Today in History: May 2, Nelson Mandela claims election victory
This day is Friday May the nd day of There are days left in the year At present in history On May Nelson Mandela claimed preeminence in the wake of South Africa s first democratic elections Also on this date In during the Civil War Confederate Gen Thomas Stonewall Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville Virginia he died eight days later Related Articles Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR Email mistake reveals secret plans to end research on Head Start and other child safety net programs California population advancement State just K residents short of record high Man arrested on suspicion of smuggling exotic parakeets inside cowboy boots across California-Mexico boundary Funding cuts threaten to deepen hunger problem as rising costs send more families to food banks In the U S Supreme Court in Buck v Bell upheld - a Virginia law allowing the forced sterilization of people in order to promote the robustness of the individual and the welfare of society In a fire at the Sunshine silver mine in Kellogg Idaho claimed the lives of miners who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning In Tony Blair whose Labour Party crushed John Major s long-reigning Conservatives in a national balloting became Britain s youngest prime minister in years at age In al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden who d been killed hours earlier in a raid by American forces at his Pakistan compound was buried at sea In Michael Slager a white former police officer whose killing of Walter Scott an unarmed Black man running from a traffic stop was captured on cellphone video pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges in Charleston South Carolina Slager would be sentenced to years in prison In in a Fox News interview attorney Rudy Giuliani commented President Donald Trump had reimbursed Trump s personal lawyer Michael Cohen for in hush money paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels days before the presidential polling comments that appeared to contradict Trump s past contends that he didn t know the source of the money In a draft was leaked of a Supreme Court ruling throwing out the landmark Roe v Wade abortion rights ruling that had stood for a half-century The court cautioned that the draft was not final The decision would be issued in essentially the same form the following month In contemporary times s Birthdays Singer Engelbert Humperdinck is Actor David Suchet SOO -shay is Sen Peter Welch D-Vt is Singer-songwriter Larry Gatlin is Rock singer Lou Gramm Foreigner is Actor Christine Baranski is Basketball Hall of Famer Jamaal Wilkes is Fashion designer Donatella Versace is Filmmaker Stephen Daldry is Country singer Ty Herndon is Actor-wrestler Dwayne The Rock Johnson is Former soccer athlete David Beckham is Actor Kumail Nanjiani is Actor Ellie Kemper is Singer Lily Allen is NASCAR driver Kyle Busch is Olympic figure skating gold medalist Sarah Hughes is Musician Lucy Dacus is Princess Charlotte of Wales is
