What are the important events that happened on May 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 3: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 3 is the 123rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 20, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,746,230,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaicosatrigon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 290 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,516 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 3 Historical Events
- 1791 –The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1808 –Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
- 1815 –Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
- 1928 –Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
- 1951 –The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
- 1963 –The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the “Birmingham campaign” protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
- 1978 –The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as “spam”) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
- 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.
- 2000 –The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
- 2002 –A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
Who were born on May 3?
- 1446 –Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503)
- 1857 –George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933)
- 1892 –George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1923 –George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist and conductor
- 1925 –Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (d. 2007)
- 1953 –Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement)
- 1961 –David Vitter, American politician
- 1965 –John Jensen, Danish footballer
- 1974 –Peter Everitt, Australian football player
- 1990 –Levi Johnston, American actor and model; former fiancé of Bristol Palin
Who died on May 3?
- 1481 –Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
- 1972 –Bruce Cabot, American film actor (b. 1904)
- 1987 –Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
- 2002 –Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
- 2004 –Ken Downing, British racing driver (b. 1917)
- 2007 –Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
- 2010 –Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (b. 1923)
- 2010 –Roy Carrier, American Zydeco musician (b. 1947)
- 2011 –Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer (b. 1936)
- 2011 –Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor (b. 1927)
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