May 3
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
\n*1494 - Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica.\n*1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet.\n*1747 - The French Navy is defeated by The British Fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre.\n*1808 - Finnish War: The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia.\n*1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont. \n*1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden. \n*1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.\n*1912 - The first victims of the RMS Titanic are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia. \n*1933 - Nellie Taylor Ross becomes the first women to head the United States Mint. \n*1937 - Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize.\n*1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.\n*1946 - The International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. \n*1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.\n*1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.\n* 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.\n*1952 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.\n*1956 - The judo World Championships are first held.\n*1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California.\n*1960 - The off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village (it is the longest-running musical of all time).\n*1968 - A Braniff International Electra crashes during a storm near Dawson, Texas killing 85.\n*1971 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.\n*1982- Falklands War: The Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile.\n*1987 - Davey Allison wins his first NASCAR Winston Cup race at the Winston 500 in Talladega, Alabama. \n*1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed. \n* 1991 - The last episode of the soap opera Dallas aired. \n* 1999 - Oklahoma City got slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produced 66 tornadoes. This tornado killed 38 people and injured 665 and caused $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)\n* 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70. A little under a year later on January 14, 2000 it closed at its highest level to date at 11,722.98.\n*2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy.\n*2003 - New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountains mysteriuosly falls from its perch after 10,000 years\n*2003 - Funny Cide becomes the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.
Births
\n*612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)\n*1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, historian and political author (d. 1527)\n*1662 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, master builder (d. 1736)\n*1761 - August von Kotzebue, dramatist (d. 1819)\n*1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)\n*1844 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, theatrical impresario (d. 1901)\n*1859 - Andy Adams, author (d. 1935)\n*1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)\n*1861 - Emmett Dalton, outlaw (d. 1937)\n*1893 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)\n*1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)\n*1903 - Bing Crosby, singer (d. 1977)\n*1906 - Mary Astor, actress (d. 1987)\n*1913 - William Inge, playwright (d. 1973)\n*1919 - Pete Seeger, singer\n* 1919 - Betty Comden, lyricist\n*1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer (d. 1989)\n* 1921 - Joe Ames, singer\n*1933 - James Brown, singer\n*1937 - Frankie Valli, singer\n* 1946 - Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player\n*1947 - Doug Henning, magician (d. 2000)\n*1950 - Howard Ashman, lyricist (d. 1991)\n* 1950 - Mary Hopkin, singer\n*1951 - Christopher Cross, musician\n*1952 - Allan Wells, British athlete\n*1955 - David Hookes, cricketer (d. 2004)\n*1959 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author\n* 1959 - Uma Bharati, first woman chief minister of Madhya Pradesh\n*1962 - Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder\n* 1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player\n*1969 - Daryl F. Mallett, author and actor\n*1976 - Beto, football player
Deaths
\n*1679 - Archbishop James Sharp assassinated (b. 1613)\n*1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)\n*1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)\n*1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)\n*1989 - Christine Jorgensen, transsexual (b. 1926)\n*1991 - Jerzy Kosinski, writer (b. 1933)\n*1992 - Sidney Reso, Exxon executive\n*2002 - Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (b. 1910)
Holidays and observances
\n*World Press Freedom Day\n*Roman Catholicism- Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (often called the Feast of the Invention of the True Cross)\n*Poland – The Constitution Day\n*Discordianism- Discoflux (50th day of the season of Discord)
\nExternal links
\n*External list of US polititians who were born on May 3.
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