SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2008

Today is Saturday, May 3, the 124th day of 2008. There are 242 days left in the year.

1621 _ Francis Bacon accused of bribery

1830 _ First regular steam train passenger service starts

1947 _ Japan forms a constitutional democracy

1952 _ First landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole

1963 _ Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ``I have a dream" speech

1965 _ First use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite

1982 _ New York Times reports that military will get 25 percent of NASA's budget

1983 _ Soviet leader Yuri Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe

1987 _ Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart

1997 _ Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue