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What happened in history on this day: May 3?
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- 1010 - Ansfried 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about age 69.
- 1294 - Jan I duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies.
- 1294 - John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg.
- 1342 - Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein).
- 1382 - Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge.
- 1410 - Alexander V [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies.
- 1442 - Engelbert I Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies.
- 1446 - Birth of Margaretha English princess/duchess of Bourgondie.
- 1455 - Birth of Joâo II the perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews.
- 1455 - Jews flee Spain.
- 1469 - Birth of Niccolo Machiavelli in Florence, Italy; philosopher and writer (The Prince).
- 1481 - Mohammed II [Fâtih], sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies.
- 1494 - Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it "St Iago".
- 1512 - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen (18th ecumenical council) in Rome.
- 1514 - Birth of Bartholomaeus a Martyribus [Fernandez], primate of Portugal.
- 1515 - Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz.
- 1521 - The Spanish under Hernando Cortez begin the fight for Mexico City.
- 1535 - Birth of Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori Italian painter/carpet designer.
- 1606 - Death of Henry Garnett by head chopped off; English Jesuit implicated in the Gunpowder Plot.
- 1614 - Sasbout Vosmeer Roman Catholic theologist/apostole vicar, dies at age 66.
- 1616 - Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war.
- 1621 - Francis Bacon accused of bribery.
- 1624 - Spanish silver fleet sails to Panamá.
- 1629 - French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain.
- 1640 - English Upper house accept Act of Attainder.
- 1647 - Birth of John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes poet (Bellone aen bant).
- 1649 - Birth of Johann Valentin Meder composer.
- 1654 - Bridge at Rowley Massachusetts begins charging tolls for animals.
- 1654 - François van Kinschot treasurer-general/chancellor of Brabant, dies at age 77.
- 1660 - Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva.
- 1661 - Johannes Hevelius observes third transit of Mercury ever to be seen.
- 1662 - Royal charter granted Connecticut.
- 1662 - Birth of Daniel Matthäus Pöppelmann in Herford; state architect in Dresden (Zwinger, Elbe Bridge).
- 1664 - About 9000 Moors under Abdallah Ghailon ambush about 500 well-equipped English soldiers in Tangier, killing all but 30 who escape wounded, at a cost of over 1000 Moors killed.
- 1678 - French conquering fleet at Curaçao, 1200 die.
- 1691 - Birth of Carolus van der Abeele Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction à l'amour).
- 1692 - Birth of Jan J Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51).
- 1715 - Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads".
- 1722 - Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris France.
- 1737 - Abraham Patras Governor-General of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at age 65.
- 1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht.
- 1758 - Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini] Pope (1740-58), dies at age 83.
- 1764 - Birth of Elisabeth PMH princess of France/son of king Louis XVI.
- 1764 - Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at age 53.
- 1765 - First US medical college opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan, the School of Medicine belonged to the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).
- 1773 - Birth of Giuseppe Acerbi Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat.
- 1774 - Heinrich A Fouqué Prussian general (7 year war), dies at age 76.
- 1802 - Washington, District of Columbia, incorporates as a city.
- 1802 - All foreign gold and silver coins cease to be legal tender in the USA for three years.
- 1815 - Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples.
- 1816 - Birth of Montgomery Cunningham Meigs; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1892).
- 1822 - Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France).
- 1826 - Birth of Charles XV Louis E King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet.
- 1830 - First regular steam train passenger service starts.
- 1841 - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at age 74.
- 1844 - Birth of Richard D'Oyly Carte in England; opera impresario (Ivanhoe).
- 1845 - Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China.
- 1846 - Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas.
- 1849 - Birth of Jacob Riis in Denmark; reporter (New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun).
- 1849 - May Uprising of pro-democracy protesters in Dresden, Saxony. Revolt put down after six days of street battles.
- 1851 - Most of San Francisco, California destroyed by fire; 30 die.
- 1855 - Antwerp to Rotterdam railway opens.
- 1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at age 52.
- 1859 - Birth of Andy Adams; US writer (Log of a Cowboy).
- 1861 - US President Abraham Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen.
- 1863 - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 35.
- 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten USA army withdraws.
