: -- The De
Havilland Comet 1, the first ever jet airliner, makes its maiden
commercial service flight with BOAC, from London to Johannesburg.
Developed and manufactured by de Havilland at its Hatfield
Aerodrome in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, it featured an
aerodynamically clean design with four de Havilland Ghost turbojet
engines buried in the wing roots, a pressurised cabin, and large
square windows. For the era, it offered a relatively quiet,
comfortable passenger cabin and was commercially promising at its
debut in 1952. However, within a year of entering airline service
problems started to emerge, with three Comets lost within twelve
months in highly publicised accidents, after suffering
catastrophic in-flight break-ups. Two of these were found to be
caused by structural failure resulting from metal fatigue in the
airframe, a phenomenon not fully understood at the time. The other
one was due to overstressing of the airframe during flight through
severe weather. The Comet was withdrawn from service and
extensively tested. Design and construction flaws, including
improper riveting and dangerous concentrations of stress around
some square openings in the fuselage, were ultimately identified.
As a result, the Comet was extensively redesigned, with oval
windows, structural reinforcements and other changes. Rival
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May 2, 1955: Literature: The History Of
Literature: Journalism: The History Of Drama: American Literary
Awards: American Drama Awards: The Pulitzer Prize: The Pulitzer
Prize For Drama: -- Tennessee Williams wins The Pulitzer Prize For
Drama for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Thomas Lanier Williams III, known
by his pen name Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 - February 25,
1983) was, along with his contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur
Miller, considered among the three foremost playwrights of
20th-century American drama. After years of obscurity, at age 33
he became suddenly famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie
(1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own
unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of
successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof (1955) (both of which won the Pulitzer Prize), Sweet
Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his
later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to
audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on
short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century
alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Much of Williams' most
acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote
short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979,
four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the
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May 2, 1989: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The
Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations,
The Fall Of Communism): The Removal Of Hungary's Border Fence With
Austria: -- In the first fissure in the "Iron Curtain"
that had divided Europe for more than 40 years since the end of
World War II, Hungary begins dismantling its 240 Km/149 Mi long
electified border fence with Austria, which allows many East
Germans to defect. The removal of Hungary's border fence with
Austria occurred during the collapse of communism in Hungary, and
caused a chain reaction in East Germany that ultimately resulted
in the demise of the Berlin Wall, part of a broad wave of
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May 2, 2011: The War On Terror (The
Global War On Terrorism [GWOT]): The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden:
(The Death Of Osama Bin Laden, Operation Neptune Spear): -- #DOTD:
Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist
terrorist group Al-Qaeda, the suspected mastermind behind the
September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by
United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare
Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six) in
Abbottabad, Pakistan, shortly after 1:00 am PKT (20:00 UTC, May
1). It was a CIA-led operation with Joint Special Operations
Command, commonly known as JSOC, coordinating the Special Mission
Units involved in the raid. In addition to SEAL Team Six,
participating units under JSOC included the 160th Special
Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) - also known as "Night
Stalkers" - and operators from the CIA's Special Activities
Division, which recruits heavily from former JSOC Special Mission
Units. The operation ended a nearly 10-year search for bin Laden,
following his role in the September 11 attacks on the United
States. The raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan
was launched from Afghanistan. U.S. military officials said that
after the raid U.S. forces took the body of bin Laden to
Afghanistan for identification, then buried it at sea within 24
hours of his death in accordance with Islamic tradition. Al-Qaeda
confirmed the death on May 6 with posts made on militant websites,
vowing to avenge the killing. Other Pakistani militant groups,
including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, vowed retaliation against
the U.S. and against Pakistan for not preventing the operation.
The raid was supported by over 90% of the American public, was
welcomed by the United Nations, NATO, the European Union and a
large number of governments, but was condemned by others,
including two-thirds of the Pakistani public. Legal and ethical
aspects of the killing, such as his not being taken alive despite
being unarmed, were questioned by others, including Amnesty
International. Also controversial was the decision not to release
any photographic or DNA evidence of bin Laden's death to the
public. In the aftermath of the killing, Pakistani Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gillani formed a commission under Senior Justice Javed
Iqbal to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attack. The
resulting Abbottabad Commission Report, which revealed Pakistani
state military and intelligence authorities' "collective
failure" that enabled bin Laden to hide in Pakistan for nine
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Today, May 2, 2026
May 2: National Sandra Day: A day that
celebrates all those who bear the name. Sandra is a Greek female
name meaning 'protector of man.' It is the short form of Alexandra
or Cassandra, which can be spelled as Kassandra. In the Greek
mythologies, Cassandra is the daughter of King Priam and Queen
Hecuba of Troy. Apollo blessed her with the gift of prophecy but
later cursed her for enjoying his gift but not falling in love
with him. Did you know that over 7,000 girls born in the United
States in 1990 were named Cassandra? Unfortunately, in 2021, only
about 493 girls are called Cassandra. National Sandra Day is
observed on May 2 annually to speak about the origin of the name,
its surrounding myths, and variations and to appreciate all the
Sandras on earth. Sandra originates from Greek. According to Greek
mythology, Sandra is derived from Alexandros, wife of Zeus, who
was notable for resisting the powers of Zeus. Her sister, Hera -
the Goddess and Queen of Olympus, was a beautiful, complex, and
fascinating entity to the Greeks. She served as the defender of
heroes and warriors and the Goddess of Women and Children. Sandra
is famous with Italians, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese,
Germans, and others. Its variations are dependent on the language
and culture of those who bear it. The Italian variant is Alessa
while the American is Saundra. Aliaksandra is for the Belarusians,
Szandra for the Hungarians, Sashenka for Russians, and Oleksandra
for Ukrainians. The marriage between King Edward VII and Alexandra
of Denmark in 1863 and the 1864 novel "Emilia in England,"
published by George Meredith, made the name popular in England.
Across the world, Sandras are famous in different professions.
Sandra Annette Bullock, born July 1964, is an American actress,
producer, and philanthropist. In 2010, she was included in
"Time's" 100 Most Influential People in the world and
was the highest-paid actress in 2010 and 2014. Sandra Day O'Connor
is a retired U.S. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Some
publications have ranked her as one of the most powerful women in
the world. Sandra Sully is an Australian news presenter and
journalist who has also edited for Sydney's "10 News First"
since 2011. Sandra Taylor is an American model and actress. She
was named America's number one selling Poster Model. She has
appeared in movies like "Batman and Robin," and "Runaway
Bride."
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Bad
Lord Byron (1949) Docudramatic Biography DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2: National Byron Day: -- A day that
honors of all those lucky people bearing the name Byron. Some,
known as toponymic names, refer to the place from which they
derive. Byron, for example, originates from Byram, a town in North
Yorkshire, England. The name is associated with prominent
Englishmen, ranging from military officers to explorers, actors,
and artists. It also cuts outside Europe, and many Americans bear
it. An interesting thing about the name is that some people like
it, as much as they hate it, all because of one person they
dislike. The inaugural celebration of National Byron Day is to
happen in 2023. Despite its recent beginning, the day will
doubtless be highly anticipated as many around the globe relate to
the name. It will also be informative and fun to learn about their
namesakes and how common, popular, and maybe, even hated their
name is. The name Byron has been adopted by notable English nobles
and countrymen alike. According to a one-time survey of over 100
people, it is considered classic, natural, nerdy, mature, and, of
course, upper class. In 2011, it was the 407th most popular name
in the U.K. In the U.S., it was the 287th most popular in 1991,
but by 2021, it had dropped to 751th. The famous romantic poet,
George Gordon Byron, known simply as Lord Byron, was well-known as
the sixth Baron Byron not only in England but also outside his
country. In 2008, the Greek government created Byron Day to be
celebrated every April 19 in his honor. He was the author of the
two notable and lengthy poems "Don Juan" and '"Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage," with 555 and 128 pages, respectively.
