This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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May 2nd, 2008	Event	Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
May 2nd, 2008	Death	Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (born in 1940)
May 2nd, 2007	Death	Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (born in 1964)
May 2nd, 2006	Death	Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (born in 1933)
May 2nd, 2005	Death	Kenneth B. Clark, American psychologist (born in 1914)
May 2nd, 2005	Death	Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (born in 1915)
May 2nd, 2004	Event	Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
May 2nd, 2002	Event	Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala.
May 2nd, 2002	Death	John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (born in 1947)
May 2nd, 2002	Death	W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (born in 1917)

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