- 1867 - Birth of Jack Hearne; cricket player (cousin of George and Alec 12 Tests for England).
- 1867 - Birth of Valère-Gille; Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre).
- 1873 - Birth of [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll; Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Denmark).
- 1876 - Birth of Bert Hopkins; cricket player (Australian pace bowler of the 1900's).
- 1876 - Birth of John Elicius Benedict Bernard Placid Quick Carrington Dwyer; cricket player (Sussex).
- 1881 - Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies.
- 1887 - In Sonora, Mexico, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurs.
- 1892 - Birth of Beulah Bondi in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (It's a Wonderful Life).
- 1892 - Birth of George Thomson; demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel Prize 1937).
- 1895 - Birth of Earnest Kantorowicz; German/US historian (Laudes regiae).
- 1895 - Birth of Gabriel Chevallier; French author (Le petit général).
- 1895 - Birth of Zoltan Korda; Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, Four Feathers).
- 1898 - Birth of Golda Mabovitch AKA Golda Meir AKA Golda Meyerson in Kiev, Ukraine; signer of Israel's declaration of independence, Israeli ambassador to Russia, member of Knesset, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974).
- 1899 - Birth of Aline MacMahon in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Backdoor to Heaven).
- 1900 - 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieutenant Gibson wins in 2:06.25.
- 1901 - Birth of Gino Cervi in Bologna, Italy; actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja).
- 1901 - Fire destroys 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
- 1902 - 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75.
- 1902 - Birth of Jack Larue in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette).
- 1902 - Birth of Seton I Miller in Chehalis, Washington, USA; writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul).
- 1902 - Birth of Walter Slezak in Vienna, Austria; actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General).
- 1902 - David R Capriles, Curaçaos director of psychiatric, dies at age 64.
- 1903 - Birth of Bing Crosby AKA Harry Lillis Crosby in Tacoma, Washington, USA; singer (The Bing Crosby Show, Hollywood Palace).
- 1904 - Birth of Charles "Red" Ruffing; New York Yankees' pitcher, hitter (1930-46).
- 1904 - Birth of John Breeden in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street).
- 1905 - Birth of Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach; duke of Bavaria.
- 1905 - Birth of Sebastian Lewis Shaw; actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste).
- 1906 - Birth of Mary Astor in Quincy, Illinois, USA; actress (The Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific).
- 1906 - British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey.
- 1907 - Birth of Earl Wilson in Rockford, Ohio, USA; columnist (Midnight Earl).
- 1909 - 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2.
- 1913 - Birth of Earl Blackwell in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; author (Celebrity Register).
- 1913 - Birth of William M Inge; US playwright (Picnic - Pulitzer 1953).
- 1916 - Birth of Henry Barbosa Gonzalez in San Antonio, Texas; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Texas, 1961-).
- 1916 - Birth of Pierre Emmanuel; French poet (Sodome).
- 1916 - Pádraic Pearse, Irish nationalist, is executed by British firing squad.
- 1917 - Norman Callaway, New South Wales bat, cricket player (207 in only FC innings), dies.
- 1919 - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain.
- 1919 - America's first passenger flight (New York to Atlantic City).
- 1919 - Birth of Betty Comden in Brooklyn, New York, USA; song writer (Comden and Green - "Bells are Ringing").
- 1919 - Birth of Pete Seeger in New York City, New York, USA; folk singer ("Weaver", "Goodnight Irene").
- 1920 - Birth of Sugar Ray Robinson [Walter Smith]; middleweight/welterweight boxer (champion).
- 1921 - Birth of Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves; Portuguese leftist colonel.
- 1921 - West Virginia imposes first state sales tax.
- 1922 - Birth of Marina Svetlova; ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo).
- 1923 - First nonstop transcontinental flight (New York-San Diego) completed.
- 1923 - Birth of Ralph M Hall; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Texas, 1981-).
- 1924 - Birth of Mary Carver in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Cecilia - Simon and Simon).
- 1925 - Birth of Nina Bara in Buenos Aires, Argentina; actress (Tonga - Space Patrol).
- 1925 - Clément Ader, French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at age 84.
- 1926 - British general strike-3 million workers support miners.
- 1926 - Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne, dies at age 63.
