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Events on the 3rd of May in history

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03 May 0752 Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico assumes the throne.
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03 May 1294 John II becomes Duke of Brabant / Limburg
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03 May 1342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
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03 May 1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
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03 May 1455 Jews flee Spain
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03 May 1481 The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
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03 May 1491 Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
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03 May 1494 Columbus discovers Jamaica
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03 May 1494 Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
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03 May 1512 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
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03 May 1515 Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
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03 May 1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
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03 May 1621 Francis Bacon accused of bribery
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03 May 1624 Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
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03 May 1629 French huguenot leader Duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
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03 May 1640 English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
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03 May 1654 Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
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03 May 1660 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva
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03 May 1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
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03 May 1662 Royal charter granted Connecticut
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03 May 1678 French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die
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03 May 1715 A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy.
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03 May 1747 Willem IV appointed Viceroy of Holland / Utrecht
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03 May 1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
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03 May 1791 The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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03 May 1802 Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
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03 May 1808 Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
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03 May 1808 Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
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03 May 1810 Lord Byron swims Hellespont
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03 May 1815 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats King Joachim of Naples
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03 May 1815 Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
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03 May 1822 Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
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03 May 1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
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03 May 1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It's the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
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03 May 1837 The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
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03 May 1845 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
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03 May 1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
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03 May 1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
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03 May 1849 The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
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03 May 1851 Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
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03 May 1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
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03 May 1855 American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
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03 May 1860 Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
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03 May 1861 Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
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03 May 1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen
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03 May 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
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03 May 1863 Battle of Salem Church, Virginia
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03 May 1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
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03 May 1867 The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
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03 May 1877 Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
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03 May 1886 M A Maclean elected 1st Mayor of Vancouver, BC
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03 May 1898 Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (San Francisco)
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03 May 1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
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03 May 1901 The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
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03 May 1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
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03 May 1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
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03 May 1909 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
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03 May 1913 Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
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03 May 1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
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03 May 1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
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03 May 1920 A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
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03 May 1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
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03 May 1921 West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
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03 May 1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
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03 May 1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk
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03 May 1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
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03 May 1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
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03 May 1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
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03 May 1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
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03 May 1928 Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
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03 May 1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists
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03 May 1932 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switzerland)
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03 May 1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
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03 May 1934 Bradman scores 206 Aust vs. Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours
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03 May 1936 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
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03 May 1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
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03 May 1937 Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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03 May 1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
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03 May 1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
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03 May 1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
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03 May 1942 World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
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03 May 1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
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03 May 1943 US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
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03 May 1944 "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens on Broadway
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03 May 1944 Meat rationing ends in US
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03 May 1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
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03 May 1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
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03 May 1945 British troop join in Rangoon
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03 May 1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
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03 May 1945 World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
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03 May 1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
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03 May 1947 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
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03 May 1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
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03 May 1947 New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
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03 May 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams
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03 May 1948 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
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03 May 1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
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03 May 1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
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03 May 1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
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03 May 1951 The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
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03 May 1951 London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
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03 May 1952 "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
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03 May 1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
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03 May 1952 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
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03 May 1952 The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
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03 May 1952 Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
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03 May 1953 Westchester conf of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read"
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03 May 1953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
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03 May 1954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
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03 May 1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh and John Patrick
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03 May 1954 WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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03 May 1956 "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
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03 May 1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, to Los Angeles.
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03 May 1958 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
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03 May 1958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
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03 May 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
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03 May 1960 The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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03 May 1960 The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
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03 May 1961 Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
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03 May 1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
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03 May 1963 Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
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03 May 1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
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03 May 1963 The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
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03 May 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational
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03 May 1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
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03 May 1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
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03 May 1965 Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles, California)
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03 May 1965 KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
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03 May 1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
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03 May 1966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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03 May 1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University
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03 May 1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International
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03 May 1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 performances
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03 May 1969 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8
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03 May 1970 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
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03 May 1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
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03 May 1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
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03 May 1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
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03 May 1971 National Public Radio begins programming
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03 May 1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
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03 May 1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
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03 May 1973 The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
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03 May 1975 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02
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03 May 1975 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
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03 May 1976 Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
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03 May 1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
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03 May 1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
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03 May 1978 The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
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03 May 1979 1st woman Prime Minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
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03 May 1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
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03 May 1979 After the general election, Margaret Thatcher forms her first government as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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03 May 1980 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
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03 May 1980 Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final HR
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03 May 1980 Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL and NL
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03 May 1981 "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
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03 May 1981 "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens and closes at Morosco Theater, New York City
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03 May 1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
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03 May 1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
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03 May 1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
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03 May 1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
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03 May 1985 Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
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03 May 1986 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
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03 May 1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
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03 May 1986 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st HR
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03 May 1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
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03 May 1986 New York Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
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03 May 1986 Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
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03 May 1987 "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
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03 May 1987 Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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03 May 1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart
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03 May 1987 A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
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03 May 1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
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03 May 1991 356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
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03 May 1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
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03 May 1992 Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
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03 May 1992 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
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03 May 1992 New York Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
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03 May 1992 Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
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03 May 1992 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
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03 May 1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances
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03 May 1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
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03 May 1994 D66 / Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
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03 May 1995 "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
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03 May 1995 David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
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03 May 1996 Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks vs. Glam
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03 May 1997 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
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03 May 1997 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen
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03 May 1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
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03 May 1998 Wins Titleholders Golf Championship
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03 May 1999 The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
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03 May 2000 The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
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03 May 2001 The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
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03 May 2002 A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
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03 May 2003 New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
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03 May 2015 Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
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