On this Day May 3rd
On This Day - 3rd May
On 3rd May 1471 Richard Beauchamp 2nd Baron Beauchamp Powick [aged 36] barred the gates of Gloucester against Margaret of Anjou's Lancastrian army preventing them from crossing the River Severn.
1497 A rising broke out in Cornwall, provoked by taxation. James Tutchet led an army of 15,000 from Taunton through the southern counties to attack London.
1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway (Kent) was opened. Sometimes referred to colloquially as the Crab and Winkle Line, it was the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets. It used cable haulage by stationary steam engines over much of its length, with steam locomotives restricted to the level stretch.
1926: The first successful flight over the North Pole was made by American explorer Richard E. Byrd.
On May 3, 1956, the first formal proposal to build a tunnel under the English Channel was put forward. The idea of a Channel Tunnel (often referred to as the “Chunnel”) had been discussed for centuries, but in 1956, a British-French group presented plans for a tunnel that would link the United Kingdom and France.
1956 Granada TV broadcast for the first time at 7.30 p.m. With the ending of the BBC's monopoly on broadcasting, viewers saw their first television advertising and four days later Granada did the first sports outside broadcast.
1965 - ClassicBands.com
May 3
The Beatles were kept busy filming scenes for their forthcoming film Help! on Salisbury Plain with the British Army's Third Tank Division.
1968 -
May 3
The Beach Boys begin a seventeen date tour of the US with a show in New York. The second half of the concert featured the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who lectured the audience on "spiritual regeneration." The reaction was so negative, more than half of the remaining tour dates were canceled.
1972 -
May 3
Guitarist Les Harvey of the Scottish / English soul band Stone the Crows, was electrocuted by a shorted microphone wire during a concert attended by 12-thousand people in Swansea, Wales. He died in a local hospital three hours later.
On 3rd May 1471 Richard Beauchamp 2nd Baron Beauchamp Powick [aged 36] barred the gates of Gloucester against Margaret of Anjou's Lancastrian army preventing them from crossing the River Severn.
1497 A rising broke out in Cornwall, provoked by taxation. James Tutchet led an army of 15,000 from Taunton through the southern counties to attack London.
1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway (Kent) was opened. Sometimes referred to colloquially as the Crab and Winkle Line, it was the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets. It used cable haulage by stationary steam engines over much of its length, with steam locomotives restricted to the level stretch.
1926: The first successful flight over the North Pole was made by American explorer Richard E. Byrd.
On May 3, 1956, the first formal proposal to build a tunnel under the English Channel was put forward. The idea of a Channel Tunnel (often referred to as the “Chunnel”) had been discussed for centuries, but in 1956, a British-French group presented plans for a tunnel that would link the United Kingdom and France.
1956 Granada TV broadcast for the first time at 7.30 p.m. With the ending of the BBC's monopoly on broadcasting, viewers saw their first television advertising and four days later Granada did the first sports outside broadcast.
1965 - ClassicBands.com
May 3
The Beatles were kept busy filming scenes for their forthcoming film Help! on Salisbury Plain with the British Army's Third Tank Division.
1968 -
May 3
The Beach Boys begin a seventeen date tour of the US with a show in New York. The second half of the concert featured the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who lectured the audience on "spiritual regeneration." The reaction was so negative, more than half of the remaining tour dates were canceled.
1972 -
May 3
Guitarist Les Harvey of the Scottish / English soul band Stone the Crows, was electrocuted by a shorted microphone wire during a concert attended by 12-thousand people in Swansea, Wales. He died in a local hospital three hours later.
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