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Monday, May 4, 2026
Special "May the Fourth Be With You" Post
May the Fourth Be With You - May 4th is Star Wars Day
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU...

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May 4th: This Day in History
On this day in 1256, the Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issued a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. In 1303 on this day, the Flemings conquered Middelburg. Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics on this day in 1415 at the Council of Constance. On this day in 1471, the Yorkists of King Edward IV defeated the Landcastrians of ex-Queen Margaretha in England, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in the War of the Roses. Christopher Columbus landed in what is now Jamaica on this day in 1494. Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on what is now the island of Manhattan Island on this day in 1626. Native Americans later famously sold the island for $24 worth of cloth and brass buttons. Minuit became the Director-General of New Netherlands, as New York City came to be called. The Battle at Etampes was fought on this day in 1652, with the French army under Turenne defeating Fronde rebels. The municipality of Ilagan was founded on this day in 1686 in the Philippines. George F Handel's opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premiered in London on this day in 1728. On this day in 1776, Rhode Island declared its independence from England two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted. In 1795 on this day during the French Revolution, thousands of rioters entered jails in Lyons, France, and massacred 99 Jacobin prisoners. Napoleon Bonaparte disembarked at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean on this day in 1814, during his first exile. In 1862 during the American Civil War in Yorktown, Virginia, General McClellan halted his troop before town as it was filled with armed torpedoes left by Confederate Brigadier General Gabrial Rains. On this day in 1910, the Canadian Currency Act received Royal Assent. The Canadian Parliament passed a measure for the creation of Royal Canadian Navy on this day in 1910. Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British on this day in 1930. On this day in 1945 in the very late stages of the European part of World War II, German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrendered. The Hague Court of Justice convicted Nazi Hans Rauter of the SS to death on this day in 1948. CORE started freedom rides on this day in 1961 as thirteen civil rights activists, dubbed "Freedom Riders," began a bus trip through the South from Washington, DC, and heading for New Orleans, Louisiana. In on this day in 1961 during the apartheid era of white minority rule in South Africa, ANC leader John Nkadimeng was arrested. The Soviet government signed an accord to build a Fiat factory in the USSR on this day in 1966. On this day in 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on unarmed students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded. In 1979 on this day, Margaret Thatcher was elected to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Oliver North, a former White House aide, was convicted of shredding documents and two other crimes on this day in 1989. He was acquitted of nine other charges stemming from his role relating to the Iran-Contra affair. The three convictions were later overturned on appeal. On this day in 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord granting Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. On this day in 1998, a federal judge in Sacramento, California, handed the "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years. The sentence was under a plea agreement that spared Kaczynski the death penalty. The Scottish National Party won the Scottish general election on this day in 2007, becoming the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time in history.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
• On this day in 1256, the Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issued a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
• In 1303 on this day, the Flemings conquered Middelburg.
• Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics on this day in 1415 at the Council of Constance.
• On this day in 1471, the Yorkists of King Edward IV defeated the Landcastrians of ex-Queen Margaretha in England, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in the War of the Roses.
1493 - Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides the Americas between Spain and Portugal
• Christopher Columbus landed in what is now Jamaica on this day in 1494.
1540 - Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1572 - Veere sides with Geuzen (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and butons.
1634 - Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
• The Battle at Etampes was fought on this day in 1652, with the French army under Turenne defeating Fronde rebels.
• The municipality of Ilagan was founded on this day in 1686 in the Philippines.
1715 - French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella (Paris)
• George F Handel's opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premiered in London on this day in 1728.
1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel
• On this day in 1776, Rhode Island declared its independence from England two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
1780 - American Academy of Arts and Science founded
1780 - Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby
1783 - Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
• In 1795 on this day during the French Revolution, thousands of rioters entered jails in Lyons, France, and massacred 99 Jacobin prisoners.
1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1805 - Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
• Napoleon Bonaparte disembarked at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean on this day in 1814, during his first exile.
1814 - Bourbon reign restored in France
1814 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
1818 - Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1839 - The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
1843 - Great-Britain annexes Natal
1846 - US state Michigan ends death penalty
1847 - NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1851 - First major San Francisco fire
1858 - War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1859 - The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
1861 - At Gretna Louisiana, one of first guns of Rebel navy is cast
1862 - -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia
• In 1862 during the American Civil War in Yorktown, Virginia, General McClellan halted his troop before town as it was filled with armed torpedoes left by Confederate Brigadier General Gabrial Rains.
1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
1863 - End of Chancellorsville - Union army is defeated and withdraws
1864 - -16] actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia
1864 - Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan and begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1865 - Battle of Citronville, Alabama; Richard Taylor surrenders
1865 - Battle of Mobile, Alabama
1866 - Woodward's Gardens opens to public
1869 - The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.
1871 - First baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1878 - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
1886 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter patented the gramophone. It was the first practical phonograph.
1886 - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen The Haymarket Square riot broke out as a result of a labor demonstration.