Even though Friedrich Nietzsche was fascinated with the writer,
Byron was a contentious figure due to his bisexuality, and sexual
immorality after an amorous relationship with his half-sister,
with whom he sired a child. His grandfather was Vice-Admiral John
Byron, who circumnavigated the world in the 1700s. Thanks to the
famous 20th-century actor, James Byron Dean, who starred in the
movie "Rebel Without A Cause," the name became
popularized in America. As did the multi-instrumentalist, Don
Byron. Other notable figures named Byron include the current
Tennessee governor, William Byron Lee, American artist Judy Byron,
the priest of America's Society of Jesus, Rev. William J. Byron,
and many others.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, May 2, 2026May 2: International Scurvy Awareness
Day: -- You might be wondering why the world still needs to worry
about scurvy. It is not a disease limited to those who went on
great voyages of discovery and did not eat enough fruits and
vegetables from their ship's limited provisions. The truth is that
the disease is still prevalent in the world due to widespread
malnutrition and starvation in many countries as well as the
surprising number of individuals who undergo highly selective
diets that exclude foods rich in Vitamin C. The day is also
observed to pay respects to the people who endured it in the past.
Their magnificent endurance shaped the world that we know today.
Naturally, we cannot forget those who still endure such suffering
even now. Scurvy was first noted during the Crusades which took
place from the 11th to the 13th Century. European Christian powers
sent forces to conquer opposing religions. During these long
journeys, it was common for the men to slowly lose their strength
and develop health issues that we now know as scurvy symptoms. It
was only in the 1500s onwards that scurvy was recognized as an
ultimately life-threatening disease after roughly 2,000,000
sailors died from the disease. The distressingly high death toll
due to the disease sparked concern and further investigation from
naval commanders and physicians alike. Commodore George Anson
reported 1,855 out of 2,000 of his men perishing due to scurvy.
After hearing Anson's report, a physician called James Lind was
interested enough to investigate the disease that was wiping out
the British naval forces. Lind went on to conduct trials to test
treatment methods he'd heard other naval medical officers
implement and ultimately proved that citrus fruits could prevent
the disease and help sailors maintain good health during voyages.
Despite his findings being true, Lind sadly passed away before
they could become popularized. It was only at the end of the 1800s
that prevention measures such as daily rations of vitamin C in the
form of a juice became commonplace. After the staggering losses
endured during many long voyages across land and sea, scurvy
became a disease known to be fatal and highly preventable for many
years. Now, though, many people view scurvy as a disease that's
attached to the stereotypical pop-culture pirate.
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Today, May 2, 2026May 2: National Play Your Ukulele Day: --
A day celebrated to get more and more people interested in the
instrument while also encouraging those playing it to strum their
favorite tunes. The ukulele belongs to the guitar family of
instruments. While the guitar is recognized by its six strings,
the ukulele has only four. When it comes to its size, a ukulele is
much smaller than a guitar. This makes the instrument easy to
carry around and play for those who have smaller hands - for
example, children. The first thing to know about a ukulele is that
it has four notes - the notes that you can play on the ukulele are
G, C, E, and A. The word 'ukulele' has Hawaiian roots. In the
language, the word means 'jumping flea.' The name was probably
picked because the musician's fingers look like fleas jumping on
the strings when skillfully played! Even though the instrument's
name has Hawaiian roots, it was brought to the island of Hawaii by
Portuguese immigrants. The ukulele was brought to mainstream music
in the early 20th century, and it quickly became a popular
instrument for jazz music. The ukulele, sometimes also known as
the 'uke,' is also a part of country and pop music. You must have
seen musical superstars like Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest V, Taylor
Swift, Eddie Vedder, and George Harrison playing the ukulele
during their performances. The skillful tunes of the ukulele make
it the perfect accompaniment to most genres of music! And, of
course, those who sing covers also prefer to sing along to the
rhythm of the ukulele. Mike Lynch, also known as "Ukulele
Mike," is the man behind National Play Your Ukulele Day. The
day was first celebrated in 2011, and Lynch was a school teacher
and an online ukulele instructor. He passed away in January 2018,
but his memory lives on through National Play Your Ukulele Day.
The day is celebrated by those who enjoy music and love playing
the instrument. This is also a great day to learn how to play the
ukulele!
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1519: #DOTD: #RIP: Leonardo da
Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest
included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science,
music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology,
astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography (b. April 15,
1452) #dies at Clos Luce, France on at the age of 67, possibly of
a stroke. King Francis I of France had become a close friend.
Giorgio Vasari (Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a
painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best
known for his work The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters,
Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation
of all art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of
several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci and
Michelangelo), describes Leonardo as lamenting on his deathbed,
full of repentance, that "he had offended against God and men
by failing to practice his art as he should have done."
Vasari states that in his last days, Leonardo sent for a priest to
make his confession and to receive the Holy Sacrament. Vasari also
records that the King Francis I held Leonardo's head in his arms
as he died, although this story may be legend rather than fact. In
accordance with his will, sixty beggars carrying tapers followed
Leonardo's casket. Count Francesco Melzi, da Vinci's friend and
apprentice who painted the only certain contemporary depiction of
Leonardo, was the principal heir and executor, receiving, as well
as money, Leonardo's paintings, tools, library and personal
effects. Leonardo's other long-time pupil and companion, Salai,
and his servant Baptista de Vilanis, each received half of
Leonardo's vineyards. His brothers received land, and his serving
woman received a fur-lined cloak. On August 12, 1519, Leonardo's
remains were interred in the Collegiate Church of Saint Florentin
at the Chateau d'Amboise. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more
commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo or da Vinci, has
been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and
architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest
painters of all time. Credited with the inventions of the
parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance
humanist ideal. Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as
the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or
"Renaissance Man", an individual of "unquenchable
curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination",
and he is widely considered one of the most diversely talented
individuals ever to have lived. The scope and depth of his
interests were without precedent in recorded history. While there
is much speculation regarding his life and personality, his view
of the world was logical rather than mysterious, and that the
empirical methods he employed were unorthodox for his time. Born
out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman,
Caterina, in Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was
educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter Andrea
del Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the
service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome,
Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the
home awarded to him by Francis I of France. Leonardo was, and is,
renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is
the most famous and most parodied portrait, and The Last Supper
the most reproduced religious painting of all time. Leonardo's
drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon,
being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks,
and T-shirts. A painting by Leonardo, Salvator Mundi, sold for a
world record 450M USD at a Christie's auction in New York,
November 15, 2017, the highest price ever paid for a work of art.
