May 3
1838 - First church building opens in Toledo at corner of Superior and Cherry Street.
1842 - City of Toledo builds a new fire station on Summit Street between Adams and Cherry Streets.
1889 - The Pemberville Leader begins publication.
1903 - Tragedy strikes a large group of Polish travelers from Toledo when many of the group are run over by a locomotive in Detroit. Hundreds had been waiting on the tracks for a return train to Toledo when they were hit. Nine people are killed and scores injured.
1954 - Grant Murray Field at Waite High School is dedicated.
1966 - WDHO TV, Channel 24, owned by Daniel H. Overmyer, begins broadcasting in Toledo. It is the city s third commercial TV station and later changes its call sign to WNWO-TV.