May 3
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May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). There are 242 days remaining.
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Events
- 1494 - Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica.
- 1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet.
- 1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
- 1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
- 1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont.
- 1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
- 1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
- 1937 - Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
- 1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- 1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- 1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
- 1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- 1952 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
- 1956 - The judo World Championships are first held.
- 1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
- 1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
- 1971 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
- 1986 - In Bergen, Norway, Sandra Kim wins the thirty-first Eurovision Song Contest for Belgium singing "J'aime la vie" (I love life).
- 1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
- 1991 - The last episode of the soap opera Dallas airs.
- 1997 - In Dublin, Ireland, Katrina & the Waves win the forty-second Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Love Shine a Light".
- 1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produces 66 tornadoes. The Oklahoma City tornado kills 42 people and injures 665, and causes $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)
- 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
- 2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2000 - The sport of Geocaching begins with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS are posted on Usenet.
- 2003 - New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
- 2003 - Funny Cide becomes the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.
Births
- 612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
- 1415 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
- 1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
- 1662 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, master builder (d. 1736)
- 1761 - August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
- 1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
- 1835 - Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
- 1844 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario (d. 1901)
- 1859 - Andy Adams, author (d. 1935)
- 1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
- 1861 - Emmett Dalton, outlaw (d. 1937)
- 1867 - J.T. Hearne, English cricket player (d. 1944)
- 1874 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
- 1886 - Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
- 1888 - Beulah Bondi, actress (d. 1981)
- 1893 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
- 1895 - Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
- 1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
- 1903 - Bing Crosby, US singer (d. 1977)
- 1905 - Sebastian Shaw, actor (d. 1994)
- 1906 - Anna E. Roosevelt, radio personality (d. 1975)
- 1906 - Mary Astor, actress (d. 1987)
- 1913 - William Inge, playwright (d. 1973)
- 1915 - Stu Hart, professional wrestler and wrestling trainer (d. 2003)
- 1919 - Pete Seeger, US folk singer
- 1919 - Betty Comden, lyricist
- 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, US boxer (d. 1989)
- 1921 - Joe Ames, singer
- 1923 - Ralph Hall, US politician
- 1933 - James Brown, singer
- 1937 - Frankie Valli, US pop singer
- 1946 - Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
- 1947 - Doug Henning, magician (d. 2000)
- 1950 - Howard Ashman, lyricist (d. 1991)
- 1950 - Mary Hopkin, singer
- 1951 - Christopher Cross, musician
- 1952 - Allan Wells, British athlete, Jennifer Broadbridge
- 1955 - David Hookes, cricketer (d. 2004)
- 1959 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author
- 1959 - Uma Bharati, first woman chief minister of Madhya Pradesh
- 1962 - Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
- 1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
- 1969 - Daryl F. Mallett, author and actor
- 1972 - Celeste, pornograhpic actress
- 1974 - Dulé Hill, actor
- 1975 - Maksim Mrvica, pianist
- 1991 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (d. 1998)
Deaths
- 1160 - Peter Lombard, scholar and bishop
- 1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
- 1622 - Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary to Ethiopia (b. 1564)
- 1679 - Archbishop James Sharp, assassinated (b. 1613)
- 1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
- 1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b. 1803)
- 1932 - Charles Fort, US writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena (b. 1874)
- 1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
- 1958 - Frank Foster, Warwickshire all-round cricketer (b. 1889)
- 1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
- 1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician
- 1988 - Milt Caniff, cartoonist (b. 1907)
- 1989 - Christine Jorgensen, transsexual (b. 1926)
- 1991 - Jerzy Kosinski, writer (b. 1933)
- 1992 - Sidney Reso, Exxon executive
- 1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
- 2002 - Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (b. 1910)
- 2003 - Suzy Parker, US actress (b. 1932)
- 2004 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)
Holidays and observances
- National Teacher Day in the United States
- World Press Freedom Day
- Constitution Day in Poland and Japan
- Roman Catholicism- Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (often called the Feast of the Invention of the True Cross)
- Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church
- Saints Eventius, Theodulus, and Alexander (martyrs of 119)
- Emily Bicchiere (1238 - 1314)
- Antonia and Alexander (martyrs of 313)
- Saint Juvenal (d. 376)
- Ausfrid (c. 1008)
- Israel - Yom Ha'atzma'ut (Israeli Independence Day) for 2006: (the observed date of this national holiday is determined by the Jewish Calendar).
External links
- External list (http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-may-03.html) of US polititians who were born on May 3.
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/3)
- Today in History: May 3 (http://www.tnl.net/when/5/3)
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