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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.
Events
*
1494 -
Christopher Columbus first spots
Jamaica.
*
1791 - The
May Constitution of Poland (first modern
constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish
Sejm 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
PrÃncipe PÃo hill.
*
1810 -
Lord Byron swims the
Hellespont.
*
1849 - The
May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the
The_Revolutions_of_1848_in_the_German_states German revolutions of 1848.
*
1860 -
Charles XV of Sweden 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 IV (liner) Deutschland'' by the
Royal Air Force 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
Constitution of Japan 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
Los Angeles Dodgers Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from
Brooklyn, New York, to
Los Angeles, California.
*
1959 - The first
Grammy Awards are announced.
*
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.
*
1974 - The
Portuguese Democratic Labour Party is founded in
Portugal.
*
1980 - The
Communist Party of Togo is founded.
*
1991 - The
Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
*
1997 - In
Dublin,
Ireland,
Katrina and the Waves win the forty-second
Eurovision Song Contest for the
United Kingdom singing "Love Shine a Light".
*
1999 -
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma City is slammed by an
Fujita scale 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 - The sport of
Geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a
Global_Positioning_System GPS posted on
Usenet.
Births
*
612 -
Constantine III of Byzantium Constantine III,
Byzantine Emperor (d.
641)
*
1415 -
Cecily Neville, mother of
Edward IV of England and
Richard III of England (d.
1495)
*
1428 -
Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d.
1495)
*
1446 -
Margaret of York, wife of
Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d.
1503)
*
1469 -
Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d.
1527)
*
1662 -
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d.
1736)
*
1695 -
Henri Pitot, French engineer (d.
1771)
*
1713 -
Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d.
1765)
*
1761 -
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d.
1819)
*
1826 -
Charles XV of Sweden 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)
*
1849 -
Bernhard von Bülow,
Chancellor of Germany (d.
1929)
*
1859 -
Andy Adams, American author (d.
1935)
*
1860 -
John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d.
1936)
* 1860 -
Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d.
1940)
*
1861 -
Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d.
1937)
*
1867 -
Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne) J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d.
1944)
*
1874 -
François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d.
1934)
* 1874 -
V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d.
1954)
*
1877 -
Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d.
1925)
*
1886 -
Marcel Dupré, French composer (d.
1971)
*
1888 -
Beulah Bondi, American actress (d.
1981)
*
1892 -
George Paget Thomson, English physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1975)
*
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)
*
1902 -
Alfred Kastler, French physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1984)
*
1903 -
Bing Crosby, American singer (d.
1977)
*
1905 -
Sebastian Shaw (actor) Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d.
1994)
*
1906 -
Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (d.
1975)
* 1906 -
Mary Astor, American actress (d.
1987)
*
1912 -
Virgil Fox, American organist (d.
1980)
*
1913 -
William Inge, American playwright (d.
1973)
*
1915 -
Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d.
2003)
*
1919 -
Betty Comden, American lyricist (d.
2002)
* 1919 -
John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d.
2004)
* 1919 -
Pete Seeger, American folk singer
*
1921 -
Joe Ames, American singer
* 1921 -
Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d.
1989)
*
1923 -
Ralph Hall, American politician
*
1928 -
Dave Dudley, American singer (d.
2003)
*
1933 -
James Brown (musician) James Brown, American singer
* 1933 -
Steven Weinberg, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
1937 -
Frankie Valli, American singer (
The Four Seasons (group) The Four Seasons)
*
1941 -
Edward "Monk" Malloy, Former University of Notre Dame President
*
1945 -
Davey Lopes, baseball player and coach
*
1946 -
Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
*
1947 -
Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d.
2000)
*
1950 -
Howard Ashman, American lyricist (d.
1991)
* 1950 -
Mary Hopkin, Welsh singer
*
1951 -
Christopher Cross, American musician
* 1951 -
Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
*
1952 -
Allan Wells, British athlete
*
1955 -
David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d.
2004)
* 1955 -
Steve Jones, English musician from rock group
The Sex Pistols
*
1959 -
Uma Bharati, Indian politician
* 1959 -
Ben Elton, British comedian and author
*
1962 -
Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
*
1966 -
Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
*
1971 -
Josey Scott, lead singer of
Saliva
*
1972 -
Celeste (adult film star) Celeste, American actress
*
1975 -
Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist
Deaths
*
1152 -
Matilda of Boulogne,
Queen of England
*
1160 -
Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop
*
1270 -
Béla IV of Hungary Bela IV, king of
Hungary
*
1294 -
John I, Duke of Brabant
*
1481 -
Mehmed II,
Ottoman Sultan (b.
1432)
*
1598 -
Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b.
1563)
*
1606 -
Henry Garnet, English Jesuit missionary (b.
1555)
*
1622 -
Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b.
1564)
*
1679 -
James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b.
1613)
*
1693 -
Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b.
1607)
*
1704 -
Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (b.
1644)
*
1724 -
John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b.
1662)
*
1750 -
John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b.
1680)
*
1752 -
Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland
*
1758 -
Pope Benedict XIV (b.
1675)
*
1763 -
George Psalmanazar, British imposter
*
1764 -
Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b.
1712)
*
1779 -
John Winthrop (1714-1779) John Winthrop, American astronomer (b.
1714)
*
1793 -
Martin Gerbert, German theologian and historian (b.
1720)
*
1839 -
Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b.
1771)
*
1856 -
Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b.
1803)
*
1942 -
Thorvald Stauning,
Prime Minister of Denmark (b.
1873)
*
1958 -
Frank Foster, English cricketer (b.
1889)
*
1987 -
Dalida, French singer (b.
1933)
*
1988 -
Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b.
1908)
* 1988 -
Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (
Terry and the Pirates,
Steve Canyon) (b.
1907)
*
1991 -
Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born writer (b.
1933)
*
1994 -
Ezra Taft Benson, president of
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1899)
*
2002 -
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British politician (b.
1910)
*
2003 -
Suzy Parker, American 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 national holiday is determined by the
Jewish Calendar).
*
Discoflux (
Discordianism)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
''The New York Times'': On This Day
-
On This Day in Canada
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May 2 -
May 4 -
April 3 -
June 3 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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