May 3

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 3. From 1900 until now. May 3 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Christina Hendricks (1975), James Brown (1933) and Yves Simon (1944). Several movies were released around May 3 over the years, such as Breaker Morant in 1980 directed by Bruce Beresford and Fox and His Friends in 1975 directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Holidays

Saint Apostle James the Lesser
Black Madonna of Cz?stochowa Queen and Protector of Poland (since April 1, 1656)
Antonia and Alexander (martyrs of 313)
Saint Emily Bicchiere (1238 - 1314
Saints Eventius and Alexander, Saint Theodulus (martyrs of 119)
Saint Ansfrid (c. 1008)
Saint Alexander I
Saint Apostle Philip
Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross, aka the Invention of the True Cross.
Discoflux (Discordianism).
Constitution Day in Poland and Japan.
World Press Freedom Day.
Saint Juvenalis (d. 376)
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Events

2019 Sinclair Broadcast Group buys Fox Sports Networks (FSN) from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. Disney was ordered by the U.S. Justice Department to sell FSN as part of its purchase of 21st Century Fox last year due antitrust concerns over its ownership of ESPN Inc. (The New York Times)
2018 A Palestinian man was arrested by Israel Defence Forces (IDF) while attempting to damage the security fence around the northern Gaza Strip. He was shot and injured during the arrest, and is now receiving medical treatment at Soroka Medical Center. (The Times of Israel)
2017 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): A suicide bombing attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul kills eight civilians and wounds at least 28 people. (Reuters)
2016 Syrian Civil War: A rocket attack hits a hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo, killing three civilians. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack was part of a bigger shelling that killed 19 more people. (Al Jazeera)
2015 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present): Yemen officials say that at least 20 members of the Arab coalition have landed in Aden on a 'reconnaissance' mission. (AP via UT San Diego)
2014 Indian police arrest 29 people after National Democratic Front of Bodoland separatists kill 29 Muslims and burn down homes. (AP via ABC News America)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Israeli warplanes bomb a Syrian weapons facility in an overnight attack. (The New York Times)
2012 Thirty-four people are killed in raids by gunmen opposed to the burning of a colleague at a cattle market in northern Nigeria. (AP via Google News)
2011 Reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden:
2010 Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and waging war against India. (AP) (NDTV)
2009 Nepalese Prime Minister Prachanda resigns. (BBC)
2008 At Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby is held. Race favorite Big Brown wins by nearly five lengths. Second place finisher Eight Belles broke both front ankles, and was immediately euthanized. Race attendance was 157,770, the second-largest in history of the race.
2007 British child Madeleine McCann disappears from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
2006 Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
2005 Two United States Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet jets collide over Iraq while flying a mission in Iraq. The body of one of the pilots is later recovered and an ejected seat was found, but the second one is still missing. (BBC) (Washington Post)
2004 The US is starting to lose its dominance in the sciences; "the rest of the world is catching up", according to John E. Jankowski of the National Science Foundation. Scientists from Europe and now other countries are now publishing more papers in major professional journals than scientists from the U.S.. New York Times p.A1.
2003 The Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation in New Hampshire, USA, crumbles after heavy rain.
2002 A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
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.
2000 In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
1999 The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.
1998 Wins Titleholders Golf Championship
1997 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3.
1996 Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 first wickett Yorks versus Glam.
1995 My Thing of Love opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins.
1993 Kiss of the Spider Woman opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances
1992 Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
1991 356th and final episode of CBS-TV's second-longest-running series Dallas, second only to Gunsmoke.
1988 4,200kg Colombian cocaine is seized at Tarpon Springs, Florida.
1987 Mikado closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
1986 New York Yankees' Don Mattingly is sixth to hit three sacrifice flies in a game.
1985 Date of $5 million check in View to a Kill
1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
1982 US President Ronald Reagan begins five-minute weekly radio broadcasts.
1981 Can-Can closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1980 Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final HR
1979 1st woman Prime Minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II.
1977 The light aircraft carrier ''HMS Invincible'' is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Elizabeth II.
1975 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02.
1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 metres), tops out.
1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1970 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3.
1969 Trumpets of the Lord closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 performances
1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International
1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University.
1966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965 Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles, California)
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational.
1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his I have a dream speech
1962 Express train crashes into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan).
1961 Warren Spahn pitches a two hitter after pitching a no hitter.
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.
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament.
1958 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
1956 Most Happy Fella opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
1954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1952 Call Me Madam closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
1949 First firing of a US Viking rocket; reaches 80 km.
1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams.
1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy.
1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins.
1945 German ship Cap Arcona sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis opens on Broadway
1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
1942 World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1941 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4.
1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1938 Vatican recognizes Francesco Franco as head of Spain.
1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind
1936 New York Yankees' player Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets three hits.
1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1932 24 tourists begin first air-charter holiday (London, England, to Basle, Switzerland).
1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists.
1928 Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1924 Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska
1923 First nonstop transcontinental flight (New York-San Diego) completed.
1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk.
1921 West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
1920 A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain.
1916 The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
1913 Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
1909 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2.
1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey.
1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75.
1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville Florida.
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Famous Birthday

