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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.
- 1481
- The largest of three
earthquakes
strikes the Greek island of
Rhodes
, killing an estimated 30,000 people.
- 1491
-
Kongo
monarch
Nkuwu Nzinga
is baptized by Portuguese missionaries.
- 1494
?
Christopher Columbus
arrives in
Jamaica
, naming the island Santiago.
- 1715
- A total
solar eclipse
is visible across Northern
Europe
and Northern
Asia
, with totality across southern
England
being predicted by
Edmond Halley
to within four minutes of accuracy.
- 1791
?
Poland
's first
constitution
is introduced. May 3 is still celebrated as
Constitution Day
in
Poland
, as well as in neighboring
Lithuania
.
- 1802
-
Washington, DC
is incorporated as a
city
.
- 1808
? Rebels in
Madrid
, who rose up on the previous day, against French rule, are executed.
- 1808
-
Finnish War
:
Sweden
loses the fortress of
Sveaborg
to
Russia
.
- 1815
-
Neapolitan War
:
Joachim Murat
,
King
of
Naples
, is defeated by the
Austrians
at the
Battle of Tolentino
, the decisive engagement of the
war
.
- 1830
- The
Canterbury
-
Whitstable
Railway
in Southern
England
is opened. It is the first steam-hauled
passenger
railway to issue season tickets and include a
tunnel
.
- 1837
- The
University of Athens
,
Greece
, is founded.
- 1849
? The May uprising begins in
Dresden
.
- 1855
- The
adventurer
William Walker
departs from
San Francisco
with around 60 men in an attempt to conquer
Nicaragua
.
- 1860
- King
Charles XV of Sweden-Norway
is crowned.
- 1867
-
Hudson's Bay Company
gives up all claims to
Vancouver Island
.
- 1887
?
Canada
's worst mining disaster occurs in
Nanaimo
, on
Vancouver Island
. 150 people are killed, and 7 survive.
- 1901
- The Great Fire of
1901
begins in
Jacksonville, Florida
.
- 1909
?
Germany
introduces driver's licences.
- 1913
-
Raja Harishchandra
, the first full-length
Indian
feature
movie
, is released, marking the start of the Indian movie industry.
- 1915
- The
poem
In Flanders Fields
is written by
John McCrae
.
- 1916
? In
Ireland
, the leaders of the
Easter
Uprising are executed.
- 1920
- A
Bolshevik
coup fails in
Georgia
.
- 1934
? The French
navy
introduces
Surcouf
, which was the largest
submarine
at the time.
- 1936
?
Joe DiMaggio
makes his
Major League Baseball
debut, for the
New York Yankees
.
- 1937
-
Margaret Mitchell
's
novel
Gone With the Wind
wins the
Pulitzer Prize
for
fiction
.
- 1939
- The
All India Forward Bloc
is founded by
Subhas Chandra Bose
.
- 1945
-
World War II
: Sinking of the prison
ships
Cap Arcona
,
Thielbeck
and
Deutschland
by the
Royal Air Force
in Lubeck Bay.
- 1947
?
Japan
's new post-war
constitution
goes into effect.
- 1951
?
George VI of the United Kingdom
opens the Festival of Britain.
London
's
Royal Festival Hall
opens on the same day.
- 1952
-
Lieutenant
Colonels
Joseph O. Fletcher
and
William P. Benedict
of the
US
land a
plane
at the
North Pole
.
- 1952
- The
Kentucky Derby
horse
race is shown on
television
throughout the
US
for the first time.
- 1956
- The first World Championships in
judo
take place in
Tokyo
.
- 1960
? In
Amsterdam
, the
Netherlands
the
Anne Frank House
is opened to the public.
- 1960
- Off-
Broadway
musical
comedy
The Fantasticks
opens in
New York City
's
Greenwich Village
.
- 1973
? The
Sears Tower
in
Chicago
is completed.
- 1978
- The first
Spam
email
is sent by a Digital
Equipment
Corporation
marketing representative to every
ARPANET
address on the
west
coast
of the
United States
.
- 1979
?
Margaret Thatcher
is elected
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
, becoming the first female British Prime Minister.
- 1986
? A bomb explodes on an airliner at
Colombo
's
airport
in
Sri Lanka
, killing 21 people, and injuring 41.
- 1999
- The southwestern portion of
Oklahoma City
is devastated by a Force-5
tornado
, killing 45 people and injuring 665.
- 2001
? For the first time, the
United States
loses its seat on the
United Nations Human Rights Commission
.
