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Babel & Babelfish
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May 3: World Press Freedom Day; Constitution Memorial Day in Japan (1947); Constitution Day in Poland (1791)
- 1481 – The largest of a series of earthquakes struck the island of Rhodes, causing an estimated 30,000 casualties.
- 1848 – The Benty Grange helmet (pictured), a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet similar to those mentioned in the contemporary epic poem Beowulf, was discovered in Derbyshire, England.
- 1939 – Subhas Chandra Bose formed the All India Forward Bloc, a faction within the Indian National Congress, in opposition to Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence.
- 1999 – A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth, at 301 ± 20 mph (484 ± 32 km/h), in a tornado near Bridge Creek, Oklahoma.
- Elizabeth Bacon (d. 1621)
- Jacob Riis (b. 1849)
- Bob McCallister (b. 1934)
- Ron Hextall (b. 1964)
Did you know? edit
- ... that Bäckadräkten (pictured) is Sweden's first unisex folk costume?
- ... that several ambiguously gendered figurines from pre-Columbian Ecuador can be analyzed through the lens of transgender archaeology?
- ... that despite the titular character of the game Cat Bird being a hybrid of a cat and a bird, critics thought the character looked more like a bat?
- ... that the first words in English that National Football League player Bayron Matos knew were "I'm hungry"?
- ... that the 1748 chapbook A Spy on Mother Midnight is studied for its sex scenes with cross-dressing and a dildo?
- ... that Asha Sobhana is the first Indian player to take a five-wicket haul in the Women's Premier League?
- ... that the posthumously released documentary Clean centered on the life of Sandra Pankhurst, a former sex worker, drag queen, and crime scene cleaner?
- ... that the last twenty residents of the only Shilshole village on Salmon Bay in Seattle were evicted in 1914 to allow the creation of the Ballard Locks?
- ... that the Darwin Rocksitters Club had "no funny business" as their first, third, and fifth rules?