What happened on 2 May?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1729 Born: Catherine the Great Enlightened despot whose Russia annexed Crimea and partitioned Poland.
2. 2011 Killing of Osama bin Laden US Navy SEAL Team Six raids his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan; bin Laden killed; body buried at sea.
3. 1997 Tony Blair's premiership Labour leader Tony Blair serves as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
4. 1921 Born: Satyajit Ray Bengali filmmaker; The Apu Trilogy launched modern Indian cinema onto the world stage.
5. 1968 May 1968 protests in France Student and worker protests bring France to a near-standstill; de Gaulle calls snap elections.
6. 1915 Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive Central Powers break Russian lines in Galicia, driving Russia back across Poland.
7. 2010 Greek bailout deals Multiple EU/IMF bailouts of Greece.
8. 1986 The Chernobyl exclusion zone A 30-kilometre circle drawn around the plant in the disaster's first week hardens into a permanent country-sized void: 350,000 people eventually resettled, villages buried, and a z
9. 1670 Hudson's Bay Company chartered Charles II grants a fur-trade monopoly over the watershed of Hudson Bay — a company that would govern a third of Canada for two centuries.
10. 2008 Cyclone Nargis The deadliest named cyclone in the North Indian Ocean devastates Myanmar's delta, killing over 138,000; the junta obstructs relief.