A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on May 3 throughout history.
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Constitution of May 3 is proclaimed by the Great Sejm (Parliament) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the first modern constitution in Europe
Day depicted by Spanish painter Francisco Goya in his "The Third of May," which he paints in 1814
Britain's Trade Union Congress calls for the country's first-ever general strike, begins at 1 minute to midnight in support of striking coal miners and lasts 9 days
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936.
German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona, laden with prisoners, is sunk by the Royal Air Force in the western Baltic Sea, killing 5,800 people in one of the largest maritime losses of life in World War II
Japan's post-war constitution goes into effect, granting universal suffrage, stripping Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power and outlawing Japan's right to make war
"Going My Way," directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby, premieres in New York (Academy Award for Best Picture, 1945)
Musical "The Fantasticks" by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones opens in Greenwich Village, NYC, becomes “the longest-running musical in the universe”
Lady Gaga's free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, draws crowd estimated at 2.5 million attendees, the largest concert in history for a female artist; police later reveal they thwarted a bombing attempt
World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Stephen Hendry of Scotland defeats Welshman Mark Williams 18-11 for a record seventh world crown
American mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (28) weds Louise M. Spooner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
American-English businessman Waldorf Astor (26) weds fellow American-English socialite Nancy Langhorne Shaw (26) at All Souls Church in London, England, until his death in 1952
American Mousketeer-actress-singer Annette Funicello (43) weds American harness racing horse breeder and trainer Glen Holt (55), until her death in 2013
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his...
BC Solar eclipse (2m 07s) seen at Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers "On the day of the new moon, in the month of Hiyar, the Sun was put to shame, and went down in the daytime, with Mars in attendance."
Maya ruler 18 Rabbit of Copán is captured and beheaded by his former vassal Cauac Sky ruler of the nearby city of Quiriguá
The Duke of Brabant (Dutch: hertog van Brabant, French: duc de Brabant) was the ruler of the Duchy of Brabant since 1183 1086) title of landgrave of Brabant.
Count Hartmann II becomes the ruler of Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Battle of Beverhoutsveld near Bruges in modern-day Belgium - the army of Ghent beats a drunken Bruges militia
Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptized by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I
Strategic city of Santa Cruz de Mompox founded on the Magdalena River (modern Colombia) by Spanish conquistadors
Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564.
The Treaty of Loudun was signed on 3 May 1616 in Loudun, France, and ended the war that originally began as a power struggle between Queen Mother Marie de Medici's favorite Concino Concini (recently...
Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
French huguenot leader Duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
Bridge at Rowley, Massachusetts begins charging tolls for animals
Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg, and Austria sign the Treaty of Oliva, one of the peace treaties ending the Second Northern War
Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
The Charter Oak was an exceptionally large white oak tree growing on Wyllys Hill in Hartford, Connecticut, from around the 12th or 13th century until it fell during a storm in 1856.
French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die
Pierre de Marivaux's play "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris
William IV (Willem Karel Hendrik Friso; 1 September 1711 – 22 October 1751) was Prince of Orange from birth and the first hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from...
Philadelphia ( FIL-ə-DEL-fee-ə), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Society for the Propagation of the Faith (Latin: Propagandum Fidei) is an international association coordinating assistance for Catholic missionary priests, brothers, and nuns in mission areas.
First regular steam train passenger service in the US starts in South Carolina, with U.S.-built locomotive “The Best Friend of Charleston”
The University of Athens is founded by King Otto of Greece - first modern university in the Eastern Mediterranean
The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia.
1st African American lawyer, Macon B. Allen, admitted to the bar in Massachusetts
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, (April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848) was an invasion of Mexico...
The German revolutions of 1848–1849 (German: Deutsche Revolution 1848/1849), the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution (German: Märzrevolution), were initially part of the...
Sixth major fire in San Francisco destroys 1500-2000 buildings
Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
Charles XV and IV (Carl Ludvig Eugen; Swedish and Norwegian officially: Karl; 3 May 1826 – 18 September 1872) was King of Sweden and King of Norway, there often referred to as Charles IV, from 8 July...
General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan for the North against the South in American Civil War
The Battle of Salem Church, and the Battle of Banks' Ford took place on May 3 and 4 respectively, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, as part of the Chancellorsville Campaign of the American...
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War.
Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Malcolm Alexander MacLean (August 14, 1844 – April 4, 1895) was the first mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1886 to 1887.
The Nanaimo mine explosion occurred on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, killing 150 miners. Only seven miners survived and the mine burned for one full day.
Camp Merriman forms at Presidio San Francisco (see 0517)
Fire destroys 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and 1 in Canada.
