May 3 Zodiac, Events, Birthdays and Holidays

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 City on Fire in 2023 directed by Alvin Rakoff and Black Knight in 2023 directed by Gil Junger.
But much more happened on May 3 over the years: find out below

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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 purchases Fox Sports Networks (FSN), from The Walt Disney Company, for $10.6 billion. The U.S. Justice Department ordered Disney to sell FSN in connection with its purchase of 21st Century Fox. This was due to antitrust concerns regarding its ownership of ESPN Inc.
2018 Israel Defence Forces (IDF), while trying to breach the security fence surrounding the northern Gaza Strip, arrested a Palestinian man. He sustained injuries and was shot during his arrest.
2017 Afghanistan War (2001-present). Eight civilians are killed and 28 others are injured in a suicide bombing attack on a NATO convoy.
2016 Three civilians are killed in a rocket attack on a hospital in Aleppo, Syria during the Syrian Civil War. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the attack was part a larger shelling campaign that claimed 19 more lives.
2015 Yemeni Civil War (2015)-present: Yemeni officials claim that at least 20 Arab coalition members have arrived in Aden as part of a'reconnaissance mission'.
2014 Indian police arrested 29 people following the murder of 29 Muslims by National Democratic Front of Bodoland separatists and their burning of homes.
2013 Syrian civil war: Israeli warplanes bomb an weapons facility in Syria overnight.
2012 Threety-four people are killed by gunmen who oppose the burning of a colleague at a northern Nigeria cattle market.
2011 Reaction to Osama bin Laden's death:
2010 Ajmal Kasab is the sole surviving terrorist who was involved in the attacks on Mumbai in 2008. He has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder and waging war against India.
2009 Nepalese Prime Minister Prachanda resigns.
2008 The 134th Kentucky Derby takes place at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. Big Brown, the favorite of the race, wins by almost five lengths. Eight Belles, second place finisher, broke both of her front ankles and was immediately put down. The race attendance was 157.770, which is the second largest in the history of the race.
2007 British child Madeleine McCann disappears from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
2006 Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life imprisonment in Alexandria, Virginia.
2005 Two F/A-18 Hornet F/A-18 Marine Corps jets collided over Iraq during a mission in Iraq. One of the pilots was later found dead and an ejected chair was recovered. The second seat is still missing.
2004 The US is losing its leadership in science and technology; John E. Jankowski, National Science Foundation, says that "the rest is catching up". New York Times, p.A1.
2003 After heavy rain, the Old Man of the Mountain is a rock formation in New Hampshire.
2002 Eight people were killed when a MiG-21 military aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan, India.
2001 The United States is losing its seat at the U.N. Human Rights Commission, for the first time since 1947 when the commission was established.
2000 Datapoint, a computer pioneer from San Antonio, Texas 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
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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