May 3

Holidays

• Saint Apostle James the Lesser
• Black Madonna of Cz?stochowa Queen and Protector of Poland (since April 1, 1656)
• Antonia and Alexander (martyrs of 313)
• Saint Emily Bicchiere (1238 - 1314
• Saints Eventius and Alexander, Saint Theodulus (martyrs of 119)
• Saint Ansfrid (c. 1008)
• Saint Alexander I
• Saint Apostle Philip
• Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross, aka the Invention of the True Cross.
• Discoflux (Discordianism).
• Constitution Day in Poland and Japan.
• World Press Freedom Day.
• Saint Juvenalis (d. 376)
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Events

• 2019 Sinclair Broadcast Group buys Fox Sports Networks (FSN) from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. Disney was ordered by the U.S. Justice Department to sell FSN as part of its purchase of 21st Century Fox last year due antitrust concerns over its ownership of ESPN Inc. (The New York Times)
• 2018 A Palestinian man was arrested by Israel Defence Forces (IDF) while attempting to damage the security fence around the northern Gaza Strip. He was shot and injured during the arrest, and is now receiving medical treatment at Soroka Medical Center. (The Times of Israel)
• 2017 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): A suicide bombing attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul kills eight civilians and wounds at least 28 people. (Reuters)
• 2016 Syrian Civil War: A rocket attack hits a hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo, killing three civilians. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack was part of a bigger shelling that killed 19 more people. (Al Jazeera)
• 2015 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present): Yemen officials say that at least 20 members of the Arab coalition have landed in Aden on a 'reconnaissance' mission. (AP via UT San Diego)
• 2014 Indian police arrest 29 people after National Democratic Front of Bodoland separatists kill 29 Muslims and burn down homes. (AP via ABC News America)
• 2013 Syrian civil war:: Israeli warplanes bomb a Syrian weapons facility in an overnight attack. (The New York Times)
• 2012 Thirty-four people are killed in raids by gunmen opposed to the burning of a colleague at a cattle market in northern Nigeria. (AP via Google News)
• 2011 Reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden:
• 2010 Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and waging war against India. (AP) (NDTV)
• 2009 Nepalese Prime Minister Prachanda resigns. (BBC)
• 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.
• 2007 British child Madeleine McCann disappears from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
• 2006 Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
• 2005 Two United States Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet jets collide over Iraq while flying a mission in Iraq. The body of one of the pilots is later recovered and an ejected seat was found, but the second one is still missing. (BBC) (Washington Post)
• 2004 The US is starting to lose its dominance in the sciences; "the rest of the world is catching up", according to John E. Jankowski of the National Science Foundation. Scientists from Europe and now other countries are now publishing more papers in major professional journals than scientists from the U.S.. New York Times p.A1.
• 2003 The Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation in New Hampshire, USA, crumbles after heavy rain.
• 2002 A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
• 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.
• 2000 In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 1999 The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 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 is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.
• 1998 Wins Titleholders Golf Championship
• 1997 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3.
• 1996 Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 first wickett Yorks versus Glam.
• 1995 My Thing of Love opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
• 1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins.
• 1993 Kiss of the Spider Woman opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances
• 1992 Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
• 1991 356th and final episode of CBS-TV's second-longest-running series Dallas, second only to Gunsmoke.
• 1988 4,200kg Colombian cocaine is seized at Tarpon Springs, Florida.
• 1987 Mikado closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
• 1986 New York Yankees' Don Mattingly is sixth to hit three sacrifice flies in a game.
• 1985 Date of $5 million check in View to a Kill
• 1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
• 1982 US President Ronald Reagan begins five-minute weekly radio broadcasts.
• 1981 Can-Can closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 1980 Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final HR
• 1979 1st woman Prime Minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
• 1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II.
• 1977 The light aircraft carrier ''HMS Invincible'' is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Elizabeth II.
• 1975 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02.
• 1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 metres), tops out.
• 1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
• 1970 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3.
• 1969 Trumpets of the Lord closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 performances
• 1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International
• 1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University.
• 1966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1965 Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles, California)
• 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational.
• 1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his I have a dream speech
• 1962 Express train crashes into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan).
• 1961 Warren Spahn pitches a two hitter after pitching a no hitter.
• 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.
• 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament.
• 1958 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
• 1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
• 1956 Most Happy Fella opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
• 1954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1952 Call Me Madam closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
• 1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
• 1949 First firing of a US Viking rocket; reaches 80 km.
• 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams.
• 1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy.
• 1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins.
• 1945 German ship Cap Arcona sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
• 1944 Meet Me in St. Louis opens on Broadway
• 1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
• 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.
• 1941 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4.
• 1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
• 1938 Vatican recognizes Francesco Franco as head of Spain.
• 1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind
• 1936 New York Yankees' player Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets three hits.
• 1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
• 1932 24 tourists begin first air-charter holiday (London, England, to Basle, Switzerland).
• 1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists.
• 1928 Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
• 1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
• 1924 Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska
• 1923 First nonstop transcontinental flight (New York-San Diego) completed.
• 1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk.
• 1921 West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
• 1920 A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• 1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain.
• 1916 The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
• 1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
• 1913 Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
• 1909 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2.
• 1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey.
• 1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75.
• 1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville Florida.
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• Frankie Valli
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• Norman Thelwell
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• David H Koch
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• Ron Brown (Scottish politician)
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• John Lewis (pianist)
• Aldo Rossi

