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- 1010 Death - Ansfried 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69
- 1294 Death - Jan I duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
- 1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
- 1410 Death - Alexander V [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies
- 1442 Death - Engelbert I Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
- 1446 Birth - Margaretha English princess/duchess of Bourgondie
- 1455 Birth - Joo II the perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews
- 1455 Jews flee Spain
- 1469 Birth - Niccol Machiavelli Italy, politician/writer (The Prince)
- 1481 Death - Mohammed II [Ftih], sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies
- 1491 Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of Joo I.
- 1494 Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
- 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 - Bartholomaeus a Martyribus [Fernandez], primate of Portugal
- 1515 Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
- 1535 Birth - Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori Italian painter/carpet designer
- 1567 Death - Leonhard Paminger composer, dies at 72
- 1614 Death - Sasbout Vosmeer Roman Catholic theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66
- 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
- 1647 Birth - John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes poet (Bellone aen bant)
- 1649 Birth - Johann Valentin Meder composer
- 1654 Bridge at Rowley MA begins charging tolls for animals
- 1654 Death - Franois van Kinschot treasurer-general/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77
- 1660 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
- 1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
- 1678 French conquering fleet at Curaçao, 1200 die
- 1691 Birth - Carolus van der Abeele Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction l'amour)
- 1692 Birth - Jan J Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51)
- 1703 Death - Eglon van de Down still-life painter, dies
- 1704 Death - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59
- 1707 Death - Michiel de Swaen South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53
- 1708 Birth - Johann Adolph Scheibe German music theroist/composer
- 1715 "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, UK for almost 900 years).
- 1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
- 1722 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris France
- 1729 Birth - Florian Leopold Gassmann composer
- 1737 Birth - Friedrich Schwindl composer
- 1737 Death - Abraham Patras Governor-General of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65
- 1742 Birth - Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz composer
- 1744 Birth - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis composer
- 1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
- 1752 Birth - Braz Francisco de Lima composer
- 1758 Death - Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini] Pope (1740-58), dies at 83
- 1764 Birth - Elisabeth PMH princess of France/son of king Louis XVI
- 1764 Death - Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53
- 1765 Thr first US medical college opens in Philadelphia
- 1773 Birth - Giuseppe Acerbi Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
- 1774 Death - Heinrich A Fouqu Prussian general (7 year war), dies at 76
- 1783 Death - Pieter Valck(x) South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49
- 1791 The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Sejm.
- 1792 Death - Carlo Zuccari composer, dies at 87
- 1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city
- 1802 Washington, D C is incorporated as a city
- 1802 Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
- 1808 Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
- 1808 Goya's "Executions of the 3rd of May"
- 1808 Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Prncipe Po hill.
- 1810 Lord Byron swam the Hellespont* this day. It is a 40 mi. (64 km) long, 1-5 mi. (1.6-8 km) wide strait between European and Asian Turkey
- 1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont
- 1811 Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk purchases 300,000 sq km of Manitoba from the Hudson's Bay Company for a Red River colony named to be named Assiniboia.
- 1815 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
- 1815 Birth - Hermanus W Witteveen Dutch theologist
- 1815 Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
- 1816 Birth - Montgomery Cunningham Meigs Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
- 1819 Birth - Nicola De Giosa composer
- 1822 Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France)
- 1826 Birth - Charles XV Louis E King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
- 1830 The first regular steam train passenger service starts
- 1837 The University of Athens is founded. It is the oldest university in the eastern Mediterranean.
