Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is May 3. The Plains states were raked by a "super outbreak" of tornadoes on this date in 1999. A total of 76 twisters spawned by a storm system tore through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, killing about 50 people and injuring more than 700. The hardest hit was Oklahoma, where more than 40 funnels touched down. One tornado carved a path a mile wide and more than 20 miles long through the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Advertisement A standoff by armed separatists near Fort Davis, Texas, ended on this date in 1997 with the surrender of six people, including leader Richard McLaren. Two of the separatists escaped on foot; police shot to death one of them two days later. Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party won the British general election on this date in 1979, making her the first woman prime minister of a major European nation. It was about time! And it was on this date in 1919 that U.S. airplane passenger service began when pilot Robert Hewitt flew two women from New York to Atlantic City, N.J. We don't think there was an in-flight movie. Advertisement We now return you to the present, already in progress.
