1916<\/strong> – Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> –\u00a0West Virginia\u00a0imposed the first state sales tax.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – The revival of Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” opened in New York.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines landed in Nicaragua and stayed until 1933.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – In Britain, trade unions began a general strike.<\/p>\n 1927<\/strong> – Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park,\u00a0NY, patented the electric sign flasher.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Mint was under the direction of a woman for the first time when Nellie Ross took the position.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With The Wind.”<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – Wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended in the\u00a0U.S.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – The game “Twister” was featured on the “Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – After three days of battle, the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines retook Dai Do complex in Vietnam. They found that the North Vietnamese had evacuated the area.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – Anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations in Washington,\u00a0DC.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – National Public Radio broadcast for the first time.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King’s assassin, was caught in a jailbreak attempt.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – In NASA’s first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff. Safety officers destroyed it by remote control.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband’s activities.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles,\u00a0CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – The “Republic of Texas” surrendered to authorities ending an armed standoff where two people were held, hostage. The group asserts the independence of Texas\u00a0from the\u00a0U.S.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – “The Sevres Road,” by 18-century landscape painter Camille Corot, stolen from the Louvre in France.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Mark Manes, at age 22, was arrested for supplying a gun to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who later killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Hasbro released the first collection of toys for the Star Wars movie “Episode I: The Phantom Menace.” 1999<\/strong> – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 11,000 for the first time.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – The trial of two Libyans accused of killing 270 people in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 (over Lockerbie) opened.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> – In Alexandria, VA, Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was given a sentence of life in prison for his role in the terrorist attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The 3-year-old British girl\u00a0Madeleine McCann\u00a0disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting “the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history”.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Two gunmen\u00a0launch an attempted attack\u00a0on an anti-Islam event in\u00a0Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the\u00a0Charlie Hebdo<\/i>\u00a0shooting.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Eighty-eight thousand people were evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as\u00a0a wildfire ripped through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.<\/p>\n History of 3 May 1916 – Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising. 1921 –\u00a0West Virginia\u00a0imposed the first state sales tax. 1926 – The revival of Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” opened in New York. 1926 –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines landed in Nicaragua and stayed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[718,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-3-may","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-1bB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24176,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions\/24176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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