Important Historical May 2

1918 : General Motors acquired Chevrolet Motor Company.

1921 : Vinayak Savarkar’s brothers Babarao and Tatyarao were sent to India from the Andaman.

1950 : France handed over its colony Chandranagar near Kolkata to the Government of India.

1986 : 30-year-old Ann Bancroft of America became the first woman to reach the North Pole.

2004 : S Rajendrababu became the 34th Chief Justice of India.

2011 : US Special Forces Navy Seals-6 assassinated Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

2012 : Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream sold’ for 120 million at auction. This became a new world record.

Famous Birthdays

1920: Vasantrao Deshpande, a Hindustani classical vocalist.

1921: Satyajit Ray, an Indian film director, writer, illustrator, and music composer.

1969: Brian Lara, a Trinidadian former international cricketer.

1972: Ahti Heinla, an Estonian computer programmer and businessman. He is one of the developers of Skype.

1972: Dwayne Johnson, The Rock, an American-Canadian actor, producer, businessman, and retired professional wrestler.

1975: David Beckham, an English former professional footballer, the current president & co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City.

Death anniversaries - May 2

1519: Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian polymath and the greatest painter of all time.

1985: Banarsidas Chaturvedi, an Indian Hindi-language writer, and journalist.

1999: Pt. Sudhakarbuva Digrajkar, a classical singer of the Jaipur-Atrauli family.

2011: Osama bin Laden, a founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda.