On May 2, 1519, Leonardo da Vinci, the Florentine painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and scientist, died in Cloux, France.
In 1837 Democrat William B. Ogden was elected the first mayor of Chicago, defeating Whig John H. Kinzie by a vote of 489-217.
In 1865 the body of President Abraham Lincoln arrived in Chicago to lie in state in a downtown courthouse. About 125,000 people would view the coffin.
In 1890 the Oklahoma Territory was organized.
In 1904 Bing Crosby was born in Tacoma, Wash.
In 1936 Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” a symphonic tale for children, premiered in Moscow.
In 1960 Caryl Chessman, a sex offender who became a best-selling author while on Death Row, was executed at San Quentin Prison.
In 1972 a mine fire in Kellogg, Idaho, killed 91 people. Also in 1972 J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI for 48 years, died in Washington at age 77.
In 1987 Alysheba won the 113th Kentucky Derby to earn a record $618,600.
In 1997 a national memorial honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt was opened in Washington.
