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May 3 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 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 .1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint .1937 - Gone with the Wind novel by Margaret Mitchell , wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction .1945 - World War II : Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona , Thielbek Deutschland 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 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.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
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 - 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 red 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 )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 )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 )1861 - Emmett Dalton , American outlaw (d. 1937 )1867 - J.T. Hearne , English cricketer (d. 1944 )1874 - François Coty , French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934 )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 - Sugar Ray Robinson , American boxer (d. 1989 )1921 - Joe Ames , American singer
1923 - Ralph Hall , American politician1928 - Dave Dudley , American singer (d. 2003 )1933 - James Brown , American singer1933 - Steven Weinberg , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Frankie Valli , American singer1945 - Davey Lopes , baseball player and coach1946 - Silvino Francisco , South African snooker player1947 - Doug Henning , Canadian magician (d. 2000 )1950 - Howard Ashman , American lyricist (d. 1991 )1950 - Mary Hopkin , Welsh singer
1951 - Christopher Cross , American musician1951 - Tatyana Tolstaya , Russian writer1952 - Allan Wells , British athlete1955 - David Hookes , Australian cricketer (d. 2004 )1959 - Ben Elton , British comedian and author1959 - Uma Bharati , Indian politician
1962 - Anders Graneheim , Swedish bodybuilder1966 - Darren Morgan , Welsh snooker player1972 - Celeste , American actress1975 - Maksim Mrvica , Croatian pianist
Deaths
1152 - Matilda of Boulogne , queen of Stephen of England 1160 - Peter Lombard , Italian scholar and bishop1294 - 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 Maryland1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675 )1763 - George Psalmanazar , British imposter1764 - Francesco Algarotti , Italian philosopher (b. 1712 )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 - Milt Caniff , American cartoonist (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
External links
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