- 2002
- A
military
MiG-21
aircraft
crashes into the Bank of
Rajasthan
, in Northwest
India
, killing 8 people.
- 2003
?
New Hampshire
's
Old Man of the Mountain
rock feature collapses.
- 2006
- While landing in
Sochi
, Southern
Russia
, an Airbus A320-200 of
Armenian
airline
Armavia crashes into the
Black Sea
, killing all 113 people on board.
- 2007
? The
Scottish National Party
, under
Alex Salmond
, narrowly wins in the election to the
Scottish Parliament
.
- 2007
?
Madeleine McCann
gets abducted from an apartment in Praia da Luz,
Portugal
.
- 2008
?
Cyclone Nargis
devastates
Burma
, killing thousands of people, and causing widespread flooding in the
Irrawaddy River
Delta.
- 2014
- The
Black Forest
National Park
is officially opened.
- 2018
-
Dust
storms in
Rajasthan
an
Uttar Pradesh
,
India
, kill at least 100 people.
- 2019
- The number of deaths in the South Kivu
Ebola
outbreak in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
is estimated at 1,000, making it the second-deadliest outbreak of the disease.
- 2019
-
Cyclone
Fani hits the state of
Odisha
on the east coast of
India
.
- 612
?
Constantine III
,
Byzantine Emperor
(d.
641
)
- 1415
?
Cecily Neville
, mother of
Edward IV
and
Richard III of England
(d.
1495
)
- 1428
-
Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza
, Spanish
cardinal
and
statesman
(d.
1495
)
- 1446
-
Margaret of York
(d.
1503
)
- 1455
? King
John I of Portugal
(d.
1495
)
- 1460
-
Raffaele Riario
, Italian
cardinal
and patron of the arts (d.
1521
)
- 1469
?
Niccolo Machiavelli
, Italian
philosopher
(d.
1527
)
- 1678
-
Amaro Pargo
, Spanish pirate (d.
1747
)
- 1695
?
Henri Pitot
, Italian-born French engineer (d.
1771
)
- 1713
-
Alexis Clairaut
, French
mathematician
(d.
1765
)
- 1729
-
Florian Leopold Gassmann
, German-
Bohemian
composer (d.
1774
)
- 1761
?
August von Kotzebue
, German dramatist (d.
1819
)
- 1764
-
Princess Elisabeth of France
(d.
1794
)
- 1768
-
Charles Tennant
, Scottish
chemist
(d.
1838
)
- 1768
-
Agustin Eyzaguirre
, acting
President of Chile
(d.
1838
)
- 1773
-
Giuseppe Acerbi
, Italian
naturalist
(d.
1846
)
- 1784
-
Henry Hubbard
,
Governor
of
New Hampshire
(d.
1857
)
- 1814
-
Adams George Archibald
, Canadian
lawyer
and
politician
(d.
1892
)
- 1826
? King
Charles XV of Sweden
(d.
1872
)
- 1841
-
Richard D'Oyly Carte
, English
talent
agent, impresario and
composer
(d.
1901
)
- 1849
?
Bertha Benz
, German automobile pioneer (d.
1944
)
- 1849
?
Bernhard von Buelow
,
Chancellor of Germany
(d.
1929
)
- 1860
?
John Scott Haldane
, British
physiologist
(d.
1936
)
- 1860
?
Vito Volterra
, Italian
mathematician
and
physicist
(d.
1940
)
- 1861
-
Emmett Dalton
, American outlaw (d.
1937
)
- 1870
?
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
(d.
1948
)
- 1872
?
Simun av Skardi
,
Faroese
poet
and
politician
(d.
1942
)
- 1873
-
Pavlo Skoropadskyi
, German-Ukrainian general and politician (d.
1945
)
- 1874
?
Francois Coty
, French
perfume
manufacturer (d.
1934
)
- 1877
?
Karl Abraham
, German
psychoanalyst
(d.
1925
)
- 1879
-
Fergus McMaster
, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founder of
Qantas
(d.
1950
)
- 1879
-
Clyde L. Herring
, American politician, 26th
Governor
of
Iowa
(d.
1945
)
- 1884
-
Willie Reid
, Scottish
footballer
(d.
1966
)
- 1886
?
Marcel Dupre
, French organist and composer (d.
1971
)
- 1891
?
Tadeusz Peiper
, Polish
poet
(d.
1969
)
- 1892
?
George Paget Thomson
, English
physicist
(d.
1975
)
- 1893
?
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
, Georgian writer (d.
1975
)
- 1895
-
Cornelius Van Til
, Dutch
theologian
and
philosopher
(d.
