MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010

Today is Monday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2010. There are 242 days left in the year.

1494 _ Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it ``St. Iago"

1621 _ Francis Bacon accused of bribery

1851 _ Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die

1947 _ Japan forms a constitutional democracy

1948 _ Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams

1962 _ Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)

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

1965 _ Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the U.S.

1983 _ Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe

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