Today in History: The Foundation of the First High School in Anatolia was laid with a ceremony

May 2 is the 122st day of the year (123nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 243.

Railways

• 2 May 1900 ordered the construction of Abdulhamid II's Hejaz Railway construction. Sultan Abdulhamid; He gave orders by saying, “For the construction of Hatt-ı Mezkur, which is based on the help of Allah Almighty and the help of our Messenger of Allah (saas).” Commission-Ali was established to carry out all the transactions related to Hicaz Railway. The commission headed by the Sultan consisted of the Minister of the Navy Hasan Hüsnü Pasha, the Minister of the Nafia, Zihni Pasha, the ex-Minister of Finance Tevfik Pasha, Izzet Pasha and the Chief of the Navy Manufacturing Commission Husnu Pasha and Serkatip Tahsin Pasha. Later, Grand Vizier Mehmet Ferit Pasha joined the commission.
• 2 May 1933 Niğde-Boğazköprü railway line was inaugurated / Niğde-Boğaz¬köprü line was opened. Contractor Jülius Berger Consortium
• 2 May 1943 Zonguldak-Kozlu line is in operation.

Events

• 1670 - King of England II. Charles granted Hudson's Bay Company contractual privileges, agreeing to trade with Indians along all the currents flowing into the Hudson Bay. The Furrier Community sees this as the oldest "Institution" in the world.
• 1807 – Viktualienmarkt (Market for foodstuffs in Munich) is founded in Munich.
• 1808 - Dos de Mayo Uprising: The people of Madrid start an uprising against the French army that has occupied their city.
• 1843 - The first German immigrants arrive at Puerto Hambre port in Chile. They specifically settled around Lake Llanquihue.
• 1885 – The foundation of Kastamonu Abdurrahmanpaşa High School, the first high school (high school) of Anatolia, was laid with a ceremony.
• 1896 – From now on, regular metro services are started in Budapest, compatible with the European landmass.
• 1920 – The Ministry of Education (Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey) was established. (After the opening of the Turkish Grand National Assembly on April 23, 1920, the "Ministry of Education" was organized as one of the eleven Deputies of the Executive Board (Council of Ministers) with the government's law dated 2 May 1920 and numbered 3.)
• 1924 – Norddeutscher Rundfunk AG (NORAG), later known as NDR, begins broadcasting.
• 1926 – The first fax message was sent between the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1938 – The Army Cavalry Team wins the golden Mussolini Cup at the Nations Cup races in Rome.
• 1945 – German occupation troops in Italy; The Allied armies, while the German forces in Berlin began to surrender to Soviet Marshal Zhukov's troops.
• 1953 – International Theater Institute, Turkey Center was chosen as the founders.
• 1982 – Uğur Mumcu's assessment of the 12 September Military Administration: “The administration is really sensitive about these issues. He does not hesitate to prosecute a former minister under his administration, as he immediately sent the corruption files regarding the ministers to the commissions in the past. It is our sincere hope that this understanding will be adopted by future administrations as well.”
• 1998 – The European Central Bank was established in Brussels to manage the monetary policies of the European Union.
• 1999 – Merve Kavakçı from the Virtue Party attended the swearing-in ceremony of the Deputy wearing a headscarf. The incident was met with protests in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 2011 – Osama bin Laden was killed when the United States Armed Forces opened fire in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Births