Perhaps fifteen of his paintings have survived. Nevertheless,
these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain
drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of
painting, compose a contribution to later generations of artists
rivalled only by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo. Leonardo
is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised
flying machines, a type of armoured fighting vehicle, concentrated
solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull. Relatively
few of his designs were constructed or even feasible during his
lifetime, as the modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and
engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance.
Some of his smaller inventions, however, such as an automated
bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of
wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. A number of
Leonardo's most practical inventions are nowadays displayed as
working models at the Museum of Vinci. He made substantial
discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, geology, optics, and
hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no
direct influence on later science.
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Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1844(?): #BOTD: HBD! Elijah McCoy,
Canadian-American engineer of African-American descent who
invented lubrication systems for steam engines, origin of the
popular expression "the real McCoy", meaning "the
real thing", attributed to Elijah McCoy's oil-drip cup
invention that railroad engineers looking to avoid inferior copies
would request by name, nd inquire if a locomotive was fitted with
"the real McCoy system" (d. October 10, 1929) is #born
Elijah J. McCoy in Colchester, Ontario, born free on the Ontario
shore of Lake Erie to fugitive slaves George and Mildred Goins
McCoy who had escaped from Kentucky to Ontario via helpers through
the Underground Railroad. He traveled to the United States as a
young child when his family returned in 1847, becoming a U.S.
resident and citizen. His inventions and accomplishments were
honored in 2012 when the United States Patent and Trademark Office
named its first regional office, in Detroit, Michigan, the "Elijah
J. McCoy Midwest Regional Patent Office". Elijah McCoy died
in the Eloise Infirmary in Nankin Township, now Westland,
Michigan, at the age of 85, as a result of injuries suffered in a
car accident seven years earlier in which his wife Mary died. He
is buried in Detroit Memorial Park East in Warren, Michigan.
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Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1969: #DOTD: Franz von Papen,
German nobleman, General Staff officer and politician, Chancellor
of Germany (b. October 29, 1879) #dies in Obersasbach, West
Germany at the age of 89. He is buried at Wallerfangen, Saarland
in south west Germany on the border of France. Franz von Papen was
born Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen into a wealthy
and noble Catholic family in Werl, Westphalia, Prussia, German
Empire. He served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as
Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933-34. He belonged to the
group of close advisers to President Paul von Hindenburg in the
late Weimar Republic. It was largely Papen, believing that Hitler
could be controlled once he was in the government, who persuaded
Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor in a cabinet not under
Nazi Party domination. However, Papen and his allies were quickly
marginalized by Hitler and he left the government after the Night
of the Long Knives, during which the Nazis killed some of his
confidantes. Hitler appointed him Ambassador to Austria until it
was annexed by Germany, then Ambassador to Turkey. He was a
defendant at the Nuremberg trials; the court acquitted him,
stating that while he had committed a number of "political
immoralities," these actions were not punishable under the
"conspiracy to commit crimes against peace" written in
Papen's indictment. The American and British judges voted to
acquit while the Soviet and French judges voted to convict, and
under the rules of Nuremberg, this resulted in an acquittal.
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Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1945: #DOTD: Martin Bormann,
prominent official in Nazi Germany as head of the Nazi Party
Chancellery (b. June 17, 1900) #dies under circumstances that for
more than five decades were considered mysterious until DNA
testing proved the accounts of eyewitnesses to Bormann's last
hours. According to the account of the death of Adolf Hitler by
Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann, Bormann left the Fuhrerbunker
with him along with SS doctor Ludwig Stumpfegger and Hitler's
pilot Hans Baur at around 11:00 pm on May 1, part of one of the
groups attempting to break out of the Soviet encirclement. Bormann
carried with him a copy of Hitler's last will and testament. The
group left the Fuhrerbunker and travelled on foot via a U-Bahn
subway tunnel to the Friedrichstrasse station, where they
surfaced. Several members of the party attempted to cross the
Spree River at the Weidendammer Bridge while crouching behind a
Tiger tank. The tank was hit by an anti-tank round and Bormann and
Stumpfegger were knocked to the ground. Bormann, Stumpfegger, and
several others eventually crossed the river on their third
attempt. Bormann, Stumpfegger, and Axmann walked along the railway
tracks to Lehrter station, where Axmann decided to leave the
others and go in the opposite direction. When he encountered a Red
Army patrol, Axmann doubled back. He saw two bodies, which he
later identified as Bormann and Stumpfegger, on a bridge near the
railway switching yard. He did not have time to check thoroughly,
so he did not know how they died. Since the Soviets never admitted
to finding Bormann's body, his fate remained in doubt for many
years. Over the following decades, several organisations,
including the CIA and West German government, attempted to locate
Bormann without success. In 1964, the West German government
offered a reward of 100K DM for information leading to Bormann's
capture. Sightings were reported all over the world, including
Australia, Denmark, Italy, and South America. In his
autobiography, Nazi intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen claimed
that Bormann had been a Soviet spy and had escaped to Moscow. Nazi
hunter Simon Wiesenthal believed that Bormann was living in South
America. The West German government declared that its hunt for
Bormann was over in 1971. In 1963, a retired postal worker named
Albert Krumnow told police that around May 8, 1945, the Soviets
had ordered him and his colleagues to bury two bodies found near a
railway bridge near Lehrter station (now Berlin Hauptbahnhof). One
was dressed in a Wehrmacht uniform and the other was clad only in
his underwear. On the second body, Krumnow's colleague Wagenpfohl
found an SS doctor's paybook identifying him as Ludwig
Stumpfegger. Wagenpfohl gave the paybook to his boss, postal chief
Berndt, who turned it over to the Soviets. They in turn destroyed
it. Wagenpfohl wrote to Stumpfegger's wife on August 14, 1945,
informing her that her husband's body was "interred with the
bodies of several other dead soldiers in the grounds of the
Alpendorf in Berlin NW 40, Invalidenstrasse 63." Excavations
on July 20-21, 1965 at the site specified by Axmann and Krumnow
failed to locate the bodies. However, on December 7, 1972,
construction workers uncovered human remains near Lehrter station
in West Berlin, only 12 m (39 ft) from the spot where Krumnow
claimed to have buried them. At the subsequent autopsies,
fragments of glass were found in the jaws of both skeletons,
suggesting that the men had committed suicide by biting cyanide
capsules to avoid capture. Dental records reconstructed from
memory in 1945 by Hugo Blaschke identified one skeleton as
Bormann's, and damage to the collarbone was consistent with
injuries that Bormann's sons reported he had sustained in a riding
accident in 1939. Forensic examiners determined that the size of
the skeleton and shape of the skull were identical to Bormann's.
Likewise, the second skeleton was deemed to be Stumpfegger's,
since it was of similar height to his last known proportions.
Composite photographs, in which images of the skulls were overlaid
on photographs of the men's faces, were completely congruent.
