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.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links

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.
• 1849 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
• 1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• 1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• 1928 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
• 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.
• 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 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 - The sport of Geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• 2003 - New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.

Births

• 612 - 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 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)
• 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 - 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 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, 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)
• 1932 - Robert Osborne, American film historian
• 1933 - James Brown, American singer
• 1933 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 - Frankie Valli, American singer (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, American actress
• 1975 - Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist

Deaths

• 1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England
• 1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop
• 1270 - 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, 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 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 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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