📅 May 2 · Portsmouth, Great Mill Disaster, Henri Toivonen, Cyclone Manou, Killing of…
May 2 in history: • 1194 – King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth its first royal charter. → go there • 1878 – A dust explosion (depicted) at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths. → go there • 1986 – Henri Toivonen was killed in an accident while leading the Tour de Corse rally, resulting in FISA banning the popular Group B rally cars for the following season. → go there • 2003 – Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people homeless. → go there • 2011 – Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six in his private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. → go there Born 1360: Yongle Emperor Wiki link Born 1806: Catherine Labouré Wiki link Born 1881: George Went Hensley Wiki link Born 2015: Princess Charlotte of Wales Wiki link Pictured: Great Mill Disaster illustration.