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Events

1491 - Kingdom of Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese Empire missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I of Kongo.
1494 - Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
1715 - "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, UK for almost 900 years).
1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Poland Sejm.
1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
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.
1815 - Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Kingdom of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1837 - The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is founded. It is the oldest university in the eastern Mediterranean.
1849 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
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.
1901 - Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville.
1916 - Easter Rising leaders are executed in Dublin.
1921 - West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
1923 - Lieutenants John Macready and Oakley Kelly land their Fokker T-2 aircraft in San Diego, California. This is the first non-stop transcontinental flight. It took nearly 27 hrs.
1924 - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber
1928 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan Incident, 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.
1939 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1942 - Empire of Japan naval troops Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942) Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1945 - World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland IV (liner) by the Royal Air Force in 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.
1948 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
1951 - The Festival of Britain opens.
1951 - The United States Senate United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on 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 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.
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 theatre of all time.
1960 - The Anne Frank House opened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1971 - Anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe begin four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.
1973 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.
1979 - Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher to become United Kingdom's first female prime minister as the Labour government is ousted in United Kingdom general election, 1979.
1986 - Twenty-one people are killed and 41 injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1987 - A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1989 - Fenerbahce beats Galatasaray 4-3 coming back from 3-0.
1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
1999 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an Fujita scale tornado killing 42 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from 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.
1999 - Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams (snooker player) 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time.
2000 - The sport of Geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a Global Positioning System posted on Usenet.
2001 - The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 - A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2003 - New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
2005 - The first elected government in the history of Iraq is sworn in.
2006 - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
2006 - Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.

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)
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, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
1713 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
1761 - August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
1764 - Elisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI, guillotined 1794
1768 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)
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)
1849 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1857 - George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933)
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), English cricketer (d. 1944)
1873 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
1874 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
1874 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
1877 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
1879 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (d. 1950)
1886 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1888 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
1891 - Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969)
1892 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1975)
1893 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
1895 - Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
1896 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
1896 - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Flying ace (d. 1917)
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1901 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (d. 1974)
1902 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1905 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988)
1905 - Sebastian Shaw (actor), English actor (d. 1994)
1906 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (d. 1975)
1906 - Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1987)
1910 - Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer
1912 - Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
1913 - William Inge, American playwright (d. 1973)
1915 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d. 2003)
1916 - Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (d. 2006)
1918 - Ted Bates (footballer), English former footballer (d. 2003)
1919 - Betty Comden, American lyricist (d. 2006)
1919 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
1919 - Pete Seeger, American singer
1920 - John Lewis (pianist), American jazz pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2001)
1921 - Joe Ames, American singer
1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
1922 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1923 - Ralph Hall, American politician
1924 - Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (d. 2000)
1928 - Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
1932 - Robert Osborne, American film historian
1933 - James Brown, American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
1933 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
1933 - Alex Cord, American actor
1934 - Georges Moustaki, Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter
1934 - Henry Cooper, English boxer
1935 - Ron Popeil, American inventor
1937 - Nélida Piñon, Brazilian writer
1937 - Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons (group))
1938 - Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player
1940 - Conny Plank, German record producer and musician
1940 - Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football manager
1941 - Edward "Monk" Malloy, American university president
1942 - Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast
1945 - Davey Lopes, American baseball player and coach
1946 - Norm Chow, American football coach
1946 - Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
1947 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000)
1950 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist (d. 1991)
1951 - Christopher Cross, American musician
1951 - Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
1952 - Allan Wells, British athlete
1954 - Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement (band))
1955 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1956 - Marc Bellemare, Quebec lawyer and politician
1957 - Rod Langway, American ice hockey player
1958 - Sandi Toksvig, Danish comedian, author, and UK radio presenter
1958 - Kevin Kilner, American actor
1959 - David Ball (musician), English musician (Soft Cell)
1959 - Uma Bharati, Indian politician
1959 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author
1960 - Amy Steel, American actress
1961 - Joe Murray, American cartoonist
1961 - Steve McClaren, English football manager
1962 - Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
1963 - Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player
1963 - Jamie Reeves, British strongman
1963 - Sally Whittaker, English actress
1964 - Ron Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian
1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
1966 - Peter Abbay, American actor
1968 - Shane Minor (singer), American singer
1971 - Josey Scott, American singer (Saliva (band))
1972 - Shonie Carter, American MMA fighter
1974 - Dulé Hill, American actor
1974 - Haya bint Hussein, Jordanian princess
1975 - Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist
1975 - Eva Santolaria, Spanish actress
1976 - Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
1978 - Paul Banks, American vocalist (Interpol (band))
1979 - Steve Mack, American pro wrestler
1980 - Zuzana Ondrášková, Czech tennis player
1980 - Marcel Vigneron, American chef (Top Chef)
1981 - Farrah Franklin, American singer (Former member of Destiny's Child)
1983 - Joseph Addai, American football player
1983 - Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer
1983 - Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer
1984 - Nam Sang-mi, South Korean actress and model
1990 - Matthew D Spartz, American artist, musician, and writer
1990 - Jess Nelso, fo sho

