On May 2, 1903, Benjamin Spock, the American pediatrician whose book, “Baby and Child Care,” published in 1946, was one of the best-sellers of all time, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1968, Dr. Spock was charged with conspiracy to counsel, aid, and abet resistance to the draft, along with four others (William Sloane Coffin, Marcus Raskin, Mitchell Goodman, and Michael Ferber). Spock was convicted and given a two-year prison sentence, but in 1969 a federal court set aside his conviction.
On May 2, 2011, U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man, in Abbottabad, Pakistan.