SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014

Today is Saturday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2014. 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

1845 ― Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China

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

1946 ― International military tribunal in Tokyo begins

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

1983 ― Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe

1988 ― 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs, Fla.

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