Facial reconstruction was undertaken in early 1973 on both skulls
to confirm the identities of the bodies. Soon afterward, the West
German government declared Bormann dead. The family was not
permitted to cremate the body, in case further forensic
examination later proved necessary. The remains were conclusively
identified as Bormann's in 1998 when German authorities ordered
genetic testing on fragments of the skull. The testing was led by
Wolfgang Eisenmenger, Professor of Forensic Science at Ludwig
Maximilian University of Munich. Tests using DNA from one of his
relatives identified the skull as that of Bormann. Bormann's
remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered over the Baltic
Sea on August 16, 1999. Martin Bormann was born Martin Ludwig
Bormann in Wegeleben, Prussia, German Empire. He gained immense
power by using his position as Adolf Hitler's private secretary to
control the flow of information and access to Hitler. He succeeded
Hitler as Party Minister of the National Socialist German Workers'
Party after Hitler's suicide on 30 April 1945. Bormann joined a
paramilitary Freikorps organisation in 1922 while working as
manager of a large estate. He served nearly a year in prison as an
accomplice to his friend Rudolf Hoess (later commandant of
Auschwitz concentration camp) in the murder of Walther Kadow, a
German school teacher who was a member of the rightwing German
Volkisch Freedom Party, and was suspected of having betrayed
German nationalist Albert Leo Schlageter to the French occupation
authorities in the Ruhr. Bormann joined the Nazi Party in 1927 and
the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1937. He initially worked in the party's
insurance service, and transferred in July 1933 to the office of
Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess, where he served as Chief Of Staff.
Bormann used his position to create an extensive bureaucracy and
involve himself as much as possible in the decision making. He
gained acceptance into Hitler's inner circle, and accompanied him
everywhere, providing briefings and summaries of events and
requests. He began acting as Hitler's personal secretary on 12
August 1935. Bormann assumed Hess' former duties, with the title
of Head of the Parteikanzlei (Party Chancellery), after Hess' solo
flight to Britain on 10 May 1941 to seek peace negotiations with
the British government. He had final approval over civil service
appointments, reviewed and approved legislation, and by 1943 had
de facto control over all domestic matters. Bormann was one of the
leading proponents of the ongoing persecution of the Christian
churches and favoured harsh treatment of Jews and Slavs in the
areas conquered by Germany during World War II. Bormann returned
with Hitler to the Fuehrerbunker in Berlin on January 16, 1945 as
the Red Army approached the city. After Hitler committed suicide,
Bormann and others attempted to flee Berlin on May 2 to avoid
capture by the Soviets. What happened next remains controversial.
Bormann may either have committed suicide or been killed by
advancing Red Army forces on or near an unnamed bridge near
Lehrter station, the main train station in Berlin. The body was
reported to have been buried nearby on 8 May 1945, according to a
1963 account by a retired postal worker named Albert Krumnow, but
the body was not found until 1972. It was confirmed as Bormann's
body in 1972 based on the accounts of those involved with the
burial, relying on their memory of events two decades previous,
and the identification was reaffirmed in 1998 by DNA tests, the
science of which is not in doubt, but the results may not have
been honestly reported, as was the case of the DNA tests of the
supposed remains of Adolf Hitler. According to CBS journalist Paul
Manning, during his research for his book Martin Bormann: Nazi in
Exile, he found that Martin Bormann had in 1967 cashed a check at
Manufacturers Hanover and Chase Manhattan Bank that was cleared
through Deutsche Bank in Buenos Aires in Argentina, and had been
cashed over his own signature. Whatever may be true, Bormann was
tried in absentia by the International Military Tribunal in the
Nuremberg trials of 1945 and 1946. He was convicted of war crimes
and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging.
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Filmed Record: Montgomery To Memphis DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1963: The American Civil Rights
Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: The Birmingham
Campaign (The Birmingham Movement, The Birmingham Confrontation):
The Children's Crusade (1963) (The Children's March): -- 2,543
African American and white civil rights demonstrators protesting
segregation are arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama at the
beginning of The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, a march
by over 5,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2-10,
1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of
the march was to walk downtown to talk to Birmingham's mayor
Albert Boutwell about segregation in their city. Many children
left their schools and were arrested, set free, and then arrested
again the next day. The marches were stopped by the head of
police, Bull Connor, who brought fire hoses to ward off the
children and set police dogs after the children. This event
compelled President John F. Kennedy to publicly support federal
civil rights legislation and eventually led to the passage of the
Civil Rights Act Of 1964. Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
were both opposed to the event because they thought it would
expose the children to violence.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Documentaries Set DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1986: Nuclear And Radioactive
Disasters: Nuclear Disasters In The Soviet Union: Nuclear
Disasters In The Ukraine: Nuclear Disasters In Belarus: The
Chernobyl Disaster: -- A full six days after the Chernobyl
Disaster, the City of Chernobyl is at last evacuated. On April 29,
1986, American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of
the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant, making it impossible
for the USSR to continue to deny that the radiation detected at
the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden originated from the
damaged Chernobyl reactor. The Chernobyl Disaster, also referred
to as the Chernobyl Accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident
that occurred between April 25-26, 1986 in the No. 4 light water
graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
near the now-abandoned town of Pripyat, in northern Ukrainian
Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, approximately 104 km (65
mi) north of Kiev. The event occurred during a late-night safety
test which simulated a station blackout power failure, in the
course of which safety systems were intentionally turned off. A
combination of inherent reactor design flaws and the reactor
operators arranging the core in a manner contrary to the checklist
for the test, eventually resulted in uncontrolled reaction
conditions. Water flashed into steam, generating a destructive
steam explosion and a subsequent open-air graphite fire. This fire
produced considerable updrafts for about nine days. These lofted
plumes of fission products into the atmosphere. The estimated
radioactive inventory that was released during this very hot fire
phase approximately equaled in magnitude the airborne fission
products released in the initial destructive explosion. This
radioactive material precipitated onto parts of the western USSR
and Europe. During the accident, steam-blast effects caused two
deaths within the facility; one immediately after the explosion,
and the other, compounded by a lethal dose of radiation. Over the
coming days and weeks, 134 servicemen were hospitalized with acute
radiation symptoms, of which 28 firemen and employees died in the
days-to-months afterward from the effects of acute radiation
syndrome (ARS). In addition, approximately fourteen radiation
induced cancer deaths among this group of 134 hospitalized
survivors were to follow within the next ten years. Among the
wider population, an excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths
were documented as of 2011. It will take further time and
investigation to definitively determine the elevated relative risk
of cancer among the surviving employees, those that were initially
hospitalized with ARS and the population at large. The Chernobyl
Accident is considered the most disastrous nuclear power plant
accident in history, both in terms of cost and casualties. It is
one of only two nuclear energy accidents classified as a level 7
event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear
Event Scale, the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
disaster in Japan in 2011. The struggle to safeguard against
scenarios which were perceived as having the potential for greater
catastrophe, together with later decontamination efforts of the
surroundings, ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an
estimated 18 billion rubles. The remains of the No. 4 reactor
building were enclosed in a large cover which was named The Object
Shelter, often known as The Sarcophagus. The purpose of the
structure was to reduce the spread of the remaining radioactive
dust and debris from the wreckage and the protection of the
wreckage from further weathering. The sarcophagus was finished in
December 1986 at a time when what was left of the reactor was
entering the cold shut-down phase. The enclosure was not intended
as a radiation shield, but was built quickly as occupational
safety for the crews of the other undamaged reactors at the power
station, with No.3 continuing to produce electricity up into 2000.
