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