Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/May 3
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- May 3:
- 1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
- 1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
- 1921 - West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.