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| May 3rd, 2008 (May 03 2008) | Death | Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Primer Minister (born in 1926) | |
| May 3rd, 2007 (May 03 2007) | Event | British girl Madeleine McCann disappears from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal. | |
| May 3rd, 2007 (May 03 2007) | Death | Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (born in 1913) | |
| May 3rd, 2007 (May 03 2007) | Death | Wally Schirra, American astronaut (born in 1923) | |
| May 3rd, 2007 (May 03 2007) | Death | Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (born in 1932) | |
| May 3rd, 2006 (May 03 2006) | Event | Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors. | |
| May 3rd, 2006 (May 03 2006) | Event | Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia. | |
| May 3rd, 2006 (May 03 2006) | Death | Karel Appel, Dutch painter (born in 1921) | |
| May 3rd, 2006 (May 03 2006) | Death | Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (born in 1949) | |
| May 3rd, 2006 (May 03 2006) | Death | Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (born in 1932) | |
| May 3rd, 2004 (May 03 2004) | Death | Anthony Ainley, British actor (born in 1932) | |
| May 3rd, 2004 (May 03 2004) | Death | Ken Downing, British racing driver (born in 1917) | |
| May 3rd, 2004 (May 03 2004) | Death | Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (born in 1928) | |
| May 3rd, 2003 (May 03 2003) | Event | New Hampshire s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses. | |
| May 3rd, 2003 (May 03 2003) | Death | Suzy Parker, American actress (born in 1932) | |
| May 3rd, 2002 (May 03 2002) | Event | A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight. | |
| May 3rd, 2002 (May 03 2002) | Death | Barbara Castle, British politician (born in 1910) | |
| May 3rd, 2002 (May 03 2002) | Death | Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (born in 1928) | |
| May 3rd, 2001 (May 03 2001) | Event | The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. | |
| May 3rd, 2001 (May 03 2001) | Death | Billy Higgins, American drummer (born in 1936) | |
| May 3rd, 2000 (May 03 2000) | Event | The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. | |
| May 3rd, 2000 (May 03 2000) | Death | John Joseph Cardinal O Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (born in 1920) | |
| May 3rd, 1999 (May 03 1999) | Event | 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. | |
| May 3rd, 1999 (May 03 1999) | Event | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70. | |
| May 3rd, 1999 (May 03 1999) | Event | Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time. | |
| May 3rd, 1999 (May 03 1999) | Death | Joe Adcock, American baseball player (born in 1927) | |
| May 3rd, 1999 (May 03 1999) | Death | Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1967) | |
| May 3rd, 1997 (May 03 1997) | Death | Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (born in 1927) | |
| May 3rd, 1996 (May 03 1996) | Death | Alex Kellner, American baseball player (born in 1924) | |
| May 3rd, 1996 (May 03 1996) | Death | Jack Weston, American actor (born in 1924) | |
| May 3rd, 1994 (May 03 1994) | Death | Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born in 1899) | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1992 (May 03 1992) | Death | George Murphy, American dancer, actor and politician (born in 1902) | |
| May 3rd, 1991 (May 03 1991) | Event | The Declaration of Windhoek is signed. | |
| May 3rd, 1991 (May 03 1991) | Death | Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born writer (born in 1933) | |
| May 3rd, 1991 (May 03 1991) | Death | Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (born in 1907) | |
| May 3rd, 1989 (May 03 1989) | Death | Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual (born in 1926) | |
| May 3rd, 1989 (May 03 1989) | Death | Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (born in 1906) | |
| May 3rd, 1988 (May 03 1988) | Death | Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (born in 1908) | |
| May 3rd, 1987 (May 03 1987) | Event | A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. | |
| May 3rd, 1987 (May 03 1987) | Death | Dalida, French singer (born in 1933) | |
| May 3rd, 1986 (May 03 1986) | Event | Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. | |
| May 3rd, 1985 (May 03 1985) | Birth | Greg Raposo, American pop/rock singer | |
| May 3rd, 1984 (May 03 1984) | Birth | Nam Sang-mi, South Korean actress and model | |
