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May 3, 1998 wins Titleholders Golf Championship May 3, 1997 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3 May 3, 1997 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen May 3, 1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue May 3, 1996 Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks vs. Glam May 3, 1995 "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater New York City for 16 performances May 3, 1995 Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy May 3, 1995 David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus and Buddy) May 3, 1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins May 3, 1994 D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election May 3, 1994 U.S. space probe Clementine launched May 3, 1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 906 performances May 3, 1992 Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves May 3, 1992 Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs May 3, 1992 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic May 3, 1992 New York Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS May 3, 1992 Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17 May 3, 1992 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge May 3, 1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass May 3, 1991 356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke May 3, 1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida May 3, 1988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000 May 3, 1987 "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 46 performances May 3, 1987 Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic May 3, 1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart May 3, 1986 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8 May 3, 1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22 May 3, 1986 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st HR May 3, 1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit May 3, 1986 New York Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game May 3, 1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead May 3, 1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe May 3, 1983 U.S. bishops condemn nuclear weapons May 3, 1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) May 3, 1982 New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget May 3, 1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts May 3, 1981 "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 5 performances May 3, 1981 "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens and closes at Morosco Theater New York City May 3, 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International May 3, 1980 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02 May 3, 1980 Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final HR May 3, 1980 Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL and NL May 3, 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain May 3, 1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases) May 3, 1979 Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London May 3, 1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US May 3, 1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II May 3, 1978 Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston May 3, 1978 WI all set to lose cricket test vs. Aust at Kingston till riots end game May 3, 1976 Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) May 3, 1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) May 3, 1975 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02 May 3, 1975 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) May 3, 1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished May 3, 1973 Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit May 3, 1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations May 3, 1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader May 3, 1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days May 3, 1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) May 3, 1970 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 May 3, 1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational May 3, 1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 7 performances May 3, 1969 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8 May 3, 1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University May 3, 1966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting May 3, 1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite May 3, 1965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10 May 3, 1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the U.S. May 3, 1965 KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast May 3, 1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) May 3, 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational May 3, 1963 Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat May 3, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech May 3, 1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) May 3, 1961 Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter May 3, 1960 Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in New York City May 3, 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament May 3, 1959 Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive home runs in a doubleheader May 3, 1958 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05 May 3, 1958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits May 3, 1956 "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 678 performances May 3, 1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000') May 3, 1956 Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella," premieres in New York City May 3, 1954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting May 3, 1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick May 3, 1954 WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting May 3, 1953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting May 3, 1952 "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 644 performances May 3, 1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole May 3, 1952 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6 May 3, 1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning May 3, 1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th) May 3, 1949 1st firing of a U.S. Viking rocket; reached 80 km May 3, 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams May 3, 1947 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8 May 3, 1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy May 3, 1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins May 3, 1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen May 3, 1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg May 3, 1945 British troop join in Rangoon May 3, 1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed May 3, 1944 "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens on Broadway May 3, 1944 Meat rationing ends in U.S. May 3, 1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) May 3, 1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed May 3, 1943 U.S. 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia May 3, 1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo, Solomon Islands May 3, 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter May 3, 1942 Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands May 3, 1942 Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star May 3, 1941 German air raid on Liverpool May 3, 1941 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4 May 3, 1938 Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use May 3, 1938 Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941 May 3, 1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain May 3, 1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" May 3, 1936 French People's Front wins elections May 3, 1936 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits May 3, 1934 Bradman scores 206 Aust vs. Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours May 3, 1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office May 3, 1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists May 3, 1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners May 3, 1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) May 3, 1926 U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933 May 3, 1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York - San Diego) completed May 3, 1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium May 3, 1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk May 3, 1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax May 3, 1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain May 3, 1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City) May 3, 1917 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel" May 3, 1909 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2 May 3, 1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey May 3, 1903 AVC Heracles (South Carolina Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo May 3, 1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75 May 3, 1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida May 3, 1900 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06 May 3, 1898 Camp Merriman forms at Presidio May 3, 1886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC May 3, 1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault May 3, 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws May 3, 1863 Battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights) May 3, 1863 Battle of Salem Church, Virginia May 3, 1861 Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan May 3, 1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen May 3, 1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens May 3, 1851 Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die May 3, 1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas May 3, 1845 1st black lawyer (Macon B. Allen) admitted to bar May 3, 1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China May 3, 1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts May 3, 1822 Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France) May 3, 1815 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples May 3, 1810 Lord Byron swims Hellespont May 3, 1808 Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May" May 3, 1802 Washington D.C. incorporates as a city May 3, 1765 1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia May 3, 1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht May 3, 1722 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris May 3, 1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" May 3, 1678 French conquering fleet at Curaeao, 1200 die May 3, 1662 Royal charter granted Connecticut May 3, 1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen May 3, 1660 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva May 3, 1654 Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals May 3, 1640 English Upper house accept Act of Attainder May 3, 1629 French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain May 3, 1624 Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama May 3, 1621 Francis Bacon accused of bribery May 3, 1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war May 3, 1515 Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz May 3, 1512 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome May 3, 1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen May 3, 1494 Columbus discovers Jamaica May 3, 1494 Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St. Iago" May 3, 1455 Jews flee Spain May 3, 1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge May 3, 1342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein) May 3, 1294 John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg |