
May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). There are 242 days remaining. ==Events== *1494 - Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica. *1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Sejm. *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 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 IV (liner)'' by the Royal Air Force 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 Constitution of Japan 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 Los Angeles 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, 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 (TV series)'' 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, Oklahoma is slammed by an Fujita scale 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 Global_Positioning_System are posted on Usenet. *2003 - New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain collapses. *2003 - Funny Cide becomes the first New York (state)-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby. ==Births== *612 - Constantine III of Byzantium, 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 - Matthaeus Daniel Poppelmann, master builder (d. 1736) *1761 - August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819) *1826 - Charles XV of Sweden 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, Scotland physiologist (d. 1936) *1861 - Emmett Dalton, outlaw (d. 1937) *1867 - Jack Hearne (John Thomas 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 in film) *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), 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 (musician), singer *1937 - Frankie Valli, US pop singer *1946 - Silvino Francisco, South Africa 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, Wales snooker player *1969 - Daryl F. Mallett, author and actor *1972 - Celeste, pornograhpic actress *1974 - Dul%E9 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-rounder (b. 1889) *1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933) *1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet Union 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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899) *2002 - Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, United Kingdom Labour Party (UK) 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 == *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-may-03.html External list] of US polititians who were born on May 3. * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/3 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/5/3 Today in History: May 3] ---- May 2 - May 4 - April 3 - June 3 – historical anniversaries bs:3. maj ga:3 Bealtaine la:3 Maii scn:3 di maiu simple:May 3 th:3 พฤษภาคม
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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. ==Events== *1494 - Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica. *1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Sejm. *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 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 IV (liner)'' by the Royal Air Force 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 Constitution of Japan 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 Los Angeles 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, 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 (TV series)'' 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, Oklahoma is slammed by an Fujita scale 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 Global_Positioning_System are posted on Usenet. *2003 - New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain collapses. *2003 - Funny Cide becomes the first New York (state)-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby. ==Births== *612 - Constantine III of Byzantium, 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 - Matthaeus Daniel Poppelmann, master builder (d. 1736) *1761 - August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819) *1826 - Charles XV of Sweden 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, Scotland physiologist (d. 1936) *1861 - Emmett Dalton, outlaw (d. 1937) *1867 - Jack Hearne (John Thomas 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 in film) *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), 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 (musician), singer *1937 - Frankie Valli, US pop singer *1946 - Silvino Francisco, South Africa 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, Wales snooker player *1969 - Daryl F. Mallett, author and actor *1972 - Celeste, pornograhpic actress *1974 - Dul%E9 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-rounder (b. 1889) *1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933) *1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet Union 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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899) *2002 - Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, United Kingdom Labour Party (UK) 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 == *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-may-03.html External list] of US polititians who were born on May 3. * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/3 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/5/3 Today in History: May 3] ---- May 2 - May 4 - April 3 - June 3 – historical anniversaries bs:3. maj ga:3 Bealtaine la:3 Maii scn:3 di maiu simple:May 3 th:3 พฤษภาคม
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