May 2
| 1670 | The Hudson Bay Company is founded. | |
| 1598 | Henry IV signs Treaty of Vervins, ending Spain's interference in France. | |
| 1668 | Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution in France. | |
| 1776 | France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British. | |
| 1797 | A mutiny in the British navy spreads from Spithead to the rest of the fleet. | |
| 1798 | The black General Toussaint L'ouverture forces British troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo. | |
| 1808 | The citizens of Madrid rise up against Napoleon. | |
| 1813 | Napoleon defeats a Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen. | |
| 1863 | Stonewall Jackson smashes Hooker's flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia. | |
| 1865 | President Andrew Johnson offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President | |
| 1885 | King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State. | |
| 1890 | The Territory of Oklahoma is created. | |
| 1919 | The first U.S. air passenger service starts. | |
| 1923 | Lieutenants Okaley Kelly and John Macready take off from New York for the West Coast on what will become the first successful nonstop transcontinental flight. | |
| 1941 | Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country's pro-German faction. | |
| 1942 | Admiral Chester J. Nimitz, convinced that the Japanese will attack Midway Island, visits the island to review its readiness. | |
| 1945 | Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting. | |
| 1946 | Prisoners revolt at California's Alcatraz prison. | |
| 1968 | The U.S. Army attacks Nhi Ha in South Vietnam and begins a fourteen-day battle to wrestle it away from Vietnamese Communists. | |
| 1970 | Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus. |
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