The accident motivated safety upgrades on all remaining
Soviet-designed reactors in the RBMK (Chernobyl No. 4) family, of
which eleven continued to power electric grids as of 2013.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Joseph
McCarthy Documentaries DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1957: #DOTD: Joseph McCarthy,
American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician who served as U.S.
Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death,
becoming in 1950 the most visible public face of a period in the
United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of
widespread Communist subversion (b. November 14, 1908) #dies at
Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland at the age of 48.
His death certificate listed the cause of death as "Hepatitis,
acute, cause unknown". Doctors had not previously reported
him to be in critical condition. Some biographers say this was
caused or exacerbated by alcoholism. He is buried at Saint Mary's
Cemetery in Appleton, Wisconsin. Joseph McCarthy was born Joseph
Raymond McCarthy in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. McCarthy is known for
alleging that numerous Communists and Soviet spies and
sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government,
universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear
tactics he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate. The
term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to
McCarthy' practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist
activities. Today, the term is used in reference to what are
considered demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations,
as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of
political opponents. McCarthy was commissioned into the Marine
Corps in 1942, where he served as an intelligence briefing officer
for a dive bomber squadron. Following the end of World War II, he
attained the rank of major. He volunteered to fly twelve combat
missions as a gunner-observer, acquiring the nickname "Tail-Gunner
Joe". Some of his claims of heroism were later shown to be
exaggerated or falsified, leading many of his critics to use
"Tail-Gunner Joe" as a term of mockery. McCarthy
successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1946, defeating Robert M.
La Follette Jr. After three largely undistinguished years in the
Senate, McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950
when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members
of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were
employed in the State Department. In succeeding years after his
1950 speech, McCarthy made additional accusations of Communist
infiltration into the State Department, the administration of
President Harry S. Truman, the Voice Of America, and the U.S.
Army. He also used various charges of communism, communist
sympathies, disloyalty, or sex crimes to attack a number of
politicians and other individuals inside and outside of
government. This included a concurrent "Lavender Scare"
against suspected homosexuals (as homosexuality was prohibited by
law at the time, it was also perceived to increase a person' risk
for blackmail). With the highly publicized Army-McCarthy hearings
of 1954, and following the suicide of Wyoming Senator and McCarthy
enemy Lester C. Hunt that same year, McCarthy' support and
popularity faded. On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure
Senator McCarthy by a vote of 67-22, making him one of the few
senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: J.
Edgar Hoover Biography DVD MP4 Video Download USB Flash Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1972: #DOTD: J. Edgar Hoover,
American detective, law enforcement official and first Director of
the F.B.I., the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. January 1,
1895) #dies of a heart attack in his Washington, D.C. home, aged
77. He is buried in The Congressional Cemetery, officially
Washington Parish Burial Ground, located at 1801 E Street, SE, in
Washington, DC. Operational command of the Bureau was passed onto
Associate Director Clyde Tolson. The following day, Nixon
appointed L. Patrick Gray - a Justice Department official with no
FBI experience - as Acting Director of the FBI, with W. Mark Felt
becoming associate director, the man who in 2005 revealed himself
to Vanity Fair magazine to have been the notorious anonymous
source known as "Deep Throat", who provided The
Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with
critical information about the Watergate scandal, which ultimately
led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
Hoover's body lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol,
where Chief Justice Warren Burger eulogized him. Up to that time,
Hoover was the only civil servant to have lain in state, according
to The New York Daily News. At the time, The New York Times
observed that this was "an honor accorded to only 21 persons
before, of whom eight were Presidents or former Presidents."
J. Edgar Hoover was born John Edgar Hoover on New Year's Day 1895
in Washington, D.C.. J. Edgar Hoover was instrumental in founding
the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in
1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the
FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its
inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to
police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and
forensic laboratories. Later in life and after his death, Hoover
became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses
of power began to surface. He was found to have exceeded the
jurisdiction of the FBI, and to have used the FBI to harass
political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on
political leaders, and to collect evidence using illegal methods.
Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a
position to intimidate and threaten sitting presidents. One of his
biographers, Kenneth Ackerman, writes that the allegation that
Hoover's secret files kept presidents from firing him is a myth.
However, Richard Nixon was recorded in 1971 stating that one of
the reasons he did not fire Hoover was that he was afraid of
reprisals against him from Hoover. President Harry S. Truman said
that Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police
force: "... we want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is
tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals
and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to
take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.".
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: To
Paint The Stars The Life & Mind Of Vincent van Gogh DVD
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Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Efrem Zimbalist
Jr., American soldier and actor best known for his starring roles
in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. (b.
November 30, 1918) #dies from natural causes in Solvang,
California at the age of 95. He is buried at Town Hill Cemetery in
New Hartford, Connecticut. He was born in New York City to Jewish
immigrants Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (1889-1985), a famous Russian-born
violinist, and Alma Gluck (1884-1938), an equally famous
Romanian-born operatic soprano. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is also known
as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series
Maverick and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth
in Batman: The Animated Series and associated spin-offs. He also
voiced Doctor Octopus in the 1990s Spider-Man animated series and
the 2000 PC, Dreamcast and PlayStation Spider-Man action-adventure
video game, and Justin Hammer from the second season of the 1994
Iron Man animated series. Zimbalist was drafted in 1941. Inducted
into the United States Army, he completed his initial training at
Fort Dix, New Jersey. Selected for officer candidate school, after
graduation in 1943 he received his commission as a second
lieutenant of Infantry. Zimbalist was assigned as a platoon leader
in Company L, 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division and
participated in combat in Europe following the Normandy landings.
He was discharged at the end of the war, and his awards and
decorations included the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Infantryman
Badge, in addition to the Purple Heart he received for a shrapnel
wound to his leg during the battle of Huertgen Forest. Zimbalist
was most widely known for his starring role as Inspector Lewis
Erskine in the Quinn Martin television production The F.B.I.,
which premiered on September 19, 1965 and aired its final episode
on September 8, 1974. Zimbalist was generous in his praise of
producer Martin and of his own experience starring in the show.
