This Month That Year (May 2017)

May 2, 2011: The end of Osama 76555870

In one of the most covert operations of the decade, United States Navy SEALs killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Operation Neptune Spear. As widely believed, it was not a spur of the moment operation as the CIA began the fragmentation of evidences back in 2002. Despite all the criticism against the Obama government, it was regarded as the most significant move against terrorism. Following the September 11 attack, then President Bush’s remark that ‘justice will be done’ was remarkably ended by President Obama by saying that ‘justice has been done.’ Since the operation, there has not been any major attack on the American soil, but with the rise of ISIS, and the feelings Donald Trump shares with Muslims, will we witness a surgical strike against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?

1494: Columbus discovered Jamaica

Christopher Columbus sailed towards west to find the East Indies, and beached at Jamaica, thus discovering the island.

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Father of communism, Karl Marx was born in Germany this month. It is his theories and observations that formed the founding stone of second world countries.

1893: The panic of 1893

The Wall Street crash led to closure of 600 banks in America and bankruptcy of 15,000 business ventures. The unemployment rate had reached to 20 per cent across the US.

In one of the most successful evacuation missions, more than 335,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers were expatriated from the harbours of Dunkirk during the World War II.

German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of all fighting German soldiers, thus ending the World War II.

1991: Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi

During a re-election campaign in Tamil Nadu, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber.

From the May 2017 issue of FHM India.