On This Day: May 3rd

Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.

Ethnic violence breaks out between the Meitei and the Kuki Zo people in the state of Manipur.

Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured after an elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses.

Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.

Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".

Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.

The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.

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

The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City 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 tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 484 ± 32 kilometres per hour (301 ± 20 mph). In meteorology, the term "May 3" is synonymous with the F5 tornado.