Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 2

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 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth (pictured) its first royal charter.
 * 1670 – A royal charter granted the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly in the fur trade in Rupert's Land (present-day Canada).
 * 1878 – A dust explosion at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths.
 * 1945 – World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, the German commander of Berlin, surrendered to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin.
 * 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been deliberately sunk by a nuclear submarine in battle.
 * 1995 – Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began rocket attacks on the Croatian capital Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring around 200 others.
 * 2008 – The Chaitén volcano in Chile began to erupt for the first time since around 1640.
 * 2003 – Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people homeless.
 * 2011 – Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six in his private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
 * 2011 – The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the federal election to establish their first majority government.
 * 2014 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrainian unity protesters in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa.
 * Born/died: | Blanche of Artois |d|1302| Stjepan Gradić |d|1683| Catherine Labouré |b|1806| Theodor Herzl |b|1860|   Ichiyō Higuchi |b|1872| Isabel González |b|1882| Homer Davenport  |d|1912| B. B. Lal |b|1921|  Ernest Joyce|d|1940| Dorothea Binz |d|1947| Dwayne Johnson |b|1972