How Many Days Until May 3?

This day in history: May 3

1. 1960

   The Off-Broadway show The Fantasticks premiered, eventually becoming the world's longest-running musical, with 17,162 performances across 42 years.

2. 1963

   Police in Birmingham, Alabama, used high-pressure water hoses and dogs against civil-rights protesters, bringing scrutiny on racial segregation in the southern United States.

3. 1971

   Erich Honecker became First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the governing party of East Germany.

4. 1999

   The Kargil War initiates when Indian forces detected the infiltration of Pakistani forces in Indian-administered Kargil, a city in Jammu and Kashmir.

5. 1999

   A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth, at 143.6 m/s (321 mph; 517 km/h), in a tornado near Bridge Creek, Oklahoma.

6. 2007

   Three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal; she has never been found.

7. 2021

   An elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapsed, killing 26 people and injuring 98 others.

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