Event:
Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
More Notable Events on May 3:
1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain
1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished
1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1802 Washington D.C. incorporates as a city
