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May 2
1885Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time. 1939Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it. 1945The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin. 1955Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1969The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York. 1994Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election. 1997The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years. 
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