Those who worked with him were equally admiring of the star's
professionalism and likable personality. Zimbalist maintained a
strong personal relationship with F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover,
who requested that the show be technically accurate and portray
his agents in the best possible light, and he insisted actors
playing F.B.I. employees undergo a background check. Zimbalist
subsequently spent a week in contact with Hoover in Washington,
D.C. and at the F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The men
remained mutual admirers for the rest of Hoover's life. Hoover
held up Zimbalist as a model for F.B.I. employees' personal
appearance. The Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation honored the character of Lewis Erskine in
1985 with a set of retired credentials, and on June 8, 2009 FBI
Director Robert Mueller presented Zimbalist with a plaque honoring
him for his work on the series.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Pinky
Lee Classic TV Kid Shows Collection DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1907: #BOTD: #HBD! Pinky Lee,
American comedian and television host (d. May 2, 1993) is #born
Pincus Leff in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Pinky Lee was an American
burlesque comic and host of the children's television program The
Pinky Lee Show in the early 1950s. Lee worked as a comic of the
"baggy pants" variety on stage, becoming an expert at
the slapstick, comic dancing and rapid-fire jokes of the burlesque
style. During the 1940s, he was heard on Drene Time and other
radio programs. Easily recognized by his trademark lisp and
high-energy antics, his signature costume was a loud plaid suit
with baggy checkered pants and an undersized hat. During his
routines, whenever anybody irritated him (which happened
frequently) he would unleash his catchphrase: "Oooooh! You
make me so mad!". In 1950, he had his own 30-minute primetime
variety television series on NBC, The Pinky Lee Show, featuring
vaudevillians and burlesque comics. In 1951-52 he starred with
Vivian Blaine in a 15-minute sitcom, Those Two. He returned in
1954 with The Pinky Lee Show, sponsored by Tootsie Roll. An
Emmy-nominated afternoon children's program that spawned later
imitators such as Pee-Wee's Playhouse, it was followed each day by
the popular Howdy Doody Show. Lee opened each show with his
trademark theme song, "Yoo Hoo, It's Me!". In 1955, Lee
collapsed on camera due to an infection. His normal antics were so
energetic that apparently the cameraman and the show's director
assumed the fall an ad lib part of his performance. The "Peanut
Gallery", an audience usually composed almost entirely of
pre-adolescent children who were coached by a staff member,
continued their enthusiastic cheering and applause from the
on-stage bleachers. After as much as ten seconds of writhing by
the stricken Lee, the camera abruptly panned to the still-cheering
audience. The following afternoons Pinky Lee was not present. This
effectively ended his leading role on the show, which continued
without him until 1956. Rumors that he had died of a heart attack,
prompted by the incident, persisted for decades. Occasionally,
newspaper items mentioned the "late" Lee-even though he
was performing at a dinner theater in the same city as one of the
reporting newspapers. The incident also spawned rumors that Lee
had been institutionalized after going insane on live television.
In 1957, Lee hosted The Gumby Show, the original appearance of
that claymation character. In 1964, Lee attempted a return to
kids' TV, hosting a local children's comedy program on KABC-TV in
Los Angeles. This series was nationally syndicated for the 1964-65
TV seasons, but the program fell prey to creative interference
from the show's producers and station management. Lee fought the
interference, but his efforts were for naught. The Pinky Lee Kids
TV Show went off the air after one season. In later years, Lee
worked as a teacher and appeared in regional musical theater
productions. He died in 1993 in Mission Viejo, California. He is
buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles,
California.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Bed
Sitting Room 1969 Richard Lester Rita Tushingham DVD, MP4, USB
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1995: #DOTD: #RIP: Michael
Hordern, English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly
60 years (b. October 3, 1911) #dies of kidney disease at the
Churchill Hospital, Oxford, England at the age of 83. He is buried
at St. James Churchyard in Winterbourne, West Berkshire Unitary
Authority, Berkshire, England. Sir Michael Murray Hordern, CBE is
best known for his Shakespearean roles, especially that of King
Lear, which he played to much acclaim on stage in
Stratford-upon-Avon in 1969 and London in 1970. He then
successfully assumed the role on television five years later. He
often appeared in film, rising from a bit part actor in the late
1930s to a member of the main cast; by the time of his death he
had appeared in nearly 140 cinema roles. His later work was
predominantly in television and radio. Born in Berkhamsted,
Hertfordshire, into a family with no theatrical connections,
Hordern was educated at Windlesham House School where he became
interested in drama. He went on to Brighton College where his
interest in the theatre developed. After leaving the college he
joined an amateur dramatics company, and came to the notice of
several influential Shakespearean directors who cast him in minor
roles in Othello and Macbeth. During the Second World War he
served on HMS Illustrious where he reached the rank of lieutenant
commander. Upon his demobilisation he resumed his acting career
and made his television debut, becoming a reliable bit-part actor
in many films, particularly in the war film genre. Hordern came to
prominence in the early 1950s when he took part in a theatrical
competition at the Arts Theatre in London. There, he impressed
Glen Byam Shaw who secured the actor a season-long contract at the
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre where he played major parts,
including Caliban in The Tempest, Jaques in As You Like It, and
Sir Politick Would-Be in Ben Jonson's comedy Volpone. The
following season Hordern joined Michael Benthall's company at the
Old Vic where, among other parts, he played Polonius in Hamlet,
and the title role in King John. In 1957 he won a best actor award
at that year's British Academy Television Awards for his role as
the barrister in John Mortimer's courtroom drama The Dock Brief.
He appeared as Scathelock in the Walt Disney's Disneyland
television presentation The Story Of Robin Hood (1956). Along with
his theatrical responsibilities Hordern had regular supporting
roles in various films including Cleopatra (1963), and A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). Other movies
Hordern appeared in include The Bed Sitting Room (1969) and Sink
The Bismarck! (1960). In the late 1960s Hordern met the British
theatre director Jonathan Miller, who cast him in Whistle and I'll
Come to You, which was recorded for television and received wide
praise. Hordern's next major play was Jumpers which appeared at
the Royal National Theatre at the start of 1972. His performance
was praised by critics and he reprised the role four years later.
His television commitments increased towards the end of his life.
His credits include Paradise Postponed, the BAFTA award-winning
Memento Mori, and the BBC adaptation of Middlemarch. He was
appointed a CBE in 1972 and was knighted eleven years later.
Hordern suffered from kidney disease during the 1990s and died
from it in 1995 at the age of 83.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Jack Of Diamonds 1949 Nigel Patrick Cyril Raymond DVD, MP4, USB
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1912: #BOTD: #HBD! Nigel Patrick,
English actor and director of stage and screen (d. September 21,
1981) is #born Nigel Dennis Patrick Wemyss-Gorman at 40b Aristotle
Road in Clapham, London, England into a theatrical family, the son
of Thomas Joseph Charles Aubrey Wemyss Gorman (born 1875 - died
19??) and actress Dorothy Hilda Turner (1890-1969). During the
late 1940s and 1950s, he became known as a debonair leading man in
British films, though he could also portray rogues. He featured in
The Sound Barrier (aka, Breaking Through the Sound Barrier, 1952),
under the direction of David Lean, and was the star of The Jack of
Diamonds (1949), which he also co-wrote with co-star Cyril
Raymond. Nigel Patrick died of lung cancer in London, England,
aged 69. His burial details are unknown.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Art
Documentaries And Films DVD MP4 Video Download USB Flash Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: Oliver Reed,
English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and
"hellraiser" lifestyle (b. February 13, 1938) #dies from
a heart attack during a break from filming Gladiator in Valletta,
Malta, on the afternoon of May 2, 1999, aged 61. According to
witnesses, he drank eight pints of German lager, a dozen shots of
rum, half a bottle of whisky, and a few shots of Hennessy cognac,
in a drinking match against a group of sailors on shore leave from
HMS Cumberland at a local pub. His bar bill totalled a little over
270 LM (almost 450 Pounds Sterling; about 590 USD). After beating
five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling, Reed
suddenly collapsed, dying while en route to hospital in an
ambulance. A funeral for Reed was held in Churchtown, County Cork,
in Ireland where he had resided during the last years of his life.
