Today in History - History - May 2nd

1999John Elway announces his retirement from the NFL

1982Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic

1909Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs

1949Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"

1933In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions

197914th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell

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

1965Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational

1923Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0

1941Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy

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

1985Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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