1987
)
- 1895
-
Gabriel Chevallier
, French
journalist
and
writer
(d.
1969
)
- 1895
-
Bettina Encke von Arnim
, German painter (d.
1971
)
- 1896
?
Dodie Smith
, English novelist and
playwright
(d.
1990
)
- 1898
?
Golda Meir
,
Prime Minister
of
Israel
(d.
1978
)
- 1901
-
Gino Cervi
, Italian actor (d.
1974
)
- 1901
-
Ebbe Schwartz
, Danish
football
official,
President
of
UEFA
(d.
1964
)
- 1902
?
Alfred Kastler
, French
physicist
(d.
1984
)
- 1903
?
Bing Crosby
, American singer and actor (d.
1977
)
- 1905
?
Werner Fenchel
, German
mathematician
(d.
1988
)
- 1906
?
Mary Astor
, American actress (d.
1987
)
- 1909
-
John A. Notte, Jr.
, American politician,
Governor
of
Rhode Island
(d.
1983
)
- 1910
?
Norman Corwin
, American
radio
presenter (d.
2011
)
- 1914
-
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
, French
poet
- 1917
?
Kiro Gligorov
, former
President
of the
Republic of Macedonia
(d.
2012
)
- 1919
?
Pete Seeger
, American musician (d.
2014
)
- 1920
-
John Lewis
, American
jazz
pianist
,
composer
and arranger (d.
2001
)
- 1921
?
Sugar Ray Robinson
, American boxer (d.
1989
)
- 1922
?
Len Shackleton
, English
footballer
(d.
2000
)
- 1923
-
George Hadjinikos
, Greek
pianist
,
conductor
,
teacher
and
writer
- 1924
-
Ken Tyrrell
, English racing driver (d.
2001
)
- 1926
-
Ann B. Davis
, American actress (d.
2014
)
- 1927
-
Clelio Darida
, Italian politician,
Mayor
of
Rome
(d.
2017
)
- 1928
-
Jacques-Louis Lions
, French
mathematician
(d.
2001
)
- 1928
-
Carel Visser
, Dutch
artist
(d.
2015
)
- 1930
-
Juan Gelman
, Argentine
writer
and
poet
(d.
2014
)
- 1931
-
Aldo Rossi
, Italian
architect
and
designer
(d.
1997
)
- 1933
?
James Brown
, American singer (d.
2006
)
- 1933
?
Steven Weinberg
, American
physicist
- 1934
?
Henry Cooper
, British boxer (d.
2011
)
- 1934
-
Frankie Valli
, American singer
- 1934
-
Georges Moustaki
, French
singer-songwriter
(d.
2013
)
- 1937
?
Hans Cieslarczyk
, German footballer
- 1938
-
Lindsay Kemp
, English
actor
,
dancer
and
choreographer
(d.
2018
)
- 1941
-
Nona Gaprindashvili
,
Georgian
chess
player
- 1941
-
Edward Malloy
, American educator
- 1942
?
Butch Otter
, American politician, 32nd
Governor
of
Idaho
- 1943
-
Jim Risch
, American lawyer and politician, 31st
Governor
of
Idaho
- 1945
-
Jeffrey C. Hall
, American
geneticist
, 2017 joint-
Nobel
laureate
- 1946
?
Rabah Saadane
,
Algerian
footballer and coach
- 1947
-
Doug Henning
, Canadian magician (d.
2000
)
- 1948
-
Peter Oosterhius
, English
golfer
- 1949
?
Ken Hom
, Chinese-American chef
- 1951
?
Jan Bielecki
, Polish politician
- 1951
?
Tatyana Tolstaya
, Russian writer
- 1951
-
Christopher Cross
, American
singer-songwriter
,
musician
and
producer
- 1951
-
Ashok Gehlot
, Indian politician, 21st
Chief Minister
of
Rajasthan
- 1952
?
Chuck Baldwin
, American politician, pastor and radio host
- 1952
-
Allan Wells
, Scottish runner
- 1956
?
Marc Bellemare
, French-Canadian lawyer and politician
- 1958
?
Sandi Toksvig
, Danish writer and broadcaster
- 1959
?
Ben Elton
, English comedian and writer
- 1959
-
David Ball
, English
keyboardist
and
producer
(
Soft Cell
)
- 1960
-
Kathy Smallwood-Cook
, English athlete
- 1961
?
Steve McClaren
, English football manager
- 1963
-
Mona Siddiqui
, Pakistani-born British academic and journalist
- 1964
-
Ron Hextall
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1964
-
Sterling Campbell
, American
drummer
and
songwriter
- 1965
?