Irish Nationalists Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas Clarke are executed by firing squad following their involvement in the Easter Rising
Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
Northern Ireland is created under the UK Government of Ireland Act partitioning off six north eastern counties with a Protestant majority
Mayor Hylan closes 2 streets for building of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NYC
A transcontinental flight is a non-stop passenger flight from one side of a continent to the other. The term usually refers to flights across the United States, between the East and West Coasts.
The Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA or אצא) is an international youth-led fraternal organization for Jewish teenagers.
The Republic of China (ROC) established its rule over mainland China on 1 January 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and ended China's imperial history.
Prussia bans anti-fascists
24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday from London, England to Basel, Switzerland
The director of the United States Mint is the chief officer of the United States Mint. It is a presidential appointment that requires a Senate confirmation.
The French Section of the Workers' International (French: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a major social democratic political party in France which was founded in 1905 and...
Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.
The All India Forward Bloc (abbr. AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India.
German air raid on Liverpool, England
German Luftwaffe again bombs Exeter, destroying its town centre
1st Polish Armoured Division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West occupies Wilhelmshafen in Germany
International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1st broadcast of "CBS Evening News" - longest running network news show in the US
1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
First airplane lands at the geographic North Pole
Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read"
KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, Oklahoma(ABC) begins broadcasting
A new range of mountains is discovered in Antarctica, with two peaks over 13,000 feet
WINS suspends disc jockey Alan Freed for being charged with inciting a riot at a Boston concert, he quits, charges are dropped
Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
Express train crashes into the wreckage of a commuter train and a freight train, killing 163 and injuring 400 in Tokyo, Japan
Birmingham officials turn high pressure hoses and dogs on children's crusade protest against segregation prompting widespread condemnation
Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
African American students seize finance building at Northwestern University
Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
Trans-Arabian Pipeline delivery from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean interrupted in Syria, driving oil tanker rates to all time highs
New York City is the most populous city in the United States, with a metropolitan area population of over 19 million as of 2025.
Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida.
"Sun Day" - solar energy events held in the US
Thomas Michael Cousineau is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons during the...
"Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
A View to a Kill is a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
Bomb explodes aboard Air Lanka Flight 512 on the ground at Colombo airport, killing 21
Miami Herald reports a woman (Donna Rice) spent Friday and Saturday with presidential candidate Gary Hart creating a media frenzy that forces him to withdraw from the race
4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
Baltimore Orioles Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and...
Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 for the 1st wicket, Yorkshire v Glamorgan
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.
Sport of geocaching begins with the first cache placed and the GPS coordinates posted on Usenet
The United States loses its seat on the UN Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947
The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared...
Al-Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison for his part in the 9/11 attacks, in Alexandria, Virginia
Madeleine Beth McCann is a British missing person, who at the age of 3 disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007.
Aorun () (敖闰 pinyin Áo rùn) is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur first discovered in 2006, with its scientific description published in 2013.
The 2014–15 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 23rd season of the Premier League, the top English professional league for association football...
Cyclone Fani strikes Odisha State, India and Bangladesh, killing 33 people after one of the biggest human evacuations ever - 1.2 million in India in 24 hours
This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in April 2020, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by four of the six known ebolaviruses.
Heatwave continues across North and Central India disproportionally affecting the poor, with March and April temperatures the hottest ever recorded in 122 years [1]
13-year-old Serbian student shoots and kills nine people at his Belgrade school, eight students and a security guard, before handing himself in [1]
MLB LA Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani joins NY Yankee legend Babe Ruth as only pitcher to strike out 500 batters and hit over 100 career home runs in 6-4 over the Cardinals in St. Louis
Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist, known for florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist, was born on 1469-05-03.
Bernhard von Bülow is born
Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright, known for english novelist and playwright, was born on 1896-05-03.
Golda Meir is born
David Koch, American businessman and philanthropist, known for american businessman and philanthropist, was born on 1940-05-03.
Akio Toyoda, Japanese business executive, known for japanese business executive, was born on 1957-05-03.
Bing Crosby singer and actor, known for american singer and actor, was born on 1903-05-03. Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor.
Mary Astor, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1906-05-03. Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress.
Bobby Cannavale, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1971-05-03. Bobby Cannavale is an American actor.
Betty Comden, American musician, known for american dramatist and lyricist, was born on 1917-05-03.
Pete Seeger, American musician, known for american musician and social activist, was born on 1919-05-03.
James Brown, American musician, known for american musician, was born on 1933-05-03.
Red Ruffing, American athlete, known for american baseball player and coach, was born on 1904-05-03.
Ron Hextall, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1965-05-03. Ronald Jeffrey Hextall is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and executive.
Brooks Koepka, American athlete, known for american professional golfer, was born on 1991-05-03.
