Today in History - History - May 2nd

1941Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy

1957Gangster Frank Costello escapes an assassination attempt made by rival mobsters

1938Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"

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

1863Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men

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

2000President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.

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

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

1991Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus

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

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)

1985Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter

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)

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

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

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