Rob Brydon
, Welsh comedian, actor and presenter
- 1965
-
Ignatius Aphrem I
, Syrian
patriarch
- 1965
-
Mikhail Prokhorov
, Russian multi
billionaire
and
politician
- 1966
-
Darren Morgan
, Welsh
snooker
player
- 1970
-
Bobby Cannavale
, American actor
- 1970
-
Suzi Perry
, English model, columnist and
motor racing
presenter
- 1971
-
Douglas Carswell
, English
politician
, first
UKIP
MP
- 1972
-
Stephen Barclay
, English politician
- 1973
-
Rea Garvey
, Irish-German singer
- 1974
?
Jukka Hentunen
, Finnish
ice hockey
player
- 1975
-
Christina Hendricks
, American actress
- 1976
?
Beto
, Portuguese footballer
- 1976
-
Alexander Gerst
, German
geophysicist
,
volcanologist
and
astronaut
- 1977
-
Mashima Hiro
, Japanese
manga
artist
- 1977
-
Ben Olsen
, American
soccer
player
- 1977
-
Maryam Mirzakhani
, Iranian
mathematician
(d.
2017
)
- 1978
-
Dule Hill
, American actor and tap dancer
- 1978
?
Autumn Phillips
, Canadian-born member of the extended British Royal Family
- 1978
-
Paul Banks
, English-born musician
- 1978
-
Lawrence Tynes
, Scottish
American football
player
- 1979
?
Simone Hauswald
, German
biathlete
- 1979
-
Genevieve Nnaji
, Nigerian
actress
and
singer
- 1980
?
Jaycee Lee Dugard
, American kidnap victim
- 1981
?
Farrah Franklin
, American actress and singer
- 1981
-
U-Nee
, South Korean singer, dancer and actress (d.
2007
)
- 1981
-
Benoit Cheyrou
, French footballer
- 1983
?
Marton Fulop
, Hungarian footballer (d.
2014
)
- 1983
?
Laava
, Brazilian singer
- 1983
?
Joseph Addai
,
American Football
player
- 1983
-
Myriam Fares
,
Lebanese
singer
and entertainer
- 1984
-
Cheryl Burke
, American dancer
- 1985
-
Ezequiel Lavezzi
, Argentine footballer
- 1985
-
Meagan Tandy
, American
model
and
actress
- 1987
-
Lina Grincikaite
,
Lithuanian
sprinter
- 1987
-
Joey Montana
,
Panamanian
singer
- 1989
?
Selah Sue
, Belgian singer
- 1990
-
Miranda Chartrand
, Canadian-English singer
- 1990
-
Brooks Koepka
, American
golfer
- 1996
-
Alex Iwobi
, Nigerian
footballer
- 1996
-
Noah Munck
, American actor and musician
- 1996
-
Domantas Sabonis
,
Lithuanian
basketball
player
- 1152
-
Matilda of Boulogne
(b.
1105
)
- 1160
-
Peter Lombard
, Italian scholar and bishop (b.
1100
)
- 1270
?
Bela IV of Hungary
(b.
1206
)
- 1294
-
John I, Duke of Brabant
(b.
1252
)
- 1481
?
Mehmed II
,
Ottoman
Sultan
(b.
1432
)
- 1598
-
Anna Guarini
, Italian singer (b.
1563
)
- 1616
?
William Shakespeare
, English writer and
playwright
(b.
1564
),
April 23
in
Julian calendar
- 1704
-
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
,
Bohemian
composer (b.
1644
)
- 1724
-
John Leverett the Younger
, American lawyer, politician and educator (b.
1662
)
- 1752
-
Samuel Ogle
, English-American politician (b.
1692
)
- 1758
?
Pope Benedict XIV
(b.
1675
)
- 1764
-
Francesco Algarotti
, Italian
philosopher
(b.
1712
)
- 1779
-
John Winthrop
, American
mathematician
,
physicist
and
astronomer
(b.
1714
)
- 1839
-
Ferdinando Paer
, Italian
composer
(b.
1771
)
- 1856
-
Adolphe Adam
, French
composer
and
critic
(b.
1803
)
- 1886
-
Alexander Karadordevic, Prince of Serbia
(b.
1806
)
- 1910
-
John Lourie Beveridge
, 17th
Governor
of
Illinois
(b.
1824
)
- 1916
?
Tom Clarke
, Irish nationalist (b.
1858
)
- 1916
?
Thomas MacDonagh
, Irish nationalist (b.
1878
)
- 1916
?
