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Events from History on May 03

1294 : John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
1342 : Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
1382 : Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
1455 : Jews flee Spain
1494 : Columbus discovers Jamaica
1494 : Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
1512 : 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1512 : Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1515 : Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
1616 : Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
1621 : Francis Bacon accused of bribery
1624 : Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
1629 : French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
1640 : English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
1654 : Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
1660 : Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
1661 : Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
1662 : Royal charter granted Connecticut
1678 : French conquering fleet at Cura‡ao, 1200 die
1715 : Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1722 : Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris
1747 : Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
1765 : 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
1802 : Washington DC incorporates as a city
1808 : Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"
1810 : Lord Byron swims Hellespont
1815 : Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
1822 : Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1830 : 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1845 : 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
1845 : Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846 : Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1851 : Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
1855 : Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1861 : Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1861 : Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1863 : Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
1863 : Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
1863 : Battle of Salem Church, VA
1864 : 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
1886 : M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
1898 : Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
1901 : Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
1903 : AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo
1906 : British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1917 : 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1919 : Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 : America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1921 : West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1922 : Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922 : Salt layer find at Winterswijk
1923 : 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
1926 : British general strike-3 million workers support miners
1926 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1926 : US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
1929 : Prussia bans anti-fascists
1932 : 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
1933 : 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1934 : Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours
1936 : NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1938 : Concentration camp at Flossenbrg goes into use
1938 : Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins
1938 : Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
1938 : at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941
1941 : -4] German air raid on Liverpool
1942 : Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 : Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1942 : Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
1942 : Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1943 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
1943 : Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
1943 : US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
1944 : "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
1944 : Meat rationing ends in US
1945 : 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 : Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1945 : British troop join in Rangoon
1945 : German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1946 : International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1947 : Japan forms a constitutional democracy
1948 : Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
1949 : 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1951 : Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
1951 : NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
1952 : "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
1952 : 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1953 : WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 : Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims "Freedom to Read"
1954 : KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
1954 : WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 : "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
1956 : A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1956 : Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella," premieres in NYC
1958 : WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
1959 : Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
1960 : Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in NYC
1961 : Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
1962 : & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
1962 : Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train
1963 : Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
1963 : Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
1965 : 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1965 : 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
1965 : Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1965 : Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (LA Calif)
1965 : KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1965 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1966 : WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 : Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
1968 : Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
1969 : "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 perfs
1971 : All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1971 : Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 : National Public Radio begins programming
1971 : Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1971 : Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1973 : Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out
1973 : KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
1976 : Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
1976 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
1978 : "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
1979 : 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1979 : Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
1979 : Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London
1980 : Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR
1981 : "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1981 : "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
1982 : ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
1982 : NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1982 : Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1983 : Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
1983 : Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983 : US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1985 : Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
1986 : Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
1986 : Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR
1986 : NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
1987 : "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
1987 : Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
1988 : 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
1988 : Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
1991 : 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd
1991 : Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
1991 : only to Gunsmoke
1992 : Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
1992 : Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
1992 : NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
1993 : "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 perfs
1994 : 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
1994 : D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1994 : US space probe Clementine launched
1995 : "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
1995 : Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1995 : David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
1996 : Martin Moxon & Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks v Glam
1997 : ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen

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