Today is Friday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2013. 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
1926 ― British general strike; 3 million workers support miners
1937 ― Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With the Wind"
1946 ― International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1952 ― “Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater, NYC, after 644 performances
1963 ― Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I have a dream" speech
1971 ― Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in three days
1983 ― Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1997 ― Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue