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