| May 3rd, 1984 (May 03 1984) | Birth | Cheryl Burke, American professional dancer | |
| May 3rd, 1983 (May 03 1983) | Birth | Joseph Addai, American football player | |
| May 3rd, 1983 (May 03 1983) | Birth | Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer | |
| May 3rd, 1983 (May 03 1983) | Birth | Marton Fulop, Hungarian footballer | |
| May 3rd, 1983 (May 03 1983) | Birth | Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer | |
| May 3rd, 1982 (May 03 1982) | Birth | Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-born American football player | |
| May 3rd, 1981 (May 03 1981) | Birth | Farrah Franklin, American singer (former member of Destiny s Child) | |
| May 3rd, 1980 (May 03 1980) | Birth | Zuzana Ondraskova, Czech tennis player | |
| May 3rd, 1980 (May 03 1980) | Birth | Marcel Vigneron, American chef (Top Chef) | |
| May 3rd, 1979 (May 03 1979) | Event | Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher becomes the United Kingdom s first female prime minister as the Labour government is ousted in parliamentary elections. | Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1979 (May 03 1979) | Birth | Steve Mack, American professional wrestler | |
| May 3rd, 1978 (May 03 1978) | Event | 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. | |
| May 3rd, 1978 (May 03 1978) | Birth | Paul Banks, American vocalist (Interpol) | |
| May 3rd, 1978 (May 03 1978) | Birth | Christina Hendricks, American actress | |
| May 3rd, 1978 (May 03 1978) | Birth | Lawrence Tynes, American football player | |
| May 3rd, 1977 (May 03 1977) | Birth | Mashima Hiro, Japanese Mangaka of Rave Master and Fairy Tail | |
| May 3rd, 1977 (May 03 1977) | Birth | Ryan Dempster, American baseball player | |
| May 3rd, 1976 (May 03 1976) | Birth | Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player | |
| May 3rd, 1975 (May 03 1975) | Birth | Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist | |
| May 3rd, 1975 (May 03 1975) | Birth | Eva Santolaria, Spanish actress | |
| May 3rd, 1975 (May 03 1975) | Birth | Dule Hill, American actor | |
| May 3rd, 1974 (May 03 1974) | Birth | Princess Haya bint Hussein of Jordan | Hussein of Jordan Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1973 (May 03 1973) | Event | The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world s tallest building. | |
| May 3rd, 1972 (May 03 1972) | Birth | Shonie Carter, American MMA fighter | |
| May 3rd, 1972 (May 03 1972) | Birth | Suzi Suzuki, former Japanese adult actress | |
| May 3rd, 1972 (May 03 1972) | Death | Bruce Cabot, American film actor (born in 1904) | |
| May 3rd, 1971 (May 03 1971) | Birth | Damon Dash, American label executive | |
| May 3rd, 1971 (May 03 1971) | Birth | Josey Scott, American singer (Saliva) | |
| May 3rd, 1970 (May 03 1970) | Birth | Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer | |
| May 3rd, 1969 (May 03 1969) | Birth | Daryl F. Mallett, American writer/editor | |
| May 3rd, 1969 (May 03 1969) | Death | Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (born in 1897) | |
| May 3rd, 1968 (May 03 1968) | Birth | Shane Minor, American singer | |
| May 3rd, 1966 (May 03 1966) | Birth | Peter Abbay, American actor | |
| May 3rd, 1966 (May 03 1966) | Birth | Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor | |
| May 3rd, 1966 (May 03 1966) | Birth | Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player | |
| May 3rd, 1965 (May 03 1965) | Birth | Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian | |
| May 3rd, 1965 (May 03 1965) | Birth | John Jensen, Danish footballer | |
| May 3rd, 1964 (May 03 1964) | Birth | Ron Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| May 3rd, 1963 (May 03 1963) | Event | 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. | |
| May 3rd, 1963 (May 03 1963) | Birth | Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player | |
| May 3rd, 1963 (May 03 1963) | Birth | Jamie Reeves, British strongman | |
| May 3rd, 1963 (May 03 1963) | Birth | Sally Whittaker, English actress | |
| May 3rd, 1962 (May 03 1962) | Birth | Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder | |
| May 3rd, 1961 (May 03 1961) | Birth | Steve McClaren, English football manager | |
| May 3rd, 1961 (May 03 1961) | Birth | Joe Murray, American cartoonist | |
| May 3rd, 1961 (May 03 1961) | Birth | David Vitter American politician | |
| May 3rd, 1960 (May 03 1960) | Event | The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City s Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time. | |