- 1926 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith).
- 1926 - US marines land in Nicaragua (9 months after leaving), stay until 1933.
- 1928 - Birth of James Brown in Augusta, Georgia, USA; singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 ("Hot Pants").
- 1928 - Birth of Jeanne Bal in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Pat - Love and Marriage).
- 1929 - Birth of Jaharna Imam; Bangladeshi writer/political activist.
- 1929 - Prussia bans anti-fascists.
- 1931 - Birth of Alex Cord; actor (The Dead are Alive).
- 1932 - 24 tourists begin first air-charter holiday (London, England, to Basle, Switzerland).
- 1932 - Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at age 51.
- 1933 - Birth of Collie Smith; cricket player (exciting West Indies all-rounder all too briefly).
- 1934 - Donald Bradman scores 206 Australia versus Worcestershire, 210 minutes, 27 fours.
- 1934 - Death of William Hartman Woodin in New York, USA; US Treasury Secretary (1933).
- 1935 - Birth of Donald P Hodel in Portland, Oregon, USA; US Secretary of Interior (1985-89).
- 1936 - French People's Front wins elections.
- 1936 - New York Yankees' player Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets three hits.
- 1937 - Birth of Frankie Valli [Castelluccio] in Newark, New Jersey, USA; singer (Four Seasons - "Sherry").
- 1937 - Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind.
- 1938 - Concentration camp at Flossenbürg goes into use.
- 1938 - Vatican recognizes Francesco Franco as head of Spain.
- 1939 - Birth of Jonathan David Harvey; English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen).
- 1939 - Birth of José Torres; American boxer (Olympics).
- 1939 - Birth of Samantha Eggar in London, England; actress (Anna and the King, Collector).
- 1939 - [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at age 71.
- 1940 - (0215 hours) The Allied Expeditionary Force in Norway completes its withdrawal from Namsos and Andalsnes.
- 1941 - 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4.
- 1941 - Birth of Nona Gaprindasvili in USSR; world women's chess champion (1962-78).
- 1941 - German air raid on Liverpool, England.
- 1942 - Birth of Lynn Farleigh in Bristol, England; actress (Lovers of Their Time).
- 1942 - Birth of Vera Càslavskà-Odlozilova in Czechoslovakia; gymnast (Olympics-gold-1964, 1968).
- 1942 - Japanese troops attack Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo, Solomon Islands.
- 1942 - Johan H Westerveld, Lieutenant-Colonel/leader Order Service, executed.
- 1942 - German luftwaffe bombs Exeter, England.
- 1942 - Germans execute 72 OD'ers in reprisal in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands.
- 1942 - Germans require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star.
- 1943 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth).
- 1943 - US first armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia.
- 1944 - Birth of Peter Staples; rocker (Troggs - "Wild Thing").
- 1944 - Meat rationing ends in US.
- 1945 - First Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen.
- 1945 - Allies arrest German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg.
- 1945 - Birth of Sadiq Mohammad; cricket player (attacking Pakistan opening batsman 1969-81).
- 1945 - British troops join in attack on Rangoon, Burma.
- 1945 - British bombers attack and sink German Hamburg South America Line ship Cap Arcona (27,600 tons) in the East Sea, with the loss of about 5000 people of 6000 on board.
- 1945 - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch Member of Parliament (CPN), dies at age 66.
- 1946 - Birth of Greg Gumbel; sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN).
- 1946 - International military tribunal in Tokyo begins.
- 1947 - 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8.
- 1947 - Birth of Doug Henning in Fort Garry, Manitoba, Canada; magician (Broadway play - Magic).
- 1947 - Japan forms a constitutional democracy.
- 1948 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams.
- 1949 - First firing of a US Viking rocket; reaches 80 km.
- 1949 - Birth of Albert Sacco Junior in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; PhD/astronaut (STS 73).
- 1949 - Birth of Ron Wyden; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Oregon, 1981-).
- 1950 - Birth of Mary Hopkin in South Wales; singer ("Those Were the Days").
- 1951 - Birth of Christopher Cross [Geppert] in San Antonio, Texas, USA; singer ("Sailing", "Arthur's Theme").
