13 Ordibehesht 1401

Events

• 1802 (224 years ago) Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government.
• 1808 (218 years ago) Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
• 1837 (189 years ago) The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
• 1855 (171 years ago) American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
• 1987 (39 years ago) A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
• 2006 (20 years ago) Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.
• 2023 (3 years ago) Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.

Births

• 1469 (557 years ago) Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and philosopher (died 1527)
• 1892 (134 years ago) George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (died 1978)
• 1902 (124 years ago) Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (died 1977)
• 1919 (107 years ago) Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist (died 2014)
• 1933 (93 years ago) James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2006)
• 1933 (93 years ago) Steven Weinberg, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)

Deaths

• 1270 (756 years ago) Béla IV of Hungary,
• 1481 (545 years ago) Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan (born 1432)
• 1758 (268 years ago) Pope Benedict XIV,
• 1856 (170 years ago) Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (born 1803)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Zakir Husain, Indian academic and politician, 3rd President of India (born 1897)
• 1981 (45 years ago) Nargis, Indian actress (born 1929)
• 1987 (39 years ago) Dalida, Italian singer, actress, dancer, and model (born 1933)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1930)

All 348 events, births and deaths of May 3