What happened on May 3rd???

Have you ever wondered what happened on a particular day in history? What events, what discoveries, what achievements occurred on a specific day? Your birthday perhaps? Well today we are bringing you the major events that happened on May 3rd.

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1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1715 – A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy.
1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
1860 – Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
1921 – The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
1937 – Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for “Gone with the Wind”.
1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
1960 – The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building at the time.
1997 – Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue”.
1999 – Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams to win the World Snooker Championship for a record 7th time.
2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 – Movie “Spider-Man” starring Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe premieres.
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".
2013 – The Palmetto Playground in Brooklyn is renamed after Beastie Boys’ rapper Adam Yauch.
2018 – Atlanta Falcons quarterback becomes the first player in the NFL to earn $30 million per year.