- 1951 - New York Yankees' player Gil McDougald is 5th to get six RBIs in an inning (9th).
- 1952 - Call Me Madam closes at Imperial Theater in New York City after 644 performances.
- 1952 - First landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole.
- 1952 - 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6.
- 1952 - Birth of Allen Wells in England; 100 metre dash (Olympics-gold-1980).
- 1953 - Birth of Bruce Hall in Champaign, Illinois, USA; rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon - "Take It On The Run").
- 1953 - Birth of Van McLain; rocker (Shooting Star).
- 1953 - Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read".
- 1954 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh and John Patrick.
- 1955 - Birth of David Hookes; cricket player (dashing Australian LHB, S Aussie stalwart).
- 1955 - Birth of Steve Jones; English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols - "Mercy").
- 1955 - Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies.
- 1956 - A new range of mountains is discovered in Antarctica (two over 13,000 feet).
- 1956 - Frank Loesser's musical Most Happy Fella opens at the Imperial Theater New York City for 678 performances.
- 1957 - Birth of Cactus Moser in Montrose, Colorado, USA; country singer (Highway 101 - "Cry Cry Cry").
- 1957 - Birth of Rod Langway in Formosa, Taiwan; NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals).
- 1958 - At Churchill Downs racecourse near Louisville, Kentucky, the 84th Kentucky Derby race is held. Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05. Total gambling bets on the race: US$1,635,500.
- 1958 - Frank Foster, cricket player (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies.
- 1958 - WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston; he quits.
- 1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament.
- 1959 - Birth of Ben Elton in London, United Kingdom; actor (Stark, Friday Night Live).
- 1959 - Birth of David Ball in Blackpool, England; rock keyboardist (Soft Cell).
- 1959 - Detroit Tigers' Charlie Maxwell hits four consecutive homeruns in a doubleheader.
- 1959 - NBC airs the last The Steve Allen Show TV show.
- 1961 - Warren Spahn pitches a two hitter after pitching a no hitter.
- 1961 - The former Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
- 1962 - Express train crashes into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan).
- 1963 - Birth of Jeff Hornacek; NBA guard (Utah Jazz).
- 1963 - Leslie Narum is the only Baltimore Orioles' player to homer on his first at bat.
- 1964 - Birth of Ron Hextall in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; NHL goalie (Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders).
- 1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational.
- 1965 - In El Salvador, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs, killing 125, injuring about 500, and leaving an estimated 48,000 homeless. The town of Ilopango is almost completely destroyed.
- 1965 - First use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite.
- 1965 - Third Mayor's Trophy Game, New York Mets beat New York Yankees 2-1 in ten innings.
- 1965 - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US.
- 1965 - Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at age 76.
- 1965 - Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at age 75.
- 1965 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era).
- 1966 - Birth of Paul Stevenson in Victoria, Australia; badminton player (Olympics-1996).
- 1967 - Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University.
- 1968 - Birth of Deborah Caprioglio in Miestre, Italy; actress (Big Game Hunter).
- 1968 - Birth of Jay Darlington in London, England; keyboardist (Kula Shaker).
- 1969 - 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8.
- 1969 - Birth of Karen Kraft in San Mateo, California, USA; rower (Olympics-silver-1996).
- 1970 - 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3.
- 1970 - Birth of Alexia Dechaume-Ballert in La Rochelle, France; tennis star (1992 Australia).
- 1970 - Birth of Ted Crowley in Concord, Massachusetts, USA; American hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994).
- 1970 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational.
- 1971 - Birth of James Roberson; defensive end (Tennessee Oilers).
- 1971 - Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader.
- 1971 - National Public Radio begins programming; 112 NPR stations premiere All Things Considered.
- 1971 - US federal administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in three days.
- 1971 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun).
- 1972 - Birth of Brett Hayman; Australian rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1972 - Birth of Josh Taves; defensive end (New England Patriots).
- 1972 - Birth of Vyacheslav Kozlov in Voskresensk, Russia; NHL forward (Detroit Red Wings).
- 1972 - Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at age 68.
- 1972 - Leslie Harvey, lead guitarist of the Glasgow band Stone the Crows, dies after being electrocuted onstage at Swansea's Top Rank Ballroom.