• 1360 – Yonglo, third emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (d. 1424)
• 1458 – Eleonore of Portugal, Queen and King of Portugal II. João's wife (d. 1525)
• 1551 – William Camden, English historian and antiquary (d. 1623)
• 1567 – Sebald de Weert, Dutch vice-admiral and explorer (d. 1603)
• 1579 – Tokugawa Hidetada, 2nd shogun of the Tokugawa Dynasty (d. 1632)
• 1601 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit priest and scriptwriter (d. 1680)
• 1660 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian Baroque composer of western classical music (d. 1725)
• 1695 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect (d. 1766)
• 1702 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)
• 1707 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, French cellist and composer (d. 1747)
• 1729 – Catherine, Russian Tsarina (d.1796)
• 1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805)
• 1754 – Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806)
• 1761 – Richard Anthony Salisbury, English botanist (d. 1829)
• 1772 – Novalis, German writer and philosopher (d. 1801)
• 1773 Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
• 1797 – Abraham Gesner, Canadian physician, physicist, and geoscientist (d. 1864)
• 1802 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
• 1810 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
• 1828 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915)
• 1860 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist, playwright, political activist, and author (d. 1904)
• 1873 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1944)
• 1886 – Gottfried Benn, German physician and poet (d. 1956)
• 1892 – Manfred von Richthofen (Red Baron), German pilot (d. 1918)
• 1901 – Edouard Zeckendorf, Belgian physician and mathematician (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Willi Bredel, German writer (d. 1964)
• 1902 – Brian Aherne, English actor (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Georg Kurlbaum, German politician (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Werner Finck, German writer, actor and cabaret performer (d. 1978)
• 1903 – Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and author (d. 1998)
• 1905 - Alan Rawsthorne, English composer (d. 1971)
• 1905 – Charlotte Armstrong, American author of detective novels (d. 1969)
• 1906 – Hans-Günther Sohl, director of the iron and steel industry in Nazi Germany (d. 1989)
• 1906 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American portrait photographer (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Wolfgang Abendroth, German lawyer and historian of social policy (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Franz Korinek, Austrian lawyer and politician (d. 1985)
• 1908 – Frank Rowlett, American mathematician and cryptologist (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Karl Hartung, German sculptor (d. 1967)
• 1909 – Teddy Stauffer, Swiss musician (d. 1991)
• 1910 – Edmund Bacon, American urban planner, architect, educator, and author (d. 2005)
• 1911 – Marie Therese Hug, Princess of the House of Hohenzollern (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Axel Springer, German publisher (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Karl Adam, German rowing coach (d. 1976)
• 1912 – Marten Toonder, Dutch cartoonist and comics writer (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Nigel Patrick, English actor (b. 1981)
• 1913 – Aydın Sayılı, Turkish scientist and academic (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Pietro Frua, Italian car designer (d. 1983)
• 1920 – Guinn Smith, American athlete (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Jacob Gilboa, Israeli composer (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor and violinist (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Joe Henderson (Mr. Piano), English pianist (d. 1980)
• 1921 – Satyajit Ray, Indian director (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Serge Reggiani, French actor and singer (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Albert Nordengen, Norwegian politician and Mayor of Oslo (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Fips Fleischer, German musician and composer (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Patrick Hillery, 6th President of Ireland (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Günter Wöhe, German economist (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Kurt E. Ludwig, German actor and voice actor (d. 1995)
• 1924 – Theodore Bikel, Austrian actor, singer, composer and activist (d. 2015)
• 1925 – John Neville, English stage, film and television actor (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Michael Broadbent, English wine critic and author (d. 2020)
• 1928 – Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, German-French writer, essayist, and translator
• 1928 – Horst Stein, German concert and opera conductor (d. 2008)
• 1928 – Rolf Heyne, German publisher (d. 2000)
• 1929 – Édouard Balladur, French politician and Prime Minister