- 1839 Death - Ferdinando Paer composer, dies at 67
- 1841 Death - Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74
- 1844 Birth - Edouard A Drumont French anti-semitic journalist
- 1844 Birth - Richard D'Oyly Carte England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
- 1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
- 1845 The first black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts)
- 1849 Birth - Jacob Riis Denmark, reporter (New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun)
- 1849 The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
- 1851 Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire; 30 die
- 1854 Death - William Beale composer, dies at 70
- 1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
- 1856 Death - Adolfo Fumagalli composer, dies at 27
- 1856 Death - Adolphe Charles Adam French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52
- 1859 Birth - Andy Adams US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
- 1860 Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1861 Death - Anthony Philip Heinrich composer, dies at 80
- 1861 General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
- 1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
- 1863 Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights)
- 1863 Battle of Salem Church VA
- 1863 Death - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35
- 1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria LA: Confederate assault
- 1867 Birth - Jack Hearne cricketer (cousin of George & Alec 12 Tests for England)
- 1867 Birth - Valre-Gille Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre)
- 1868 Death - Olof Wilhelm Udden composer, dies at 68
- 1873 Birth - Nikolay N Tcherepnin St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs
- 1873 Birth - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Denmark)
- 1874 Birth - Franois Coty Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
- 1876 Birth - Bert Hopkins cricketer (Australian pace bowler of the 1900's)
- 1876 Birth - John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer cricketer (Sussex)
- 1881 Death - Josip Jurcic Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
- 1886 Birth - Marcel Dupr French organist/composer
- 1886 M A Maclean elected first mayor of Vancouver British Columbia
- 1887 In the Sonora, Mexico region a 7.4 earthquake ruptured the Pitaycachi fault
- 1890 Birth - B Traven writer
- 1892 Birth - Beulah Bondi Chicago IL, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
- 1892 Birth - Sir George Thomson demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
- 1893 Birth - Hope Landin Minneapolis MN
- 1893 Death - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal composer, dies at 73
- 1895 Birth - Earnest Kantorowicz German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
- 1895 Birth - Gabriel Chevallier French author (Le petit gnral)
- 1895 Birth - Zoltan Korda Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)
- 1897 Birth - V K Krishna Menon India, nationalist/statesman
- 1898 Birth - Golda Meir [Meyerson] Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
- 1898 Birth - Septima Poinsette Clark civil rights activist/educator
- 1898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio (San Fransisco)
- 1899 Birth - Aline MacMahon McKeesport PA, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
- 1901 Birth - Gino Cervi Bologna Italy, actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja)
- 1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville FL
- 1901 Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, FL.
- 1902 Birth - Hugo Friedhofer composer
- 1902 Birth - Jack Larue New York NY, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)
- 1902 Birth - Seton I Miller Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul)
- 1902 Birth - Walter Slezak Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)
- 1902 Death - David R Capriles Curaaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64
- 1903 Birth - Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) Tacoma WA, crooner/actor (White Christmas, Going My Way)
- 1904 Birth - Charles "Red" Ruffing New York Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
- 1904 Birth - John Breeden San Fransisco CA, actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street)
- 1905 Birth - Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach duke of Bavaria
- 1905 Birth - Sebastian Lewis Shaw actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste)
- 1906 Birth - Mary Astor Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific)
- 1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
- 1907 Birth - Earl Wilson Rockford OH, columnist (Midnight Earl)
- 1910 Birth - Alceo Galliera composer
- 1911 Birth - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson trumpeter
- 1913 Birth - Earl Blackwell Atlanta GA, author (Celebrity Register)
- 1913 Birth - William M Inge US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
- 1915 Birth - Evencio Castellanos composer
- 1916 Birth - Henry Barbosa Gonzalez San Antonio TX, (Representative-D-TX, 1961- )
- 1916 Birth - Pierre Emmanuel French poet (Sodome)
- 1916 Death - Pdraic Pearse Irish nationalist, executed by British firing squad
- 1916 Easter Rising leaders are executed in Dublin.