Christina Hendricks: American actress.
James Brown: American recording artist and musician.
Yves Simon: French singer and writer, he has...
Bing Crosby: American singer who was a world famed...
Georges Moustaki: French singer-songwriter of Greek...
Sugar Ray Robinson: American boxer (d. 1989).
Pete Seeger: American folk singer.
Mikhail Prokhorov: Russian self-made businessman.
Frankie Valli
Nathalie Renoux
Jean Lassalle
Myriam Fares: Lebanese singer.
Christophe Rippert
Marie-Soleil Tougas: Canadian actress, noted for her TV...
Martin Bouygues: French busynessman, chairman and chief...
Véronique Nichanian: French fashion designer, artistic...
Farrah Franklin: American singer (former member of...
Selah Sue
Jean Guidoni
Bobby Cannavale: Movie Actor.
Damon Dash: American label executive.
Frédéric Bouraly
Stéphanie Foretz
Dulé Hill: American actor dancer and producer.
Jean Carlu: French graphic designer-artist who...
Jaycee Dugard: American kidnapping victim, she was...
Pierre Lellouche
Cheryl Burke: American dancer and choreographer whose...
Ann B Davis
Mary Astor: American actress, on-screen from 1920.
Amédée Domenech
Philippe Parès
J Tillman: American singer-songwriter and guitarist...
Jeff Hornacek: American basketball player, known for...
Geneviève Guitry: French actress, the fourth of the five...
René Huyghe: French writer on the history, psychology...
Roger Meï: French politician who has been mayor of...
Agnès Desarthe
Ben Elton: British left-wing comedian, scriptwriter...
Michel Roussin: French politician, minister of...
Christopher Cross: American singer-songwriter and producer.
Ramón (singer)
Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
Pierre Emmanuel: French poet of Christian inspiration.
Madame Billy
Norman Thelwell
Henry Cooper: British pro boxer for 17 years with his...
Gérard Saumade
Louis Tobback
Cactus Moser
Poppy Delevingne
Aurélie Perrillat-Colomb
Mary Hopkin: Welsh singer-songwriter.
François-David Cardonnel
DH Barber: British journalist and magazine...
Jérôme Clavier: French pole vaulter.
David H Koch
Ron Brown (Scottish politician)
Jeanne Bal
Aldo Rossi: Italian architect (Born 1931).
Kirsty Wark: Scottish political TV journalist who...
John Lewis (pianist)
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier: French journalist author and poet.
Jean-Marc Roberts: French editor, novelist, and...
Alfred Kastler: French nuclear physicist who discovered...
Steven Weinberg: American physicist and academic Nobel...
Julien Guiomar
Black Sea plane crash
Ryan Dempster: Canadian baseball player and...
Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb
Danila Kozlovsky: Movie Actor.
Ron Eisenberg: American radio talk show host until...
May Sarton: Belgian-American author with seven...
Gino Cervi: Italian actor of both stage and screen.
Paul Banks (singer)
Zoë Belkin
Kristin Lehman: Actress.
Walter Slezak: Austrian-American actor who won a Tony...
Jean-Louis Idiart
Pom Klementieff
Anna Roosevelt: American political family, the first and...
Auguste Mallet: France sport Champion.
George Winslow
Ousama Rawi
Steffen Schleiermacher
Marc Dugain
Lynn Farleigh: Bristol, England -- Actress (Lovers of...
Albert Sacco: American astronaut who blasted into...
William Inge: American writer, a playwright and...
Bob Havens
Freddie Roulette
Alex Cord: American actor.
Mel Lazarus: American author, artist and cartoonist.
Jean Marsaudon
Maryam Mirzakhani
Irene Rosenfeld
Odette Casanova
Richard Lippold: American sculptor, known for his...
Steve McClaren: English footballer and manager.
Brad Martin: American musician.
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Famous Deaths

