MAY 3

May 3, 1284 : The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
May 3, 1575 : Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
May 3, 1585 : The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
May 3, 1803 : Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
May 3, 1820 : The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
May 3, 1845 : Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
May 3, 1845 : For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
May 3, 1849 : The United States Department of the Interior is established.
May 3, 1849 : The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
May 3, 1857 : Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
May 3, 1861 : Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
May 3, 1865 : The U.S. Congress authorizes the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
May 3, 1865 : Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
May 3, 1873 : Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
May 3, 1875 : Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique of Paris.
May 3, 1875 : The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
May 3, 1877 : Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5).
May 3, 1878 : Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
May 3, 1879 : The United States Geological Survey is created.
May 3, 1885 : The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
May 3, 1891 : The Penalty Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season.
May 3, 1904 : Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
May 3, 1905 : Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
May 3, 1910 : Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote full time to being a philanthropist.
May 3, 1913 : Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria Ticha, now known as PFC "Cherno More".
May 3, 1915 : NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
May 3, 1918 : Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
May 3, 1923 : TIME magazine is published for the first time.
May 3, 1924 : The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
May 3, 1931 : The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
May 3, 1938 : Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
May 3, 1939 : In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
May 3, 1940 : Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
May 3, 1942 : World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
May 3, 1943 : World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
May 3, 1944 : The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
May 3, 1945 : World War II: American and Filipino troops take Manila in the Philippines.
May 3, 1953 : A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11.
May 3, 1958 : Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
May 3, 1961 : Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
May 3, 1969 : Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
May 3, 1971 : Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini.
May 3, 1972 : Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
May 3, 1974 : Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
May 3, 1976 : 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
May 3, 1980 : The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken.
May 3, 1985 : Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
May 3, 1991 : An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
May 3, 1991 : United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
May 3, 1992 : The nation of Bosnia is established.
May 3, 1997 : The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
May 3, 2002 : Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
May 3, 2005 : Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.


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