• 1929 – Jigme Dorje Wangchuk, King of Bhutan (d. 1972)
• 1929 – Link Wray, American guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Öztürk Serengil, Turkish film actor and comedian (d. 1999)
• 1931 – Werner Titel, German politician (East Germany's first Minister of Environment and Water Management) (d. 1971)
• 1933 – Harry Woolf, English lawyer and Chief Justice of England and Wales
• 1934 – Manfred Durniok, German filmmaker and director (d. 2003)
• 1935 – II. Faisal, King of Iraq (d. 1958)
• 1935 – Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish football player and manager
• 1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, British Indian singer-songwriter
• 1936 – Helga Brauer, German singer (d. 1991)
• 1936 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (d. 1972)
• 1936 – Norma Aleandro, Argentine actress, screenwriter and theater director
• 1937 – Gisela Elsner, German writer (d. 1992)
• 1937 - Klaus Enders, German motorcycle racer
• 1937 – Thomas Billhardt, German photographer and journalist
• 1938 – II. Moshoeshoe, King of Lesotho (d. 1996)
• 1939 – Ernesto Càstano, Italian football player
• 1939 – Hans-Dieter Möller, German organist and music educator
• 1939 – Heinz Troll, German politician
• 1939 – Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
• 1940 – Jules Albert Wijdenbosch, Surinamese politician and 7th President of Suriname
• 1941 – Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (d. 2015)
• 1941 – Elvira Hoffmann, German writer, journalist, and essayist
• 1941 – Franco Scoglio, Italian football coach (d. 2005)
• 1942 – Bernd Ziskofen, German motorcycle racer (d. 1993)
• 1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian orthopedic surgeon and President of the International Olympic Committee
• 1942 – Ömür Göksel, Turkish pop music vocalist
• 1942 – Udo Ehrbar, German politician
• 1942 – Udo Steinke, German writer (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Wojciech Pszoniak, Polish film and theater actor
• 1943 – Klaus Konjetzky, German writer
• 1943 - Manfred Schnelldorfer, German ice skier and Olympic champion
• 1944 – Franz Innerhofer, Austrian writer (d. 2002)
• 1945 – Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-American actress and human rights activist
• 1945 – Judge Dread, English Reggae and Ska musician (d. 1998)
• 1946 – David Suchet, English actor
• 1946 – Lesley Gore, American pop-blues singer, actress, and women's rights activist (d. 2015)
• 1947 – James Dyson, English inventor, entrepreneur, and artist
• 1947 – Manfred Harder, German football referee
• 1947 – Philippe Herreweghe, Belgian conductor
• 1948 – Christian Hartenhauer, German politician
• 1948 - Larry Gatlin, American singer
• 1949 – Alfons Schuhbeck, German chef and cookbook writer
• 1950 – Angela Krauss, German writer
• 1950 Lou Gramm, American singer
• 1950 - Manfred Maurenbrecher, German singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Ulrich Goll, German politician
• 1952 - Christine Baranski, American stage, film and television actress
• 1953 – Valeri Gergiyev, Russian conductor and opera troupe manager
• 1955 - Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
• 1958 – David Anthony O'Leary, Irish manager and former football player
• 1961 – Stephen Daldry, English theater and film director
• 1968 – Jeff Agoos, an American football player and manager.
• 1972 – Dwayne Johnson, American actor, producer, and professional wrestler
• 1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German film director.
• 1975 – Ahmed Hasan, Egyptian football player
• 1975 – David Beckham, English football player
• 1975 – Joe Wilkinson is an English comedian, actor and writer.
• 1979 – Defne Joy Foster, Turkish cinematographer, actress, presenter and former DJ (d. 2011)
• 1979 – Yasemin Dalkılıç, Turkish world underwater diving record holder diver
• 1980 – Tim Borowski, German football player
• 1980 – Ellie Kemper, American actress and comedian
• 1980 - Zat Knight, English footballer
• 1981 - Chris Kirkland, former English football player
• 1981 – Tiago Mendes, Portuguese national football player
• 1983 – Alessandro Diamanti, Italian national football player
• 1983 – Maynor Figueroa, Honduran national football player
• 1983 – Tina Maze, Slovenian retired World Cup alpine skier
• 1983 – Maja Poljak, Croatian volleyball player
• 1984 – Thabo Sefolosha, Swiss basketball player
• 1985 – Lily Allen, English singer
• 1985 – Ashley Harkleroad, American professional female tennis player
• 1985 – Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
• 1987 – Saara Aalto, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Aziz Guliyev, Azerbaijani football player
• 1987 - Nana Kitade is a Japanese pop singer
• 1990 – Paul George, American basketball player
• 1990 - Kay Panabaker is an American actress.
• 1992 – Sunmi is a South Korean singer-dancer and songwriter.
• 1993 – Tao, Chinese singer, songwriter, rapper, producer and actor
• 1996 – Julian Brandt, German national football player
• 2015 - Charlotte Mountbatten-Windsor, Princess of the United Kingdom