Patrick Pearse
, Irish nationalist and poet (b.
1879
)
- 1932
-
Charles Fort
, American author (b.
1874
)
- 1938
-
Percy Funivall
, English
cyclist
(b.
1867
)
- 1939
-
Madeleine Desroseaux
, French
poet
and
novelist
(b.
1873
)
- 1942
?
Thorvald Stauning
,
Prime Minister
of
Denmark
(b.
1873
)
- 1943
-
Harry Miller
, American
engineer
(b.
1875
)
- 1948
-
Ernst Tandefelt
, Finnish
nobleman
(b.
1876
)
- 1961
-
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
, French
philosopher
(b.
1908
)
- 1969
?
Zakir Hussain
, 3rd
President of India
(b.
1897
)
- 1970
-
Cemil Gurgen Erlerturk
, Turkish
footballer
(b.
1918
)
- 1972
-
Emil Breitkreuz
, American middle-distance runner (b.
1883
)
- 1972
?
Bruce Cabot
, American actor (b.
1904
)
- 1976
-
Ernie Nevers
,
American football
player (b.
1903
)
- 1987
?
Dalida
, French singer (b.
1933
)
- 1988
?
Lev Semenovich Pontryagin
, Russian mathematician (b.
1908
)
- 1989
-
Christine Jorgensen
, American trans woman (b.
1926
)
- 1991
?
Jerzy Kosinski
, Polish writer (b.
1933
)
- 1996
?
Jack Weston
, American actor (b.
1924
)
- 1997
?
Narciso Yepes
, Spanish
guitarist
(b.
1927
)
- 2002
?
Barbara Castle
, British politician (b.
1910
)
- 2006
?
Karel Appel
, Dutch painter (b.
1925
)
- 2006
?
Earl Woods
, father of
Tiger Woods
(b.
1932
)
- 2007
?
Wally Schirra
, American
astronaut
(b.
1923
)
- 2008
?
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
,
Prime Minister
of
Spain
(b.
1926
)
- 2010
?
Florencio Campomanes
,
Filipino
chess
player and official (b.
1927
)
- 2010
?
Guenter Wendt
, German-American
NASA
engineer (b.
1923
)
- 2011
?
Jackie Cooper
, American actor (b.
1922
)
- 2011
-
Robert Brout
, Belgian
physicist
(b.
1928
)
- 2012
?
Jorge Illueca
, former
President
of
Panama
(b.
1918
)
- 2012
?
Lloyd Brevett
, Jamaican musician (b.
1931
)
- 2013
-
Cedric Brooks
, Jamaican-American saxophonist (b.
1943
)
- 2014
-
Gary Becker
, American
economist
(b.
1930
)
- 2014
-
Jim Oberstar
, American politician (b.
1934
)
- 2015
-
Abdul Wahid Aresar
, Pakistani politician (b.
1949
)
- 2015
-
Danny Jones
, Welsh
rugby league
player (b.
1986
)
- 2015
-
Revaz Chkheidze
,
Georgian
film
director
(b.
1926
)
- 2015
-
Abdul Basit Usman
, Filipino fugitive (b.
1974
)
- 2015
-
Harry Martin
, American judge (b.
1920
)
- 2015
-
John Elders
, English
rugby union
player (b.
1930
)
- 2016
-
Ian Deans
, Scottish-Canadian politician (b.
1937
)
- 2016
-
Abel Fernandez
, American actor (b.
1930
)
- 2016
-
Marianne Gaba
, American model and actress (b.
1939
)
- 2016
-
Kaname Harada
, Japanese
World War II
flying ace and anti-war activist (b.
1916
)
- 2016
-
Karol Machata
, Slovakian actor (b.
1928
)
- 2016
-
Nicolas Noxon
, American filmmaker (b.
1936
)
- 2016
-
Janusz Tazbir
, Polish historian (b.
1927
)
- 2017
-
Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
, Saudi prince and politician (b.
1926
)
- 2017
-
Lukas Ammann
, Swiss actor (b.
1912
)
- 2017
-
Daliah Lavi
, Israeli actress, singer and politician (b.
1942
)
- 2017
-
Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji
, Somali politician (b.
1985
)
- 2017
-
Yumeji Tsukioka
, Japanese actress (b.
1921
)
- 2018
-
Doina Cornea
, Romanian activist (b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
Afonso Dhlakama
, Mozambican politician (b.
1953
)
- 2019
-
Frits Soetekouw
, Dutch
footballer
(b.
1938
)
- 2019
-
Goro Shimura
, Japanese
mathematician
(b.
1930
)