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• Alfred Kastler

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• Jean-Marc Roberts

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• Georges-Emmanuel Clancier

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• Julien Guiomar
• Steven Weinberg

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• Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb
• Ryan Dempster

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• Black Sea plane crash
• Ron Eisenberg

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• Gino Cervi

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• May Sarton

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• Paul Banks (singer)
• Zoë Belkin
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• Anna Roosevelt

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• Steffen Schleiermacher
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Famous Deaths

• Jackie Cooper

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• Robert Alda

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• Diana Wynyard

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• Jack Weston

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• Bruce Cabot

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• Narciso Yepes

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• Jerzy Kosinski

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• Anthony Ainley

  British actor (Born 1932).

• John Joseph O'Connor

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• Billy Higgins

  American drummer and educator (d. 2001).

• Margaret Tallichet

  Actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor).

• Peter Bruni

  Dies of heart failure at 60.

• Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof

  Mayor of Maarn, dies at 78.

• Michael Horden

  Actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at...

• Edward Ochab

  Polish Communist politician (Born 1906).

• Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo

  Spanish former Prime Minister (Born...

• David R Capriles Cura?aos director of psychiatric

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• Napoleon V Bonaparte

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• [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener

  German general, dies at age 71.

• Louis L H de Visser

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• Philips C Visser

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• Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty

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• Otto Forst de Battaglia

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• Samuel Gonard

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• Wim van Doorne

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• Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov]

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• Gerrit Mik

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• Elizabeth Lennox

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• Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker

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• Milford Dolliole

  pioneer jazz drummer, dies at age 90.

• Timothy Gullikson

  tennis player/coach, dies at age 45.

• Leaders of the Easter Rising\ \ Tom Clarke

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• Charlie Soong

  Christian missionary.

• Theodore Pilette

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• Mohammed Abdel Wahab

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• Sebastien Enjolras

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• Frank Hoyt Losey

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• Evgeny Svetlanov

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• Ton Lutz

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• Guenter Wendt

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• Ram Shewalkar

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• David Bruce

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• Steve Chiasson

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 Kendrick Lamar - Humble.
• 2016 Desiigner - Panda
• 2015 Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 P!nk - Just Give Me A Reason
• 2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Katy Perry - E.T.
• 2010 B.o.B. - Nothin' On You
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• 2008 Lil Wayne - Lollipop
• 2007 Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
• 2006 Daniel Powter - Bad Day
• 2005 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Ashanti - Foolish
• 2001 Janet - All For You
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
• 1998 Next - Too Close
• 1997 The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
• 1996 Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby
• 1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
• 1994 Ace Of Base - The Sign
• 1993 Silk - Freak Me
• 1992 Kris Kross - Jump
• 1991 Amy Grant - Baby Baby
• 1990 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
• 1989 Madonna - Like A Prayer
• 1988 Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well
• 1987 Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms
• 1986 Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
• 1985 USA for Africa - We Are The World
• 1984 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Beat It
• 1982 Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire - Titles
• 1981 Sheena Easton - Morning Train (Nine To Five)
• 1980 Blondie - Call Me
• 1979 Peaches & Herb - Reunited
• 1978 Bee Gees - Night Fever
• 1977 Eagles - Hotel California
• 1976 Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow
• 1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
• 1974 Grand Funk - The Loco-Motion
• 1973 Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
• 1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
• 1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
• 1970 The Jackson 5 - ABC
• 1969 The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
• 1968 Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
• 1967 Nancy Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
• 1966 The Mamas & The Papas - Monday, Monday
• 1965 Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
• 1964 The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
• 1963 Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
• 1962 The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
• 1961 Del Shannon - Runaway
• 1960 Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
• 1959 The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
• 1958 David Seville - Witch Doctor
• 1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Gotye Featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Stone Temple Pilots - Between The Lines