Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 2
May 2: Yom Hazikaron in Israel (2006); Teachers' Day in Iran, Flag Day in Poland.
- 1670 - A Royal Charter granted the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly in the fur trade in Rupert's Land.
- 1933 - The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was reported.
- 1945 - World War II: General Helmuth Weidling (pictured), defence commandant of Berlin, surrendered the city to Soviet forces led by General Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin.
- 1982 - HMS Conqueror launched three torpedoes and sank ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
- 1999 - Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.