1888 - Italy and Spain sign military covenant
1893 - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1896 - First edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)
1896 - Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
1897 - 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12.5
1897 - Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1898 - 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
1899 - 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1904 - Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
1905 - Belmont Park opened in suburban Long Island. It opened as the largest race track in the world.
• On this day in 1910, the Canadian Currency Act received Royal Assent.
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• The Canadian Parliament passed a measure for the creation of Royal Canadian Navy on this day in 1910.
• Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British on this day in 1930.
• On this day in 1945 in the very late stages of the European part of World War II, German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrendered.
1946 - A two-day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay ended. Five people were killed.
1946 - 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6
1946 - Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped
• The Hague Court of Justice convicted Nazi Hans Rauter of the SS to death on this day in 1948.
• CORE started freedom rides on this day in 1961 as thirteen civil rights activists, dubbed "Freedom Riders," began a bus trip through the South from Washington, DC, and heading for New Orleans, Louisiana.
1961 - Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
• In on this day in 1961 during the apartheid era of white minority rule in South Africa, ANC leader John Nkadimeng was arrested.
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8
1963 - Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
1964 - "Another World" and "As the World Turns" premieres on TV
1964 - 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
1964 - KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
1965 - Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record
• The Soviet government signed an accord to build a Fiat factory in the USSR on this day in 1966.
• On this day in 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on unarmed students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.
1979 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1980 - Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
1980 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament
1980 - White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming first lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
1981 - The Federal Reserve Board raised its discount rate to 14%.
1981 - Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
1981 - Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
1981 - Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
1982 - British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1982 - Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
1982 - Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
1983 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1984 - Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1985 - 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2
1986 - President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1987 - Live models were used for the first time in Playtex bra ads.
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oliver North, a former White House aide, was convicted of shredding documents and two other crimes on this day in 1989. He was acquitted of nine other charges stemming from his role relating to the Iran-Contra affair. The three convictions were later overturned on appeal.
1994 - Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1996 - 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01
1996 - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel
1996 - Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers first AL team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
1997 - Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open
1997 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship
1999 - Several severe tornadoes hit the Midwest U.S. overnight. At least 45 people were killed.
1999 - Manuel Babbitt was executed for killing Leah Schendel in 1980. Babbitt had received a purple heart for his injuries in Vietnam while on death row.
2000 - Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
2001 - The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
2002 - Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as a Giant, leading his team to a 3-0 win over Cincinnati. Bonds is the first player to hit 400 homers for one team and 100 with another
2003 - Idaho Gem was born. He was the first member of the horse family to be cloned.
2007 - Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado.
• The Scottish National Party won the Scottish general election on this day in 2007, becoming the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time in history.
2010 - Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" sold for $106.5 million.
2012 - 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
These are the online sources that I used for the completion of this blog entry:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rabin-and-arafat-sign-accord-for-palestinian-self-rule
http://www.historyorb.com/events/may/4
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/may04.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/May-4
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Anthony Scaramucci Breaks Down the Three Main Factors He Sees Having Contributed to the Decline of the United States
Saw this brief video which Anthony Scaramucci posted.
While I do not agree with everything that he has to say. Not all that surprising, actually, given that he was, however briefly, a member of Trump's first administration.
That said, he has proven to be more thoughtful and intelligent than I had first supposed. He has some interesting insights and commentaries.
And in this video, he discusses what he feels were the three major factors which strongly contributed to the decline of the United States.
Take a look:
3 Steps to America's Collapse I Anthony Scaramucci
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KBK5AHUFWNo
Weekend Humor: George Carlin, Among Others, Predicted the Dark Turn the Country Would Take
Sometimes, in some very important ways, it feels like the world is going backwards. Like things just systematically grow worse and worse. Mostly, it seems that people are responsible for this false order of things. And nowhere does that seem to be happening more completely or faster than right here in the good old US of A.
Then you might get around to thinking about some people from the past who never lived to see the days grow figuratively darker. In some cases, these same people seemed instinctively to sense the dark turn that was coming. I specifically am thinking of three people: Carl Sagan, Frank Zappa, and comedian George Carlin.
Boy I miss those guys.
Today, in this particular blog entry, I wanted to focus on George Carlin. Because he, like the other two guys, foresaw the nightmare to come. Unlike the other two, he did not beat around the bush about it. The world was going to become a nightmare in the future.
Why?
Because people are stupid.
The other two were a bit more polite about it, and perhaps hinted at it. Meanwhile, Carlin screamed it out, almost shouted it from the rooftops.
Yet indeed, as the title of the video (see link below) suggests, we collectively did not listen.
Man, I wish we had.
Take a look and see what you think:
George Carlin Was Right About This All Along...But Nobody Listened!
https://youtu.be/QqlT59SA8xA?si=CCcO9msBhAgz_5Ts
George Carlin Was Right About This All Along...But Nobody Listened!
May 3rd: This Day in History
• The Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge was fought on this day in 1382.
• Jews fled Spain on this day in 1455.
