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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_3" title="May 3">May 3</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Day" title="World Press Freedom Day">World Press Freedom Day</a></b>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Memorial_Day" title="Constitution Memorial Day">Constitution Memorial Day</a></b> in Japan (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947" title="1947">1947</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_May_Constitution_Day" title="3 May Constitution Day">Constitution Day</a></b> in Poland (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1791" title="1791">1791</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1481" title="1481">1481</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1481_Rhodes_earthquake" title="1481 Rhodes earthquake">The largest of a series of earthquakes</a></b> struck the island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a>, causing an estimated 30,000 casualties.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benty_Grange_helmet" title="Benty Grange helmet">Benty Grange helmet</a></b>, a boar-crested <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxon</a> helmet similar to those mentioned in the contemporary epic poem <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf" title="Beowulf">Beowulf</a></i>, was discovered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>, England.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939" title="1939">1939</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose" title="Subhas Chandra Bose">Subhas Chandra Bose</a> formed the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc" title="All India Forward Bloc">All India Forward Bloc</a></b>, a faction within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a>, in opposition to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Gandhi</a>'s tactics of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance" title="Nonviolent resistance">nonviolence</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999" title="1999">1999</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_on_Wheels" title="Doppler on Wheels">Doppler on Wheels</a> team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth, at 135 m/s (302 mph; 486 km/h), in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado" title="1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado">a tornado</a></b> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_Creek,_Oklahoma" title="Bridge Creek, Oklahoma">Bridge Creek, Oklahoma</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bacon_(died_1621)" title="Elizabeth Bacon (died 1621)">Elizabeth Bacon</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1621); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis" title="Jacob Riis">Jacob Riis</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1849); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_McCallister" title="Bob McCallister">Bob McCallister</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1934); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Hextall" title="Ron Hextall">Ron Hextall</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1964)</p>
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