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Saturday, 03 May 2025

2006

Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.

Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.

2003

New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.

2002

A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.

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.

2000

The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

1999

The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.

1987

A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.

1986

Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.

1978

The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.

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