May 3

Events

• 1494 - Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica
• 1791 - The Constitution of the third of May (first Polish constitution) is proclaimed by the Polish Sejm (Parliament)
• 1808 - The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia, during the Finnish War.
• 1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont
• 1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island
• 1912 - The first victims of the RMS Titanic are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins
• 1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
• 1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect
• 1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens
• 1952 - Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant Colonel 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
• 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech
• 1968 - A Braniff International Electra crashes during a storm near Dawson, Texas killing 85
• 1971 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
• 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed
• 2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Births

• 612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor
• 1469 - Nicolò Machiavelli, historian and political author († 1527)
• 1662 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, master builder († 1736)
• 1761 - August von Kotzebue, dramatist († 1819)
• 1861 - Emmett Dalton, outlaw († 1937)
• 1893 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor († 1975)
• 1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
• 1903 - Bing Crosby, singer († 1977)
• 1906 - Mary Astor, actress († 1987)
• 1913 - William Inge, playwright († 1973)
• 1919 - Pete Seeger, singer
• 1919 - Betty Comden, lyricist
• 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer († 1989)
• 1921 - Joe Ames, singer
• 1928 - James Brown, singer
• 1937 - Frankie Valli, singer
• 1955 - David Hookes, cricketer († 2004)
• 1959 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author
• 1959 - Uma Bharati, first woman chief minister of Madhya Pradesh
• 1962 - Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder

Deaths

• 1925 - Clément Ader - french engineer and inventor
• 1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark
• 1987 - Dalida, French singer
• 1989 - Christine Jorgensen, transsexual
• 1991 - Jerzy Kosinski, writer

Holidays and observances

• World Press Freedom Day
• Invention of the True Cross, in Roman Catholicism
• Poland – The Constitution Day

External links

• External list of US polititians who were born on May 3.

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