- 1917 Birth - James Penberthy composer
- 1917 Death - Norman Callaway New South Wales bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
- 1917 Lt. Robert G. Combe (27th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Corss at Acheville, France
- 1917 Second attack on Bullecourt sector of Hindenburg Line in France
- 1919 Afghánistán Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
- 1919 America's first passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
- 1919 Birth - Betty Comden Brooklyn NY, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing)
- 1919 Birth - Pete Seeger New York NY, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
- 1920 Birth - Sugar Ray Robinson [Walter Smith] middleweight/welterweight boxer (champion)
- 1921 Birth - Vasco dos Santos Gonalves Portuguese leftist colonel
- 1921 West Virginia imposes first state sales tax
- 1922 Birth - Marina Svetlova ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo)
- 1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
- 1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk
- 1923 Birth - Ralph M Hall (Representative-D-TX, 1981- )
- 1923 Thr first nonstop transcontinental flight (New York-San Diego) completed
- 1924 Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber
- 1924 Visitor posting - Dolores Schey birthstone emerald birth sign taurus - USA
- 1924 Birth - Mary Carver Los Angeles CA, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
- 1925 Birth - Nina Bara Buenos Aires Argentina, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
- 1925 Death - Clment Ader French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84
- 1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
- 1926 Death - Napoleon V Bonaparte French pretender to the throne, dies at 63
- 1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-months after leaving), stay until 1933
- 1927 Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, NY patented the electric sign flasher.
- 1928 Birth - James Brown Augusta GA, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants)
- 1928 Birth - Jeanne Bal Santa Monica CA, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
- 1928 Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
- 1929 Birth - Hendrik L van Beek Dutch Vice-Admiral
- 1929 Birth - Jaharna Imam Bangladeshi writer/political activist
- 1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists
- 1930 Birth - David Evatt Tunley composer
- 1931 Birth - Alex Cord actor (The Dead are Alive)
- 1931 Birth - Joseph Lichtman Layton dancer
- 1931 Death - Frank Hoyt Losey composer, dies at 59
- 1931 Death - Otto Winter-Hjelm composer, dies at 93
- 1932 24 tourists begin first air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switzerland)
- 1932 Death - Anton Wildgans Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at 51
- 1933 Birth - Collie Smith cricketer (exciting West Indies all-rounder all too briefly)
- 1934 Birth - Georg Kroll composer
- 1935 Birth - Donald P Hodel Portland OR, US Secretary of Interior (1985-89)
- 1936 Birth - Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey] Madras India, singer (After The Lovin', Release Me, Quando Quando Quando)
- 1936 French People's Front wins elections
- 1937 Birth - Frankie Valli [Castelluccio] Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
- 1937 Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
- 1938 Concentration camp at Flossenbürg goes into use
- 1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
- 1938 Viewers of W2XBS-TV (now WCBS-TV) watched the first book review show
- 1939 Belly up to the bar for this one. " Beer Barrel Polka", one of the standards of American music, was recorded by The Andrews Sisters for Decca Records. Patti, Maxine and LaVerne turned this song into a giant hit.
- 1939 Birth - Jonathan David Harvey English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)
- 1939 Birth - Jos Torres US, boxer (Olympics)
- 1939 Birth - Samantha Eggar London England, actress (Anna and the King, Collector)
- 1939 Death - [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener German general, dies at 71
- 1941 Birth - Nona Gaprindasvili USSR, world women's chess champion (1962-78)
- 1941 German air raid on Liverpool
- 1942 Birth - Lynn Farleigh Bristol England, actress (Lovers of Their Time)
- 1942 Birth - Vera Cslavsk-Odlozilova Czechoslovakia, gymnast (Olympics-gold-1964, 68)
- 1942 Death - Johan H Westerveld Lieutenant-Colonel/leader Order Service, executed
- 1942 Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
- 1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
- 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
- 1942 Nazis execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
- 1943 Birth - John Costello historian
- 1943 Death - Leslie Heward composer, dies at 45
- 1943 Squadron Leader, Leonard Henry Trent, 487 (NZ) Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over Amsterdam Holland
- 1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
- 1943 US first armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
- 1944 "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
- 1944 Birth - Ian Peter Leslie Smith journalist
- 1944 Birth - Peter Staples rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
- 1944 Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine
- 1944 Meat rationing ends in US
- 1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
- 1945 Birth - Sadiq Mohammad cricketer (attacking Pakistan opening batsman 1969-81)
- 1945 British troop join in Rangoon
- 1945 Death - Louis L H de Visser Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66
- 1945 First Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar.
