WillDekkard
05-03-2010, 04:08 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 3rd
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* 1491 Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of Joγo I.
* 1494 Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
* 1715 "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, United Kingdom for almost 900 years).
* 1791 The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of PolishLithuanian Commonwealth.
* 1802 Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
* 1808 Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
* 1808 Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Prνncipe Pνo hill.
* 1815 Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
* 1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
* 1837 The University of Athens is founded.
* 1849 The May Uprising in Dresden begins the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
* 1860 Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
* 1867 The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
* 1877 Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
* 1901 The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
* 1913 Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film was released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
* 1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
* 1916 The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
* 1920 A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
* 1921 West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
* 1924 Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska
* 1928 Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
* 1933 Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
* 1937 Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
* 1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
* 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.
* 1945 World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lόbeck Bay.
* 1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
* 1947 New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
* 1948 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
* 1951 London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
* 1951 The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
* 1951 The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time.
* 1952 Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
* 1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
* 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.
* 1960 The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
* 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 newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
* 1973 The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.
* 1978 The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (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.
* 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.
* 1987 A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
* 1991 The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
* 1999 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.
* 2000 The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
* 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.
* 2002 A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
* 2003 New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
* 2006 Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
* 2006 Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
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- May 3rd
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1491 Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of Joγo I.
* 1494 Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
* 1715 "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, United Kingdom for almost 900 years).
* 1791 The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of PolishLithuanian Commonwealth.
* 1802 Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
* 1808 Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
* 1808 Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Prνncipe Pνo hill.
* 1815 Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
* 1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
* 1837 The University of Athens is founded.
* 1849 The May Uprising in Dresden begins the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
* 1860 Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
* 1867 The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
* 1877 Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
* 1901 The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
* 1913 Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film was released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
* 1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
* 1916 The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
* 1920 A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
* 1921 West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
* 1924 Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska
* 1928 Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
* 1933 Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
* 1937 Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
* 1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
* 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.
* 1945 World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lόbeck Bay.
* 1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
* 1947 New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
* 1948 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
* 1951 London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
* 1951 The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
* 1951 The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time.
* 1952 Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
* 1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
* 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.
* 1960 The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
* 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 newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
* 1973 The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.
* 1978 The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (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.
* 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.
* 1987 A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
* 1991 The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
* 1999 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.
* 2000 The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
* 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.
* 2002 A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
* 2003 New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
* 2006 Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
* 2006 Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
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