On May 2, 1519, Florentine painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and scientist Leonardo da Vinci died.
In 1863 Confederate Gen. Thomas ”Stonewall” Jackson was wounded fatally by his own soldiers when they mistook him for a Union scout during the Civil War battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia.
In 1865 the body of President Abraham Lincoln arrived in Chicago to lie in state.
In 1941 the movie ”Citizen Kane,” starring, directed by and cowritten by Orson Welles, premiered in New York.
In 1944 synthetic quinine was produced in a Harvard University laboratory.
In 1945 the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies reported the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
In 1972 a mine fire killed 91 people in Kellogg, Idaho. Also, J. Edgar Hoover, who served 48 years as head of the FBI, died at 77.
In 1974 the Maryland Court of Appeals ordered former Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred from legal practice in the state.
In 1984, while returning from China, President Reagan stopped in Fairbanks, Alaska, and met briefly with Pope John Paul II, who was on his way to South Korea.
