The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida. The Great Fire of 1901 was one of the most devastating urban fires in the history…
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3 May 1616
Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war. The Treaty of Loudun, signed in 1616, marked the end of a brief but intense French civil…
3 May 1616
Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war. The Treaty of Loudun, signed in 1616, was one of several treaties aimed at resolving the recurring…
3 May 1952
The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. The Kentucky Derby is an annual horse race that takes place…
3 May 2000
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
3 May 2007
The 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting “the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history”. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann’]
3 May 1947
The new post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. On May 3, 1947, Japan’s postwar constitution goes into effect. The progressive constitution granted universal suffrage, stripped…
3 May 1937
The novel, Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 3 May 1937, Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize…
3 May 1952
The CBS network televises the Kentucky Derby for the first time. Thoroughbred Racing on CBS is the de facto title for a series of horse…