TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011

Today is Tuesday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2011. 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

1802 ― Washington, D.C. incorporates as a city

1808 ― Goya's ``Executions of the 3rd of May"

1937 ― Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for ``Gone With the Wind"

1947 ― Japan forms a constitutional democracy

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

1971 ― Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in three days

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