Maya ruler 18 Rabbit of Copán is captured and beheaded by his former vassal Cauac Sky ruler of the nearby city of Quiriguá
The Duke of Brabant (Dutch: hertog van Brabant, French: duc de Brabant) was the ruler of the Duchy of Brabant since 1183 1086) title of landgrave of Brabant.
Count Hartmann II becomes the ruler of Vaduz, Liechtenstein
BC Solar eclipse (2m 07s) seen at Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers "On the day of the new moon, in the month of Hiyar, the Sun was put to shame, and went down in the daytime, with Mars in attendance."
Battle of Beverhoutsveld near Bruges in modern-day Belgium - the army of Ghent beats a drunken Bruges militia
Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist, known for florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist, was born on 1469-05-03.
Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptized by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I
Strategic city of Santa Cruz de Mompox founded on the Magdalena River (modern Colombia) by Spanish conquistadors
Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564.
The Treaty of Loudun was signed on 3 May 1616 in Loudun, France, and ended the war that originally began as a power struggle between Queen Mother Marie de Medici's favorite Concino Concini (recently...
Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
French huguenot leader Duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
Bridge at Rowley, Massachusetts begins charging tolls for animals
Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg, and Austria sign the Treaty of Oliva, one of the peace treaties ending the Second Northern War
Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
The Charter Oak was an exceptionally large white oak tree growing on Wyllys Hill in Hartford, Connecticut, from around the 12th or 13th century until it fell during a storm in 1856.
French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die
Pierre de Marivaux's play "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris
William IV (Willem Karel Hendrik Friso; 1 September 1711 – 22 October 1751) was Prince of Orange from birth and the first hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from...
Philadelphia ( FIL-ə-DEL-fee-ə), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Constitution of May 3 is proclaimed by the Great Sejm (Parliament) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the first modern constitution in Europe
Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city
Day depicted by Spanish painter Francisco Goya in his "The Third of May," which he paints in 1814
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Society for the Propagation of the Faith (Latin: Propagandum Fidei) is an international association coordinating assistance for Catholic missionary priests, brothers, and nuns in mission areas.
First regular steam train passenger service in the US starts in South Carolina, with U.S.-built locomotive “The Best Friend of Charleston”
The University of Athens is founded by King Otto of Greece - first modern university in the Eastern Mediterranean
The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia.
1st African American lawyer, Macon B. Allen, admitted to the bar in Massachusetts
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, (April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848) was an invasion of Mexico...
The German revolutions of 1848–1849 (German: Deutsche Revolution 1848/1849), the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution (German: Märzrevolution), were initially part of the...
Bernhard von Bülow is born
Sixth major fire in San Francisco destroys 1500-2000 buildings
Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
Charles XV and IV (Carl Ludvig Eugen; Swedish and Norwegian officially: Karl; 3 May 1826 – 18 September 1872) was King of Sweden and King of Norway, there often referred to as Charles IV, from 8 July...
General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan for the North against the South in American Civil War
The Battle of Salem Church, and the Battle of Banks' Ford took place on May 3 and 4 respectively, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, as part of the Chancellorsville Campaign of the American...
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War.
Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
American mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (28) weds Louise M. Spooner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Malcolm Alexander MacLean (August 14, 1844 – April 4, 1895) was the first mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1886 to 1887.
The Nanaimo mine explosion occurred on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, killing 150 miners. Only seven miners survived and the mine burned for one full day.
Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright, known for english novelist and playwright, was born on 1896-05-03.
Camp Merriman forms at Presidio San Francisco (see 0517)
Golda Meir is born
Fire destroys 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
Bing Crosby singer and actor, known for american singer and actor, was born on 1903-05-03. Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor.
Red Ruffing, American athlete, known for american baseball player and coach, was born on 1904-05-03.
American-English businessman Waldorf Astor (26) weds fellow American-English socialite Nancy Langhorne Shaw (26) at All Souls Church in London, England, until his death in 1952
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula.
Mary Astor, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1906-05-03. Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and 1 in Canada.
Irish Nationalists Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas Clarke are executed by firing squad following their involvement in the Easter Rising
Betty Comden, American musician, known for american dramatist and lyricist, was born on 1917-05-03.
Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
Pete Seeger, American musician, known for american musician and social activist, was born on 1919-05-03.
Northern Ireland is created under the UK Government of Ireland Act partitioning off six north eastern counties with a Protestant majority
Mayor Hylan closes 2 streets for building of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NYC
A transcontinental flight is a non-stop passenger flight from one side of a continent to the other. The term usually refers to flights across the United States, between the East and West Coasts.
The Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA or אצא) is an international youth-led fraternal organization for Jewish teenagers.
Britain's Trade Union Congress calls for the country's first-ever general strike, begins at 1 minute to midnight in support of striking coal miners and lasts 9 days
The Republic of China (ROC) established its rule over mainland China on 1 January 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and ended China's imperial history.