- 1945 First Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
- 1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
- 1945 Rangoon taken by 26th Indian Division
- 1946 Birth - Greg Gumbel sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
- 1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
- 1946 World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- 1947 Birth - Doug Henning Fort Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
- 1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
- 1947 New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- 1948 U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
- 1949 Birth - Albert Sacco Jr Boston MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
- 1949 Birth - Ron Wyden (Representative-D-OR, 1981- )
- 1949 The first firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
- 1949 Visitor posting - BILL MANSFIELD IS BORN
- 1950 Birth - Mary Hopkin South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
- 1951 Birth - Christopher Cross [Geppert] San Antonio TX, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
- 1951 London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
- 1951 The Festival of Britain opens.
- 1952 "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
- 1952 Birth - Allen Wells England, 100 meter dash (Olympics-gold-1980)
- 1952 The first airplane to land at the geographic location of the North Pole did so on this day.
- 1952 The first landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
- 1952 U.S. Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the North Pole.
- 1953 Birth - Bruce Hall Champaign IL, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon)
- 1953 Birth - Van McLain rocker (Shooting Star)
- 1955 Birth - David Hookes cricketer (dashing Australian LHB, S Aussie stalwart)
- 1955 Birth - Steve Jones English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy)
- 1955 Death - Philips C Visser explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
- 1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
- 1956 The judo World Championships are first held.
- 1957 Birth - Cactus Moser Montrose CO, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
- 1957 Birth - Rod Langway Formosa, NHL defenseman (Montral Canadiens, Washington Capitals)
- 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner Walter O’ Malley agreed to move the team from Flatbush to sunny Los Angeles. Initially, only exhibition games were held at the L.A. Coliseum
- 1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
- 1958 Death - Frank Foster cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies
- 1958 Visitor posting - Sopheap Young born - Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- 1958 In Brockville, Ontario a Trust company is robbed of $3.3 million dollars in bonds and securities.
- 1959 Birth - Ben Elton London UK, actor (Stark, Friday Night Live)
- 1959 Birth - David Ball Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell)
- 1959 The first Grammy Awards are announced.
- 1960 Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks" premieres in NYC
- 1960 The Anne Frank House opened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- 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.
- 1961 Death - Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty French philosopher, dies at 53
- 1962 A freight train derail and rail line track, where collided with 6 cars commuter train carrying bound Toride, when crush passenger move to safety place, another commuter train carrying bound Ueno head-collided and crash at Mikawajima station, Joban Line, downtown Tokyo, Japan. At least 160 killed, another 290 injured.
- 1962 Birth - Anthony Gilligan Penrith New South Wales, Australasia golfer
- 1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
- 1963 Birth - Jeff Hornacek NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
- 1963 Over 1,600 residents of Hay River and Fort Simpson airlifted to safety after towns struck by flooding; the townsites will be moved to higher ground.
- 1964 Birth - Ron Hextall Winnipeg, NHL goalie (Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders)
- 1964 Death - Diana Wynyard dies at 58
- 1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
- 1965 Death - Howard Spring British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
- 1965 Death - Otto Forst de Battaglia Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75
- 1965 In El Salvador a 6.0 earthquake left 125 persons dead, about 500 injured, and an estimated 48,000 homeless
- 1965 The first use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite
- 1966 Birth - Paul Stevenson Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
- 1966 Death - Wylie Watson dies at 77
- 1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University
- 1968 Birth - Deborah Caprioglio Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter)
- 1968 Birth - Jay Darlington London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker)
- 1968 Death - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev composer, dies at 86
- 1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International
- 1969 Birth - Karen Kraft San Mateo CA, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
- 1969 Death - Imre Vincze composer, dies at 42
- 1970 Birth - Alexia Dechaume-Ballert La Rochelle France, tennis star (1992 Australia)
- 1970 Birth - Ted Crowley Concord MA, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
- 1970 Death - Candelario Huizar composer, dies at 82
- 1971 Anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe begin four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.
