On This Day

May 1st
1967
ELVIS marries his sweetheart Priscilla in Las Vegas

Born today
1769
Duke of Wellington

May 1, 1960

Russians shoot down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane with a ground-to-air missle, surprising the hell out of not only Powers, but Ike & the entire CIA.

May 2, 1335 : Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia. Why was he called Otto the Merry? It's still a mystery.

May 2, 1980
Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa.

May 2, 1982
Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men, inspiring Roger to write Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Dessert.

May 2, 1335 (later that day)
Duke of Carinthia explains to confused family members that he changed his name because Otto The Merry sounded silly, and made everyone think he was gay. Which he wasn't. But Otto...er...The Duke, assured everyone that even if he were, there was nothing wrong with that. Some of his best friends were gay, he further explained.

Apple crumble, was it?

And there's this one who wrote in that TFC doesnt make sense.

May 2nd 1863
Confederate General"Stonewall" Jackson is accidentally shot by his own pickets in the dark after the Battle of Chancellorsville he dies shortly afterwards.

Temporary Insanity claims another one.

May 3, 1933
1933 - Mr. James Dynamite Brown was born.

"He has lost his left hand, but I have lost my right" - Son of Harry "Lighthorse" Lee

May 3, 1494 - Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica. He arrives there a couple of days later, when he becomes the first European to smoke a joint.

And the first European dancing reggae music.

This whole thread can be read at various "On This Day" sites.
1942 - The Battle of the Coral Sea commenced as American and Japanese carriers launched their attacks at each other.

1942 - The United States began food rationing.

1945 - The Nazis surrendered in Holland, north Germany and Denmark.

On this day:

Today, at two minutes and three seconds past one in the morning the date will read: 01:02:03 04/05/06 (in the UK date format)

Or, at two minutes and one second past three in the morning the date will read: 06-05-04 03:02:01.00 (in big-endian date/time format ignoring centuries - years-months-days hours:minutes:seconds )

May 4, 1970

"Four dead in Oh-high-oh"