Deaths

• 1203 BC – Merneptah, II. He is the fourth pharaoh of the 19th dynasty who ascended the throne after Ramses.
• 373 – Athanasios of Alexandria, bishop of Alexandria – Doctor of the Church (b. ca. 296-298)
• 907 – Boris I (Mihail), the first Christian Khan of the Danube Bulgarian State (b. ?)
• 1219 – Levon I the Magnificent, first Armenian King of Cilicia (b. 1150)
• 1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer (Rönesanswho started ) (b. 1452)
• 1799 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, German composer (b. 1741)
• 1857 – Alfred de Musset, French writer (b. 1810)
• 1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German opera composer (b. 1791)
• 1892 – Hermann Burmeister, German-Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, and botanist (b. 1807)
• 1919 – Gustav Landauer, German pacifist (b. 1870)
• 1921 – Alexandre Vallaury, French architect and Istanbul Levantine (b. 1850)
• 1942 – José Abad Santos, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1886)
• 1945 – Martin Bormann, German politician, Nazi Party sözcüand Hitler's private secretary (b. 1900)
• 1945 – Walther Hewel, German diplomat (b. 1904)
• 1945 – Wilhelm Burgdorf, infantry general in Nazi Germany (b. 1895)
• 1945 – Hans Krebs, Nazi Germany Infantry General and head of the OKH (b. 1898)
• 1951 – Edwin L. Marin, American film director (b. 1899)
• 1957 – Joseph Raymond McCarthy, American Senator (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Franz von Papen, German statesman and diplomat (b. 1879)
• 1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, American public servant and FBI Director (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1903)
• 1980 – George Pal, Hungarian-American film director and producer (b. 1908)
• 1981 – David Wechsler, Romanian-American psychologist (b. 1896)
• 1994 – Louis Calaferte, French writer (b. 1928)
• 1997 – John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator (b. 1921)
• 1998 – Hideto Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
• 1998 – Kamil Şerbetçi, Turkish businessman and President of Gaziantep Chamber of Industry (as a result of heart attack)
• 1999 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgarian poet (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Yaman Tarcan, Turkish cinema and theater actor (b. 1959)
• 2011 – Osama bin Laden, founder and leader of Al Qaeda (b. 1957)
• 2011 – Ion Barbu, Romanian former national football player (b. 1938)
• 2011 – Shigeo Yaegashi, Japanese former international football player (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Tufan Miñnullin, Tatar writer, playwright, publisher (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Jeff Hanneman, American musician and former Slayer guitarist (b. 1964)
• 2014 – Mohammad Reza Lutfi, Iranian musician (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., an American actor (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Guy Carawan, American folk singer and musicologist (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballerina (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Ruth Rendell, English writer (d. 1930)
• 2016 – Afeni Shakur, American businesswoman, philanthropist, former political activist, and Black Panther Party member (b. 1947)
• 2016 – Ömer Faruk Akün, Turkish literary historian, writer and academic (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Çetin Birmek, Turkish bureaucrat (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Heinz Kessler, German communist revolutionary and former defense minister of the German Democratic Republic (b. 1920)
• 2017 – Moray Watson, English actress (b. 1928)
• 2018 – Gord Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1960)
• 2018 – Tony Cucchiara, Italian folk singer-songwriter, playwright, and composer (b. 1937)
• 2018 – Kottayam Pushpanath, Indian writer and novelist (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Michel Crauste, Former French professional rugby player (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Fatimih Dávila, Uruguayan model (b. 1988)
• 2019 – Master Hirannaiah, Indian theater, film and television actor (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Lord Toby Jug (born Brian Borthwick), British politician (b. 1965)
• 2019 – Christopher Reccardi, American animated film director, animator, and screenwriter (b. 1964)
• 2019 – John Starling, American Bluegrass musician, composer, and otolaryngologist (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Justa Barrios, home care worker and labor organizer for the “Ain't IA Woman” campaign (b. 1957)
• 2020 – James M. Cross, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2020 – Cady Groves, American singer-songwriter (b. 1989)
• 2020 – Jim Henderson, Canadian politician who served as Liberal member of the Ontario Legislature from 1985-1995 (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Ḥamid Ceryat, stage name Idir, Algerian artist and activist of Berber descent (b. 1949)
• 2020 – Daniel S. Kemp, American organic chemist (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Munir Mangal, Afghan general (b. 1950)
• 2020 – Ralph McGehee, American intelligence officer (b. 1928)
• 2020 – John Ogilvie, Scottish football player (b. 1928)
• 2020 – Meyer Rubin, American geologist (b. 1924)
• 2020 – Jan-Olaf Strandberg, Swedish actor (b. 1926)
• 2020 – Erik Tandberg, Norwegian engineer, politician, author, television personality and space science educator (b. 1932)
• 2020 – Ajay Kumar Tripathi, Indian supreme judge and politician (b. 1957)
• 2021 – Bronisław Cieślak, Polish actor and politician (b. 1943)
• 2021 – Carlos Romero Barceló, Puerto Rican politician (b. 1932)

Holidays and special occasions

• National holiday in Poland commemorating the country flag, Flag Day.
• Teachers' Day in Iran
• National Education Day in Indonesia
• Regional holiday of Madrid (autonomous region)