Today in History - History - May 2nd

1900George Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" premieres in London

1536Anne Boleyn is arrested and taken to the Tower of London

1941Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy

1863Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men

1670King Charles II gives royal charter to the Hudson's Bay Company

1933In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions

1939Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2

1997Police arrest transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy

1783Architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant is promoted by brevet to Major of Engineers in recognition of his service to American liberty

1906Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dismisses his moderate Prime Minister Witte and appoints Ivan Goremykin, a conservative bureaucrat

1972Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor

1797Abraham Gesner, Cornwallis Nova Scotia, Canadian geologist (inventor of kerosene)

1985Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter

1903Benjamin Spock, New Haven, Connecticut, American pediatrician (Common Sense Book of Baby Care)

1729Catherine the Great [Catherine II], Stettin, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, Empress of Russia (1762-96)

1892Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [The Red Baron], Breslau, German World War I fighter ace

2009Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (32) weds film and stage actor Peter Sarsgaard (38) in a small chapel in Brindisi, Italy

1946"Rebecca" actress Joan Fontaine (28) weds producer and actor William Dozier (38)

1519Leonardo da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67

2011Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and 'the most wanted man in the world' (b. 1957)

1957Joseph McCarthy, anti-communist US senator (R-Wisc), dies at 48

1972J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) dies at 77