Narciso Yepes: Spanish guitarist and composer (d....
Jerzy Kosinski: Polish-born American novelist (d. 1991).
Anthony Ainley: British actor (Born 1932).
John Joseph O'Connor: Cardinal Archbishop of New York (Born...
Jackie Cooper: American actor on-screen from age three...
Robert Alda: American-born actor (Dan Lewis -...
Billy Higgins: American drummer and educator (d. 2001).
Yolande Christina Dalida: Dies at 54.
Muriel Ostriche
Jersy Kosinski: Author (Being There), dies at 57.
Margaret Tallichet: Actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor).
Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof: Mayor of Maarn, dies at 78.
David R Capriles Cura?aos director of psychiatric: dies at age 64.
[Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener: German general, dies at age 71.
Philips C Visser: explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies.
Otto Forst de Battaglia: Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at...
Leaders of the Easter Rising\ \ Tom Clarke: Irish Nationalist, Leader and Organiser...
Charlie Soong: Christian missionary.
Theodore Pilette: Belgian racing driver (Born 1883).
Mohammed Abdel Wahab: Egyptian singer and composer (Born...
Sebastien Enjolras: French racing driver (Born 1976).
Julia Bathory: Hungarian glass-designer (Born 1901).
Evgeny Svetlanov: Russian composer and pianist (Born...
Ton Lutz: Dutch actor (Born 1919).
Guenter Wendt: German-American engineer (Born1923).
Ram Shewalkar: Indian Marathi writer (Born1931).
Sergo Kotrikadze: Georgian footballer (Born 1936).
Artie Shaw: American jazz musician, a clarinetist,...
Knock Yokoyama: Japanese comedian and politician (Born...
Godfrey Evans: English cricketer (Born 1920).
Alex Kellner: American baseball player (Born 1924).
Warja Honegger-Lavater: Swiss artist and illustrator (d. 2007).
Ken Downing: English race car driver (d. 2004).
Anton Wildgans: Austr writer (Dies Irae) / director...
Ernie Nevers: NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago...
George Murphy: American politician...
Johan H Westerveld: Lieutenant Colonel / leader Order...
Thorvald Stauning: Danish union leader and politician 24th...
Leslie Heward: Composer, dies at 45.
Wylie Watson: Dies at 77.
Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev: Composer, dies at 86.
David Bruce: Dies at 62.
Howard Spring: British Author (Heaven Lies About Us),...
Imre Vincze: Composer, dies at 42.
Peter Bruni: Dies of heart failure at 60.
Michael Horden: Actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at...
Edward Ochab: Polish Communist politician (Born 1906).
Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo: Spanish former Prime Minister (Born...
Napoleon V Bonaparte: French pretender to the throne, dies at...
Louis L H de Visser: Dutch Member of Parliament (CPN), dies...
Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty: French philosopher, dies at age 53.
Samuel Gonard: chairman (International Red Cross), dies...
Wim van Doorne: Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at...
Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov]: patriarch of Russian-orthodox church,...
Gerrit Mik: child psychiatrist/Dutch Member of...
Elizabeth Lennox: radio singer, dies of heart seizure at...
Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker: Dutch Member of Parliament (CDA), dies...
Milford Dolliole: pioneer jazz drummer, dies at age 90.
Timothy Gullikson: tennis player/coach, dies at age 45.
Les Harvey: Scottish musician, guitarist and member...
Candelario Huizar: Mexican musician, horn player, composer...
Zakir Hussain: Indian academic and politician 3rd...
Roy Carrier: American Zydeco musician (Born 1947).
Steve Chiasson: Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1967).
Thanasis Veggos: Greek actor and director (d. 2011).
Bill Downs: American broadcast journalist (Born...
Darrell Johnson: American baseball player coach and...
Joe Adcock: American baseball player and manager (d....
Dimitri Fampas: Greek guitarist and composer (d. 1996).
Diana Wynyard: English actress (d. 1964).
Jack Weston: American actor, the first child in his...
Frank Hoyt Losey: Composer, dies at 59.
Bruce Cabot: Carlsbad, New Mexico -- Actor (Diamonds...
Otto Winter-Hjelm: Composer, dies at 93.
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