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On this day - MAY 2

From the Bolton Evening News, first published Tuesday 4th May 2004.

1519: Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and man of science, died at the Chateau Cloux near Amboise.

1670: The Hudson's Bay Company was chartered.

1859: Jerome K Jerome, novelist whose Three Men In A Boat sold more than one million copies, was born in Walsall.

1942: HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea off Norway. Its cargo of gold bars lay in 803 feet of water until salvaged in 1981.

1952: The first jet passenger service began, between London and Johannesburg.

1953: Stanley Matthews, at 38, won his first FA Cup winners medal as Blackpool beat Bolton 4-3 after trailing 3-1.

1965: Britain's Early Bird satellite began transmitting TV programmes to 300 million viewers - the first programme was Out Of This World.

1969: The Queen Elizabeth II sailed from Southampton on her maiden voyage.

1982: The Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was sunk by British submarine HMS Conqueror off the Falklands.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith brushed aside the resignation of a frontbench spokesman to hail as a "spectacular victory" his party's success in gaining more than 500 seats in the local elections.

BIRTHDAYS: Bianca Jagger, ex-wife of Mick, 59; David Suchet, actor, 58; Alan Titchmarsh, horticulturist and broadcaster, 55; Isla St Clair, TV personality, 52; Dawn Primarolo, Paymaster General, 50; David O'Leary, football manager, 46; Gary Megson, football manager, 45; Jimmy White, snooker player, 42; Brian Lara, cricketer, 35; David Beckham, footballer, 29.

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