📜 This Day in History

May 2

• 1194King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth its first royal charter.
• 1878A dust explosion at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths.
• 1964Vietnam War: An explosion attributed to Viet Cong commandos caused the escort carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.
• 1999Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
• 2011The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the federal election to establish their first majority government.
• 2014Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people.

Born on this day

• 1729Catherine the Great of Russia (died 1796)
• 1772Novalis, German author and poet (died 1801)
• 1921Satyajit Ray, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1992)
• 1975David Beckham, English footballer, coach, and model