Deaths

1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)
1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100)
1270 - King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
1294 - John I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1252/1253)
1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
1598 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
1606 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (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 (b. c. 1692)
1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
1763 - George Psalmanazar, British impostor (b. 1679)
1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712)
1779 - John Winthrop (1714-1779), 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)
1921 - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1958 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
1969 - Zakir Hussain (politician), 3rd President of India, (b. 1897)
1972 - Bruce Cabot, American film director (b. 1904)
1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1988 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates (comic strip), Steve Canyon) (b. 1907)
1989 - Christine Jorgensen, American transexual (b. 1926)
1989 - Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
1991 - Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-born writer (b. 1933)
1992 - George Murphy, American dancer, actor and politician (b. 1902)
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
1996 - Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
1996 - Alex Kellner, American baseball player (b. 1924)
1997 - Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1927)
1999 - Steve Chiasson, Canadian hockey player (b. 1967)
1999 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2000 - John Cardinal O'Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
2001 - Billy Higgins, American drummer (b. 1936)
2002 - Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
2003 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
2004 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2004 - Ken Downing, British racing driver (b. 1917)
2006 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
2006 - Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2007 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
2007 - Wally Schirra, astronaut (b. 1923)
2007 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances

World Press Freedom Day.
Rap Music Day.
National Day of Prayer in the United States
Constitution Day in Poland and Japan.
Discoflux (Discordianism).

Liturgical feast days Roman Catholicism

Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross, aka the Invention of the True Cross.
Saint Apostle Philip
Saint Apostle James the Lesser
Saint Alexander I
Juvenal of Narni (d. 369)
Saint Ansfrid (c. 1008)
Saints Eventius and Alexander, Saint Theodulus (martyrs of 119)
Saint Emily Bicchiere (1238 - 1314
Antonia and Alexander (martyrs of 313)
Black Madonna of Częstochowa Queen and Protector of Poland (since April 1, 1656)

Eastern Orthodox

Theodosius of Kiev

Syriac Orthodox Church

Abhai (saint)

Coptic Church

Saint Sarah

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

May 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 3 is the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days remaining until the end of the year.

Constitution of May 3, 1791 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Constitution of May 3, 1791 (Polish: Konstytucja Trzeciego Maja; Lithuanian: Gegužės trečiosios konstitucija) is generally recognized as Europe 's first and the world's ...

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May 3 and counting . . . Doomsday for Labour | Wiliam Rees-Mogg ...
The Labour Party could be facing a a landslide defeat on May 3 in the elections to the Scottish Parliament and the loss of more than 500 seats in local council elections in England

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Dales Festival of Food and Drink, Yorkshire Dales - May 3/4/5 2003
Annual three-day festival celebrating the food, drink and farming of the Yorkshire Dales during the May Day bank holiday in Leyburn. Includes contacts plus events and activities ...

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Football tours and Football tournaments UK and Europe
Friday 1st May : 3: May Day Weekend £79.00 - £99.00: Pakefield u7 - u13 boys & u10 - u13 girls. Friday 1st May: 3: May Day Weekend £99.00 - £125.00: Prestatyn, Wales