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 124th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 20, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,714,694,400 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 ‘hectaicosatetragon’ 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 271 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 4,151 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.
- 1802 –Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
- 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 and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
- 1837 –The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
- 1915 –The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
- 1937 –Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 1947 –New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- 1973 –The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
- 2003 –New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
Who were born on May 3?
- 1919 –Pete Seeger, American singer
- 1923 –Ralph Hall, American politician
- 1925 –Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (d. 2007)
- 1933 –James Brown, American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
- 1934 –Georges Moustaki, Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter
- 1940 –David Koch, American businessman, politician
- 1942 –Dave Marash, American journalist
- 1951 –Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
- 1959 –David Ball, English musician (Soft Cell)
- 1978 –Autumn Phillips, member of the British royal family
Who died on May 3?
- 1270 –King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
- 1481 –Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
- 1693 –Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
- 1779 –John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
- 1910 –Howard Taylor Ricketts, American bacteriologist. (b. 1871)
- 1921 –Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
- 1989 –Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
- 1997 –Sébastien Enjolras, French racing driver (b. 1976)
- 2009 –Ton Lutz, Dutch actor (b. 1919)
- 2010 –Roy Carrier, American Zydeco musician (b. 1947)
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