Prussia bans anti-fascists
24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday from London, England to Basel, Switzerland
The director of the United States Mint is the chief officer of the United States Mint. It is a presidential appointment that requires a Senate confirmation.
James Brown, American musician, known for american musician, was born on 1933-05-03.
The French Section of the Workers' International (French: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a major social democratic political party in France which was founded in 1905 and...
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936.
Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.
The All India Forward Bloc (abbr. AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India.
David Koch, American businessman and philanthropist, known for american businessman and philanthropist, was born on 1940-05-03.
German air raid on Liverpool, England
German Luftwaffe again bombs Exeter, destroying its town centre
"Going My Way," directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby, premieres in New York (Academy Award for Best Picture, 1945)
German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona, laden with prisoners, is sunk by the Royal Air Force in the western Baltic Sea, killing 5,800 people in one of the largest maritime losses of life in World War II
1st Polish Armoured Division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West occupies Wilhelmshafen in Germany
International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
Japan's post-war constitution goes into effect, granting universal suffrage, stripping Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power and outlawing Japan's right to make war
1st broadcast of "CBS Evening News" - longest running network news show in the US
1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
First airplane lands at the geographic North Pole
Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read"
KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, Oklahoma(ABC) begins broadcasting
A new range of mountains is discovered in Antarctica, with two peaks over 13,000 feet
Akio Toyoda, Japanese business executive, known for japanese business executive, was born on 1957-05-03.
WINS suspends disc jockey Alan Freed for being charged with inciting a riot at a Boston concert, he quits, charges are dropped
Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
Musical "The Fantasticks" by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones opens in Greenwich Village, NYC, becomes “the longest-running musical in the universe”
Express train crashes into the wreckage of a commuter train and a freight train, killing 163 and injuring 400 in Tokyo, Japan
Birmingham officials turn high pressure hoses and dogs on children's crusade protest against segregation prompting widespread condemnation
Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
Ron Hextall, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1965-05-03. Ronald Jeffrey Hextall is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and executive.
WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
African American students seize finance building at Northwestern University
Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
Trans-Arabian Pipeline delivery from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean interrupted in Syria, driving oil tanker rates to all time highs
Bobby Cannavale, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1971-05-03. Bobby Cannavale is an American actor.
New York City is the most populous city in the United States, with a metropolitan area population of over 19 million as of 2025.
Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida.
"Sun Day" - solar energy events held in the US
Thomas Michael Cousineau is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons during the...
"Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
A View to a Kill is a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
American Mousketeer-actress-singer Annette Funicello (43) weds American harness racing horse breeder and trainer Glen Holt (55), until her death in 2013
Bomb explodes aboard Air Lanka Flight 512 on the ground at Colombo airport, killing 21
Miami Herald reports a woman (Donna Rice) spent Friday and Saturday with presidential candidate Gary Hart creating a media frenzy that forces him to withdraw from the race
4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
Brooks Koepka, American athlete, known for american professional golfer, was born on 1991-05-03.
Baltimore Orioles Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
George Murphy, American actor and politician, known for american actor and politician, died on 1992-05-03. George Lloyd Murphy (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992) was an American actor and politician.
D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and...
Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 for the 1st wicket, Yorkshire v Glamorgan
World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Stephen Hendry of Scotland defeats Welshman Mark Williams 18-11 for a record seventh world crown
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.
Sport of geocaching begins with the first cache placed and the GPS coordinates posted on Usenet
The United States loses its seat on the UN Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947
The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared...
Al-Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison for his part in the 9/11 attacks, in Alexandria, Virginia
Madeleine Beth McCann is a British missing person, who at the age of 3 disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007.
Aorun () (敖闰 pinyin Áo rùn) is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur first discovered in 2006, with its scientific description published in 2013.
The 2014–15 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 23rd season of the Premier League, the top English professional league for association football...
Cyclone Fani strikes Odisha State, India and Bangladesh, killing 33 people after one of the biggest human evacuations ever - 1.2 million in India in 24 hours
This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in April 2020, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his...
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by four of the six known ebolaviruses.
Heatwave continues across North and Central India disproportionally affecting the poor, with March and April temperatures the hottest ever recorded in 122 years [1]
13-year-old Serbian student shoots and kills nine people at his Belgrade school, eight students and a security guard, before handing himself in [1]
MLB LA Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani joins NY Yankee legend Babe Ruth as only pitcher to strike out 500 batters and hit over 100 career home runs in 6-4 over the Cardinals in St. Louis
Lady Gaga's free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, draws crowd estimated at 2.5 million attendees, the largest concert in history for a female artist; police later reveal they thwarted a bombing attempt