On May 2, 1536, Anne Boleyn [1], the second wife of Henry VIII, was arrested and taken to the Tower of London. She was beheaded following a four-day show trial.
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May 2, 1924: President Calvin Coolidge [2] proclaimed the ancient lava fields in Idaho as Craters of the Moon National Monument, in order to “preserve the unusual and weird volcanic formations.”
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On May 2nd, 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton [3] announced that high-accuarcy GPS [4] would be made available to the public; the satellite signals had previously been degraded for nonmilitary use.
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And on May 2nd, 1803, the United States [5] purchased the Louisiana Territory [6] from France [7] at a cost of four cents per acre for 828,000 square miles (2,144,520 square km), which soon proved to be a tremendous bargain.
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Today’s feature article was written by SurvivalBlog’s founder and Senior Editor, James Wesley, Rawles (JWR).
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