• In 1491 on this day, Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga was baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1494 - Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
1512 - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateran at St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome
• In 1515 on this day, the Portuguese fleet occupied Ormuz in the Persian Gulf:
1568 - French forces in Florida slaughtered hundreds of Spanish.
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
• Johannes Hevelius observes the third transit of Mercury ever to be seen on this day in 1661.
1678 - French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die
• Edmund Halley observed a total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" on this day in 1715.
• Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premiered in Paris on this day in 1722.
1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
1765 - 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
1791 - The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city on this day in 1802.
1808 - Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"
1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
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
1837 - The University of Athens is founded.
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
• On this day in 1849, the May Uprising in Dresden began. It was- the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
1851 - Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
1855 - Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1855 - Macon B. Allen became the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts.
1859 - France declared war on Austria.
1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1861 - Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan for the North against the South in US Civil War
• In 1861 on this day during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln asked for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen.
1863 - Battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights)
1863 - Battle of Salem Church, VA
1864 - Third day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1886 - M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia
• Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Works on this day in 1888.
1898 - Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
1900 - 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06.25
1901 - Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
1902 - 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
1903 - AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo
• British-controlled Egypt took control over the Sinai peninsula from the Ottoman Empire on this day in 1906.
1909 - 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
1916 - Irish nationalist leaders Padraic Pearse and two others were executed in Dublin by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.
1917 - First performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1919 - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 - America's first passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
1922 - Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922 - Salt layer find at Winterswijk
1923 - First nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
1924 - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber.
1926 - The revival of Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opened in New York.
1926 - British trade unions began a general strike-3 million workers support miners
1926 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1926 - US marines landed in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), and stayed until 1933
1927 - Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, NY, patented the electric sign flasher.
1928 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1929 - Prussia bans anti-fascists
1932 - 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
1933 - The U.S. Mint was under the direction of a woman for the first time when Nellie Ross took the position.
1936 - French People's Front wins elections
1936 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 - Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for "Gone With the Wind"
1938 - Concentration camp at Flossenburg went into use
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
1938 - Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
1939 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1941 - -4] German air raid on Liverpool
1941 - 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4
1942 - Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
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 - Wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended in the United States.
1944 - Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.
1945 - First Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 - Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1945 - Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
1945 - German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1946 - International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1947 - 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
1947 - Japan formed a constitutional democracy
1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
1948 - The US Supreme Court, in Shelley v. Kraemer, stated that it is unconstitutional for a court to enforce a restrictive covenant which prevents people of a certain race from owning or occupying property, and that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.
1949 - First 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)
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 - First landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1952 - 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
1953 - WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Westchester conference of American Library Association 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 - 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
1958 - WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
1959 - The Detroit Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
1960 - Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in NYC
1960 - The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1961 - Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
1962 - Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
1965 - First use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1965 - Third 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 California)
1965 - KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1965 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1966 - The game "Twister" was featured on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
1966 - WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 - Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University
1968 - After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retook Dai Do complex in Vietnam. They found that the North Vietnamese had evacuated the area.
1968 - Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
1970 - 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1970 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1971 - National Public Radio broadcast for the first time. "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 - Anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations in Washington, DC.
1971 - Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1971 - James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, was caught in a jailbreak attempt.
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
1975 - 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02
1975 - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
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
1978 - Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II 1978 - Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston
1978 - WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston till riots end game
1978 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England.
1979 - Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
1979 - Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London
1980 - 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
1980 - Giants first baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR
1980 - Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
1981 - "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1981 - "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
1981 - Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International
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 Conference 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 - 112th Kentucky Derby - At the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory in 2:02.8
1986 - In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff. Safety officers destroyed it by remote control.
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
1986 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
1987 - "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
1987 - Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
1988 - The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities.
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 only to Gunsmoke
1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.
1992 - Baltimore's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
1992 - NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
1992 - Ohio Glory wins first WLAF game (after 6 losses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
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 - 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
1997 - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen
1997 - Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
1997 - The "Republic of Texas" surrendered to authorities ending an armed standoff where two people were held hostage. The group asserts the independence of Texas from the U.S.
1998 - "The Sevres Road," by 18-century landscape painter Camille Corot, stolen from the Louvre in France.
1999 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. Kansas and Oklahoma were hit by an outbreak of more than 55 tornadoes, including one measured at F5 on the Fujita scale.
1999 - Mark Manes, at age 22, was arrested for supplying a gun to Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold, who later killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado.
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
1999 - Hasbro released the first collection of toys for the Star Wars movie "Episode I: The Phantom Menace."
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.
2000 - The trial of two Libyans accused of killing 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 (over Lockerbie) opened.
2001 - The United States, a member of the UN Human Rights Commission since its inception, lost its seat. It would be restored the following year. It has been a member since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 - A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2006 - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
2006 -In Alexandria, Virginia. Al-Quaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was given a sentence of life in prison for his role in the terrorist attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2007 - British girl Madeleine McCann disappears from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
These were the sources that I used for completing this blog entry:
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/may03.htm
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
















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