Dave Dudley was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his somewhat-slurred bass. His signature song was "Six Days on the Road", and he is also remembered for "Vietnam Blues", "Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun", and "Me and Ol' C.B.". His other recordings include a duet with Tom T. Hall, "Day Drinking", and his own top-10 hit, "Fireball Rolled a Seven", supposedly based on the career and death of Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts.

1928Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (died 2001)^[†]

Jacques-Louis Lions was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John von Neumann Lecture prize in 1986 and numerous other distinctions. Lions is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.

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1928The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.^[†]

The Jinan incident or 3 May Tragedy began as a 3 May 1928 dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army (NRA) and Japanese soldiers and civilians in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province in China, which then escalated into an armed conflict between the NRA and the Imperial Japanese Army.

Headlines from May 3, 1928

TRANSIT STOCKS UP PRIOR TO DECISION; I.R.T. Goes to a New High, Although Fare Ruling Is Not Issued Till Market Closes. HAS DOUBLED SINCE JAN. 1 B.M.T. Common Also Rises Briskly--Recent Gains Are Recorded in Tractions. Quarterly Earnings Off. Prior Obligations to Dividends.

No Immediate Increase in Fare Is Looked For; Further Court Moves Likely to Take Till Fall

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