- 1973 - Birth of Michel Traveller; soccer player (Ajax).
- 1973 - Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 metres), tops out.
- 1973 - Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his first major league hit.
- 1975 - 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02.
- 1975 - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8).
- 1975 - Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross), dies at age 78.
- 1976 - Ernie Nevers, college fullback (Stanford), dies at age 72.
- 1976 - Panamá 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26).
- 1976 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift).
- 1976 - Indonesia occupies whole of Portuguese territory on Timor.
- 1978 - "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US.
- 1978 - Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II.
- 1978 - Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston.
- 1978 - West Indies all set to lose cricket test versus Australia at Kingston till riots end game.
- 1978 - Wim van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at age 71.
- 1979 - Birth of Danny Foster; English singer (Hear'Say).
- 1979 - Bobby Bonds hits his 300th homerun (second to have 300 homeruns and 300 stolen bases).
- 1979 - Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate - Peyton Place), dies at age 76.
- 1980 - Birth of Marcel Vigneron; American chef (Top Chef TV show).
- 1980 - 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02.
- 1980 - San Francisco Giants' first baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final homerun.
- 1980 - Texas Rangers' Ferguson Jenkins becomes fourth to win 100 games in American League and National League.
- 1981 - Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International.
- 1982 - New York Times reports that military will get 25 percent of NASA's budget.
- 1982 - US President Ronald Reagan begins five-minute weekly radio broadcasts.
- 1983 - Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe.
- 1983 - US bishops condemn nuclear weapons.
- 1983 - Vaughn Taylor, actor (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at age 72.
- 1986 - 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8.
- 1986 - Air Lanka crashes, killing 22.
- 1986 - Chicago Cubs' third baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st homerun.
- 1986 - NASA launches Geos-G; it fails to achieve orbit.
- 1986 - New York Yankees' Don Mattingly is sixth to hit three sacrifice flies in a game.
- 1986 - CBS airs the final episode of Crazy Like a Fox TV show.
- 1986 - Death of Robert Alda at age 72 from an embolism caused by a stroke; actor (By Popular Demand, What's Your Bid?, Supertrain, Love of Life, Days of Our Lives, MASH).
- 1987 - Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic.
- 1987 - Dicky Fuller, cricket player (one Test for West Indies 1935, one run, 0-12), dies.
- 1988 - 4,200kg Colombian cocaine is seized at Tarpon Springs, Florida.
- 1989 - Christine Jorgensen, first transsexual, dies at age 62.
- 1990 - Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies at age 79.
- 1991 - 356th and final episode of CBS-TV's second-longest-running series Dallas, second only to Gunsmoke.
- 1991 - Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch Member of Parliament (D66), dies.
- 1991 - Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at age 57.
- 1991 - Margaret Tallichet, actress (Stranger on the Third Floor), dies.
- 1991 - CBS airs the final episode of the Dallas TV show.
- 1992 - Baltimore Orioles' pitcher Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves.
- 1992 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic.
- 1992 - George Murphy, American politician (Senator-Republican-California, 1965-71), actor, dies of Leukemia at age 89.
- 1992 - New York Mets' player Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 homeruns.
- 1992 - Ohio Glory wins first WLAF game (after six losses), beat Frankfurt 20-17.
- 1992 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge.
- 1994 - The Norwegian government receives a US$1 million ransom demand for the safe return of stolen painting The Scream.
- 1994 - The Walt Disney Company announces plans to start a cruise ship venture.
- 1994 - 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins.
- 1994 - D66/Dutch Liberal Party wins Dutch second Parliamentary election.
- 1994 - Gustaaf baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at age 78.
- 1994 - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch Member of Parliament (CDA), dies at age 63.
- 1994 - Richard McClure Scarry, American author/illustrator of children's books, dies at age 74.
- 1994 - US space probe Clementine launched.
- 1995 - Australia beats West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy.
- 1995 - David Bell debuts for the Cleveland Indians (third generation player, Gus and Buddy).
- 1996 - Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at age 71.
- 1996 - Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 first wickett Yorks versus Glam.
- 1996 - Timothy Gullikson, tennis player/coach, dies at age 45.
