Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 2
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May 2: Easter Monday in Eastern Christianity (2005), 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, defence commandant of Berlin, surrendered the city to Soviet forces, ending the Battle of Berlin.
- 1982 - Falklands War: The HMS Conqueror sank the ARA General Belgrano.
- 1999 - Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.