WHAT HAPPENED ON 2. MAY
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Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece. (2. May 1906)

General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. (2. May 1918)

The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis. (2. May 1920)

Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time. (2. May 1932)

Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions. (2. May 1933)

Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power. (2. May 1941)

World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building. (2. May 1945)

World War II: Italian Campaign – General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy. (2. May 1945)

World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death. (2. May 1945)

The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place; two guards and three inmates are killed. (2. May 1946)

The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg. (2. May 1952)

Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (2. May 1955)

Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany. (2. May 1963)

Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than 7 months later. (2. May 1964)

First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders. (2. May 1964)

The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City. (2. May 1969)

In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers. (2. May 1972)

Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. (2. May 1982)

The Chernobyl Disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster (2. May 1986)

Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect. (2. May 1989)