- 1996 - In Western Nei Mongol, China, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurs. At least 18 people killed, 300 injured and extensive damage in the Baotou area.
- 1997 - 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3.
- 1997 - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen.
- 1997 - Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue.
- 1997 - Katrina and the Waves win Eurovision 1997 for the United Kingdom with "Love Shine a Light", the most successful Eurovision entry ever.
- 1999 - A Force 5 tornado slams into Moore, Oklahoma, killing 38 people - the second strongest tornado ever recorded in United States history.
- 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 (11,014.70) for the first time.
- 2000 - A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury-Jupiter) occurs on the New Moon.
- 2000 - In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2000 - In the Philippines, 24-year-old Onel De Guzman releases a virus that he had proposed creating as part of his undergraduate thesis. The email message was sent with subject "ILOVEYOU", and attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU". When opened, the virus activates, sending the message and attachment to every name on the email program's address list.
- 2000 - FOX airs the final episode of Party of Five TV show.
- 2002 - Sony releases the film Spider-Man to theaters.
- 2003 - The Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation in New Hampshire, USA, crumbles after heavy rain.
- 2005 - At least 32 people are killed and nine others injured when three two-story buildings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore collapse after gas cylinders stored in one of them explode.
- 2006 - Death of Pramod Mahajan, Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and strategist (born 1949).
- 2007 - Local government elections in Scotland and most of England. The Scottish National Party becomes the largest party in Scotland for the first time in their history.
- 2007 - The Royal Canadian Mint produces the first 100-kilogram gold coin with $1,000,000 face value, 53 cm in diameter, to celebrate the new $200 Maple Leaf gold coin with the world's highest purity, 0.99999 fine. Value of the gold in the coin is about US$2.6 million.
- 2007 - Death of Wally Schirra, American astronaut (born 1923).
- 2008 - Tropical cyclone Nargis passes through western Myanmar killing over 140,000 people and destroying thousands of homes. Winds reached 120 mph and tidal waves reached 12 feet high. 2-3 million residents are left homeless. This is the country's deadliest natural disaster ever in recorded history.
- 2008 - At Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby is held. Race favorite Big Brown wins by nearly five lengths. Second place finisher Eight Belles broke both front ankles, and was immediately euthanized. Race attendance was 157,770, the second-largest in history of the race.
- 2008 - Death of Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish Prime Minister of (born 1926).
- 2009 - In Marrakech, Morocco, round 3 of the FIA World Touring Car Championship is held. Race 1 is won by Rob Huff; race 2 is won by Nicola Larini.
- 2009 - In Jerez, Spain, round 3 of the FIM MotoGP Championship is won by Valentino Rossi.
- 2010 - UAL Corporation (parent of United Airlines) announces it will acquire Continental Airlines for US$3.17 billion in stock, to form the world's largest carrier.
- 2013 - Buena Vista releases the film Iron Man 3 to theaters.
- 2018 - The lower Puna eruption causes destruction of structures and forces many citizens of Hawaii to evacuate as lava floods the land.
- 2018 - The separatist group ETA officially announces its final dissolution after 40 years of conflict and more than 800 deaths in Spain.
- 2019 - (to May 6) The Gaza-Israel conflict escalates after the Israeli military launches airstrikes into Gaza killing more than 20 Palestinians, following the injury of two soldiers from Gazan sniper fire.
- 2019 - The number of deaths from the Kivu Ebola outbreak exceeds 1,000. It is the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history.
- 2020 - Venezuelan dissidents and an American-based private military company, Silvercorp USA, unsuccessfully attempt to infiltrate Venezuela and forcibly remove President Nicolás Maduro from office.
- 2021 - An overpass of Mexico City's subway collapses, killing 26.
- 2022 - Death of Tony Brooks at age 90; race car driver (Formula One, six world championship grands prix).
- 2023 - The World Health Organization downgrades Covid-19's alert status.
- 2023 - Death of Linda Lewis at age 72; singer (backing vocalist to David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Yusuf Islam).
- 2023 - Death of Tori Bowie at age 32; American runner (2016 Olympic Games, 100m relay (gold)).
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Bookmark this URL: http://kpolsson.com/thisday/ and revisit each day.
(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
Or, visit my Timelines of History page.
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