- 1971 Birth - James Roberson defensive end (Tennessee Oilers)
- 1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
- 1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
- 1972 Birth - Brett Hayman Australian rower (Olympics-96)
- 1972 Birth - Josh Taves defensive end (New England Patriots)
- 1972 Birth - Vyacheslav Kozlov Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward (Detroit Red Wings)
- 1972 Death - Bruce Cabot actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
- 1972 Death - Dan Blocker actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
- 1972 Death - Les Harvey rocker, dies
- 1973 Birth - Dominique Monami Verviers Belgium, tennis star
- 1973 Birth - Michel Traveller soccer player (Ajax)
- 1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 meters), topped out
- 1973 The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.
- 1975 Death - Samuel Gonard chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78
- 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Mud - Oh Boy
- 1976 Death - David Bruce dies at 62
- 1976 Death - Ernie Nevers college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72
- 1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
- 1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
- 1978 Death - Wim van Doorne Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71
- 1978 Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston
- 1978 West Indies all set to lose cricket test vs Australia at Kingston till riots end game
- 1979 Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher to become United Kingdom's first female prime minister as the Labour government is ousted in parliamentary elections.
- 1979 Death - Erin O'Brien-Moore actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76
- 1979 The Yukon River submerges Dawson under more than two metres of water; downtown declared a disaster area.
- 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
- 1980 Visitor posting - May 3, 1980 Joseph John H. was born in Philadelphia
- 1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
- 1982 Death - Helmut Dantine actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
- 1982 Death - Hugh Beaumont actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
- 1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
- 1983 Death - Vaughn Taylor actor (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 72
- 1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
- 1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
- 1984 Visitor posting - May 3, 1984 George Andrew Parks is born amid tornadoes in Gainesville, Ga
- 1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
- 1986 Death - Robert Alda actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
- 1986 Horse racing legend Bill Shoemaker became the oldest jockey to win the the Kentucky Derby.
- 1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
- 1986 Twenty-one people are killed and 41 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.
- 1987 Death - Dicky Fuller cricketer (one Test for West Indies 1935, one run, 0-12), dies
- 1987 Death - Yolande Christina Dalida dies at 54
- 1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
- 1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs FL
- 1988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
- 1989 Death - Christine Jorgensen 1st transsexual, dies at 62
- 1989 Death - Muriel Ostriche dies
- 1989 Fenerbahce beats Galatasaray 4-3 coming back from 3-0.
- 1990 Death - Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov] patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies at 79
- 1991 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
- 1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
- 1991 Brian Mulroney 1939- promises 500-job GST processing centre for Summerside to help community hard hit by closing of Canadian Forces Base.
- 1991 Death - Gerrit Mik child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies
- 1991 Death - Jersy Kosinski author (Being There), dies at 57
- 1991 Death - Margaret Tallichet actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies
- 1991 The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
- 1992 Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
- 1992 Visitor posting - May 3, 1992 Happy Birthday Darleen, from Aunt Melody
- 1992 Death - Elizabeth Lennox radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98
- 1992 Death - George Murphy (Senator-R-CA, 1965-71)/actor, dies of Leukemia at 89
- 1992 Death - Peter Bruni dies of heart failure at 60
- 1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances
- 1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
- 1994 Death - Gustaaf baron van Hemert Dingshof mayor of Maarn, dies at 78
- 1994 Death - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
- 1994 Death - Milford Dolliole pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
- 1994 Death - Richard Scarry author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74
- 1996 Death - Jack Weston actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71
- 1996 Death - Timothy Gullikson tennis player/coach, dies at 45
- 1996 Visitor posting - Tanner L marquez-pence born. - USA
- 1996 In Western Nei Mongol, China a 6.0 earthquake killed at least 18 people, 300 injured and extensive damage in the Baotou area.
- 1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
- 1998 RaiLink-MacKenzie Northern takes over the operation of the CN line from Smith, AB to Hay River, NWT.
- 1999 Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado killing 42 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak.
- 1999 Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time.
- 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.
- 2005 The first elected government in the history of Iraq is sworn in.
- 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.
- 2007 4 year old Madeleine McCann disappears from Praia da Luz, Portugal.
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