His body is interred in Churchtown's Bruhenny Graveyard. The
epitaph on his gravestone reads, "He made the air move."
Oliver Reed was born Robert Oliver Reed at 9 Durrington Park Road,
Wimbledon, southwest London, England. After making his first
significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early
1960s, his notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill
Sikes in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (a film
directed by his uncle Carol Reed), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal
Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), Revolver (1973), portraying
Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers
(1974); the lover and stepfather in Tommy (1975), The Brood
(1979), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures
of Baron Munchausen (1988), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator
(2000). For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator
trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in what was his final film,
Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor
in a Supporting Role in 2000. At the peak of his career, in 1971,
British exhibitors voted Reed fifth most popular star at the box
office. The British Film Institute (BFI) stated that "partnerships
with Michael Winner and Ken Russell in the mid-60s saw Reed become
an emblematic Brit-flick icon", but from the mid-1970s his
alcoholism began affecting his career, with the BFI adding "Reed
had assumed Robert Newton's mantle as Britain's thirstiest
thespian".
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC
Radio Airchecks MP3 Collection 1960s-1980s DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Engelbert
Humperdinck, English pop singer, balladeer and pianist (not to be
confused with composer Engelbert Humperdinck September 1, 1854 -
September 27, 1921) is #born Arnold George Dorsey in Madras,
British Raj (now Chennai, India), one of 10 children born to
British Army NCO Mervyn Dorsey, who was of Welsh descent, and his
wife Olive who, according to the singer, was of German descent;
various sources also say that he has Anglo-Indian heritage. His
family moved to Leicester, England, when he was ten years old. He
achieved international prominence in 1967 with his recording of
"Release Me". Starting as a performer in the late 1950s
under the name "Gerry Dorsey", he later adopted the name
of German composer Engelbert Humperdinck as a stage name and found
success after he partnered with manager Gordon Mills in 1965. His
recordings of the ballads "Release Me" and "The
Last Waltz" both topped the UK Singles Chart in 1967, selling
more than a million copies each. Humperdinck scored further major
hits in rapid succession, including "There Goes My
Everything" (1967), "Am I That Easy to Forget"
(1968) and "A Man Without Love" (1968). In the process,
he attained a large following, with some of his most devoted fans
calling themselves "Humperdinckers". Two of his singles
were among the best-selling of the 1960s in the United Kingdom.
During the 1970s, Humperdinck had significant North American chart
successes with "After the Lovin'" (1976) and "This
Moment in Time" (1979). Having garnered a reputation as a
prolific concert performer, he received renewed attention during
the 1990s lounge revival with his recordings of "Lesbian
Seagull" for the soundtrack of Beavis and Butt-Head Do
America (1996), and a dance album (1998). The new millennium
brought a range of musical projects for the singer, including the
Grammy-nominated gospel album Always Hear the Harmony: The Gospel
Sessions (2003) and a double album of duets, Engelbert Calling
(2014). In 2012, Humperdinck represented the UK at the Eurovision
Song Contest in Baku with the song "Love Will Set You Free",
and placed 25th out of 26. After marking more than 50 years as a
successful singer, Humperdinck continues to record and tour,
having sold more than 140 million records worldwide.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Falklands War: The Untold Story TV Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1982: The British Empire: The
Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas): The Falkland Islands
Sovereignty Dispute: The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra De Las
Malvinas): Naval Warfare Of The Falklands War: The Sinking Of The
ARA General Belgrano: -- The British nuclear submarine HMS
Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano,
becoming the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an
enemy ship with torpedoes. HMS Conqueror was a British
Churchill-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine which served in
the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990. She was the third submarine of
her class, following the earlier Churchill and Courageous, that
were all designed to face the Soviet threat at sea. She was built
by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. Commanded by Commander Chris
Wreford-Brown, Conqueror set sail from Faslane Naval Base on the
Gareloch in Scotland on April 3, 1982, one day after the Argentine
invasion. Conqueror arrived in the exclusion zone around the
Falkland Islands 21 days later and was ordered to scan the area
for Argentine shipping, particularly the aircraft carrier
Veinticinco de Mayo ("25th of May"). On April 30, she
spotted the Argentine light cruiser General Belgrano sailing
southwest of the Falklands, just outside the exclusion zone
imposed by the British on all shipping. With Veinticinco de Mayo
approaching the islands from the north, the commander of the
British Taskforce, Admiral 'Sandy' Woodward, feared a pincer
attack, with General Belgrano attacking from the south and
Veinticinco de Mayo from the north and requested permission from
the British government to sink General Belgrano. After some
debate, permission to engage General Belgrano was sent to the
submarine from the Royal Navy's fleet command centre in Northwood
in the United Kingdom. In the intervening period, General Belgrano
had retired from its attack position and turned west, since
Veinticinco de Mayo was not yet ready to engage the British fleet.
This would cause some controversy, although General Belgrano's
captain and the Argentine government acknowledged that the attack
was a legitimate act of war. On May 2, Conqueror became the first
nuclear-powered submarine to fire in anger, launching three Mark 8
torpedoes at General Belgrano, two of which struck the ship and
exploded. Twenty minutes later, the ship was sinking rapidly and
was abandoned by her crew. General Belgrano was unable to issue a
Mayday signal because of electrical failure; this and poor
visibility meant the two escorting destroyers ARA Piedra Buena and
ARA Bouchard (both also ex-United States Navy vessels) were
unaware of the sinking until some hours later. A total of 323 men
were killed. Adding to the confusion, the crew of Bouchard felt an
impact that was possibly the third torpedo striking at the end of
its run (an examination of the ship later showed an impact mark
consistent with a torpedo). The two ships continued on their
course westward and began dropping depth charges. By the time the
ships realised that something had happened to General Belgrano, it
was already dark and the weather had worsened, scattering the life
rafts. Conqueror's war did not end there. The crew of the
submarine had to face Argentine Air Force attempts to locate her
in the days after the attack, which had shocked the Argentine
people and ruling dictatorship. Conqueror did not fire again in
anger throughout the war, but helped the task force by using
sophisticated monitoring equipment to track Argentine aircraft
departing from the mainland. After the war, Conqueror returned to
Faslane, flying a Jolly Roger adorned with torpedoes, a customary
act of Royal Navy submarines after a kill. When asked about the
incident later, Commander Wreford-Brown responded, "The Royal
Navy spent thirteen years preparing me for such an occasion. It
would have been regarded as extremely dreary if I had fouled it
up".
