3 May
Christopher Columbus
Pedro Alvares Cabral
Bing Crosby
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| 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 | ||
| 1469 Niccolo dei Machiavelli, Italian author and statesman, born. He wrote "The Prince," a guide to the use of power. "Machiavellian" has come to mean cunning and unscrupulous. |
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| 1494 Christopher Columbus first sighted the island later to be named Jamaica | ||
| 1494 Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago" | ||
| 1500 The Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral landed in Brazil and claimed it for his country. The land had been visited by Spanish navigator Vicente Yanes Pinzon in January but the discovery was not followed up. | ||
| 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 The Second Civil War in France ended with the signing of the Treaty of Loudun, granting an amnesty to the rebellious Prince of Conde. | ||
| 1621 Francis Bacon accused of bribery | ||
| 1624 Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama | Christopher Columbus |
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| 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 Curacao, 1200 die | ||
| 1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" | ||
| 1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht | ||
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1747 In the War of Austrian Succession, the British roundly defeated the French at the first Battle of Cape Finisterre. | |
| 1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia | ||
| 1791 King Stanislaw Augustus signed a liberal bill of rights reforming gentry-ruled Poland and setting up a constitutional monarchy. It was only the second written constitution in the world after that of the United States. | ||
| 1808 Goya's "Executions of the 3rd of May" | ||
| 1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont | ||
| 1815 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples | ||
| 1822 Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France) | ||
| 1826 Charles XV, King of Norway and Sweden, born. | ||
| 1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts | ||
| 1841 New Zealand was formally proclaimed a British colony | ||
| 1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte born. An operatic impresario, he founded the Savoy Theatre in London, home of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. | ||
| 1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China | ||
| 1851 San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die | ||
| 1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens |
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| 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 | ||
| 1874 Francois Coty, French industrialist and perfume manufacturer, was born. One of the wealthiest men in France, he acquired several newspapers, including Le Figaro, to advance his views. | ||
| 1895 The territories owned by the British South Africa Company south of the Zambezi were given the name of Rhodesia. | ||
| 1898 Golda Meir, politician who became Israeli prime minister in 1969 at the age of 70, was born as Golda Mabovitch in Kiev. | Bing Crosby |
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| 1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida | ||
| 1903 Bing Crosby(Harry Lillis Crosby) Tacoma Wash, singer was born | ||
| 1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey | ||
| 1906 U.S. film star Mary Astor, who played in "The Maltese Falcon" and "Don Juan," was born as Lucille Vasconcellos Langhanke. | ||
| 1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain | ||
| 1919 America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City) | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1936 French People's Front wins elections | ||
| 1936 Joe DiMaggio made his major-league debut, got 3 hits | ||
| 1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" | ||
| 1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain | ||
| 1939 Maxim Litvinov was removed as Soviet foreign minister and replaced by Vyacheslav Molotov. | ||
| 1942 Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star | ||
| 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter | ||
| 1945 British troop join in Rangoon | ||
| 1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed | ||
| 1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg | ||
| 1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins | ||
| 1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy | ||
| 1951 In Britain, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth inaugurated the Festival of Britain on London's South Bank. | ||
| 1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole | ||
| 1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000') | ||
| 1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) | ||
| 1965 Cambodia broke off diplomatic relations with the United States after a weekly magazine carried an article felt to be derogatory to the royal family. | ||
| 1968 French students and police clashed violently in Paris, the start of a month of disturbances and strikes that threatened the rule of General Charles De Gaulle. | ||
| 1971 Walter Ulbricht retired as First Secretary of the East German Communist Party and was succeeded by Erich Honecker. | ||
| 1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days | ||
| 1972 Bruce Cabot, U.S. film actor who appeared in "King Kong" and later in countless western films, died. | ||
| 1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out | ||
| 1979 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) | ||
| 1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22 | ||
| 1996 Liu Gang, one of the most prominent pro-democracy leaders to flee China, was granted permission to stay in the U.S. | ||
| 1996 delegates from 55 countries agreed at a U.N. conference in Geneva on new rules for landmine use, but rejected an all-out ban. | ||
| 1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue |
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