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Women's
Rights, Women's Suffrage & The Women's Movement DVD MP4 USB
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1964: #BOTD: Nancy Astor,
Viscountess Astor (Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor), Viscountess
Astor, CH (Order of the Companions of Honour), American-born
British politician who moved to England at age 26, married Waldorf
Astor and elected the first female in the British House Of
Commons, noted anti-communist, anti-catholic and antisemite who
admired Adolf Hitler (b. May 19, 1879) #dies at her daughter Nancy
Astor's home at Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire, aged 84. She
was cremated and her ashes interred at the Octagon Temple at the
Cliveden country house and estate, Buckinghamshire, South East
England. She was born Nancy Witcher Langhorne at the Langhorne
House in Danville, Virginia. When her husband Waldorf Astor
succeeded to the peerage and entered the House of Lords; she then
entered politics and won his former seat in Plymouth in 1919; Sinn
Fein's Countess Constance Markievicz had become the first elected
female MP in 1918, but she refused to take her seat, in line with
Sinn Fein policy. Her first husband was American Robert Gould Shaw
II (first cousin of American Civil War Union hero Robert Gould
Shaw, who led the first all-black regiment (54th Massachusetts) in
US history), and they divorced. She served in Parliament as a
member of the Conservative Party for Plymouth Sutton until 1945,
when she was persuaded to step down. A widely circulated story,
probably apocryphal (the joke dates from 1899) but printed in the
New York Times in 1949, states "Winston Spencer Churchill has
been the subject of many a piquant anecdote based on his
personality, robust wit and felicity of phrase. The story is being
told of his encounter with a politically minded lady who, after
failing to shake him in an argument, broke off with the petulant
remark, "Oh, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your
tea." "Madame," Winston responded, "if I were,
I'd drink it with pleasure." According to
QuoteInvestigator.com, "It is conceivable that Churchill
employed this line, but he would have been knowingly or
unknowingly re-enacting a joke that had been circulating for many
years."
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Legacy
Of The Hollywood Blacklist DVD MP4 Download USB Flash Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 1885: #BOTD: Hedda Hopper,
American gossip columnist, journalist, actress and red-baiter (d.
February 1, 1966) is #born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg,
Pennsylvania. At the height of her influence in the 1940s, her
readership was 35 million. A strong supporter of the House
Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings, Hopper named
suspected communists and was a major proponent of the Hollywood
blacklist. Hopper continued to write gossip until the end of her
life, her work appearing in many magazines and later on radio. She
had an extended feud with another gossip columnist, arch-rival
Louella Parsons. Hedda Hopper died of double pneumonia at the age
of 80 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She is buried
at Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona, Pennsylvania.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Bolshoi Ballet 2 Part TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP: Maya
Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer, choreographer,
ballet director, actress and beauty who in post-Soviet times, she
held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship (b. November 20,
1925) #dies in Munich, Germany of a heart attack.According to her
last will and testament, she was to be cremated, and after the
death of her widower, Soviet and Russian composer and pianist
Rodion Shchedrin (b. December 16, 1932), who is also to be
cremated, their ashes are to be combined and spread over Russia.
Maya Plisetskaya was born Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya in Moscow,
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She danced during the Soviet era at
the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky,
then of Yury Grigorovich; later she moved into direct
confrontation with him. In 1960, when famed Russian ballerina
Galina Ulanova retired, Plisetskaya became prima ballerina
assoluta of the company. Her early years were marked by political
repression and loss. Her father, Mikhail Plisetski, a Soviet
official, was arrested in 1937 and executed in 1938, during the
Great Purge. Her mother, actress Rachel Messerer, was arrested in
1938 and imprisoned for a few years, then held in a concentration
camp together with her infant son, Azari . The older children were
faced with the threat of being put in an orphanage but were cared
for by maternal relatives. Maya was adopted by their aunt Sulamith
Messerer, and Alexander was taken into the family of their uncle
Asaf Messerer; both Alexander and Azary eventually became solo
dancers of the Bolshoi. Plisetskaya studied ballet at The Bolshoi
Ballet School from age nine, and she first performed at the
Bolshoi Theatre when she was eleven. She studied ballet under the
direction of Elizaveta Gerdt and also her aunt, Sulamith Messerer.
Graduating in 1943 at the age of eighteen, she joined the Bolshoi
Ballet company, quickly rising to become their leading soloist. In
1959, during the Thaw Time, she started to tour outside the
country with the Bolshoi, then on her own. Her fame as a national
ballerina was used to project the Soviet Union's achievements
during the Cold War. Premier Nikita Khrushchev considered her to
be "not only the best ballerina in the Soviet Union, but the
best in the world". As an artist, Plisetskaya had an
inexhaustible interest in new roles and dance styles, and she
liked to experiment on stage. As a member of the Bolshoi until
1990, she had international exposure and her skills as a dancer
changed the world of ballet. She set a higher standard for
ballerinas, both in terms of technical brilliance and dramatic
presence. As a soloist, Plisetskaya created a number of leading
roles, including Juliet in Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet; Phrygia
in Yakobson's Spartacus (1958); in Grigorovich's ballets :
Mistress of the Copper Mountain in The Stone Flower (1959); Aurora
in The Sleeping Beauty (1963); Mahmene Banu in The Legend of Love
(1965); Alberto Alonso's Carmen Suite (1967), choreographed
especially for her; and Maurice Bejart's Isadora (1976). Among her
most acclaimed roles were Kitri in Don Quixote, Odette-Odile in
Swan Lake, and The Dying Swan, first danced as a pre-graduate
student under the guidance of Sulamith Messerer. A fellow dancer
said that her dramatic portrayal of Carmen, reportedly her
favorite role, "helped confirm her as a legend, and the
ballet soon took its place as a landmark in the Bolshoi
repertoire". Her husband, composer Rodion Shchedrin, wrote
the scores to a number of her ballets. Having become "an
international superstar" and a continuous "box office
hit throughout the world", Plisetskaya was treated by the
Soviet Union as a favored cultural emissary. Although she toured
extensively during the same years that other prominent dancers
defected, including Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Plisetskaya always refused to defect. In 1991, she
published her autobiography, I, Maya Plisetskaya.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Hollywood Palace: Petula Clark w/ Lynn Redgrave DVD, MP4, USB
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Today, May 2, 2026May 2, 2010: #DOTD: #RIP: Lynn Redgrave,
English-American actress and singer (b. March 8, 1943) #dies of
breast cancer at the age of 67 in Kent, Connecticut, U.S..
Redgrave's funeral was held on May 8, 2010 at the First
Congregational Church in Kent, and was interred in St Peter's
Episcopal Cemetery in the hamlet of Lithgow, New York, where her
mother Rachel Kempson and her niece Natasha Richardson are also
interred. Lynn Redgrave was born Lynn Rachel Redgrave in
Marylebone, London, Englad to actors Sir Michael Redgrave and
Rachel Kempson, members of the Redgrave family of actors and
actresses; her sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave; her brother was
actor and political activist Corin Redgrave. She was the aunt of
writer/director Carlo Gabriel Nero and of actresses Joely
Richardson, Jemma Redgrave and Natasha Richardson, and the
sister-in-law of director Tony Richardson, actress Kika Markham
and Italian actor Franco Nero. Her grandfather was silent screen
leading man Roy Redgrave. Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE won 2 Golden
Globe Awards, was a two-time Oscar nominee and received Emmy and
Tony nominations. She made her Broadway debut in 1967, and
performed in several stage productions in New York while making
frequent returns to London's West End. She performed with her
sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London, and in the title role
of Baby Jane Hudson in a television production of What Ever
Happened to Baby Jane? in 1991. She made a return to films in the
late 1990s in films such as Shine (1996) and Gods and Monsters
(1998) for which she received her second Academy Award nomination
and won a Golden Globe Award For Best Supporting Actress. Lynn
Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the
EGOT "Big Four" American entertainment awards (Emmy,
Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) without winning any of them.
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