| May 3rd, 1960 (May 03 1960) | Event | The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. | Anne Frank Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1960 (May 03 1960) | Birth | Amy Steel, American actress | |
| May 3rd, 1959 (May 03 1959) | Birth | David Ball, English musician (Soft Cell) | |
| May 3rd, 1959 (May 03 1959) | Birth | Uma Bharati, Indian politician | |
| May 3rd, 1959 (May 03 1959) | Birth | Ben Elton, British comedian and author | Ben Elton Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1958 (May 03 1958) | Birth | Kevin Kilner, American actor | |
| May 3rd, 1958 (May 03 1958) | Birth | Sandi Toksvig, Danish comedian and radio presenter | |
| May 3rd, 1958 (May 03 1958) | Death | Frank Foster, English cricketer (born in 1889) | |
| May 3rd, 1957 (May 03 1957) | Event | Walter O Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California. | |
| May 3rd, 1957 (May 03 1957) | Birth | Rod Langway, American ice hockey player | |
| May 3rd, 1956 (May 03 1956) | Birth | Marc Bellemare, French Canadian lawyer and politician | |
| May 3rd, 1955 (May 03 1955) | Birth | David Hookes, Australian cricketer (died in 2004) | |
| May 3rd, 1954 (May 03 1954) | Birth | Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement) | |
| May 3rd, 1952 (May 03 1952) | Event | Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole. | |
| May 3rd, 1952 (May 03 1952) | Birth | Allan Wells, British athlete | |
| May 3rd, 1952 (May 03 1952) | Birth | Caitlin Clarke. American actress (died in 2004) | |
| May 3rd, 1951 (May 03 1951) | Event | London s Royal Festival Hall opens. | |
| May 3rd, 1951 (May 03 1951) | Event | The Festival of Britain opens. | |
| May 3rd, 1951 (May 03 1951) | Event | 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. | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1951 (May 03 1951) | Event | The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time. | |
| May 3rd, 1951 (May 03 1951) | Birth | Christopher Cross, American musician | |
| May 3rd, 1951 (May 03 1951) | Birth | Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer | |
| May 3rd, 1949 (May 03 1949) | Birth | Ron Wyden, American politician | Ron Wyden Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1948 (May 03 1948) | Event | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. | |
| May 3rd, 1948 (May 03 1948) | Birth | Chris Mulkey, American actor | |
| May 3rd, 1947 (May 03 1947) | Event | New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. | |
| May 3rd, 1947 (May 03 1947) | Birth | Doug Henning, Canadian magician (died in 2000) | |
| May 3rd, 1946 (May 03 1946) | Event | The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. | |
| May 3rd, 1946 (May 03 1946) | Birth | Norm Chow, American football coach | |
| May 3rd, 1946 (May 03 1946) | Birth | Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player | |
| May 3rd, 1945 (May 03 1945) | Event | World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lubeck Bay. | |
| May 3rd, 1945 (May 03 1945) | Birth | Davey Lopes, American baseball player and coach | |
| May 3rd, 1942 (May 03 1942) | Event | 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. | Solomon Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1942 (May 03 1942) | Birth | Vera Caslavska, Czech gymnast | |
| May 3rd, 1942 (May 03 1942) | Birth | Dave Marash, American journalist | |
| May 3rd, 1942 (May 03 1942) | Birth | C.L. Otter, American politician, governor of Idaho | |
| May 3rd, 1942 (May 03 1942) | Death | Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (born in 1873) | |
| May 3rd, 1941 (May 03 1941) | Birth | Edward "Monk" Malloy, American university president | |
| May 3rd, 1940 (May 03 1940) | Birth | Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician | |
| May 3rd, 1940 (May 03 1940) | Birth | Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football manager | |
| May 3rd, 1939 (May 03 1939) | Event | The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. | Subhash Chandra Bose Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1938 (May 03 1938) | Birth | Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player | |
| May 3rd, 1937 (May 03 1937) | Event | Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. | |
| May 3rd, 1937 (May 03 1937) | Birth | Nelida Pinon, Brazilian writer | |
| May 3rd, 1935 (May 03 1935) | Birth | Ron Popeil, American inventor | |
| May 3rd, 1934 (May 03 1934) | Birth | Henry Cooper, English boxer | |
| May 3rd, 1934 (May 03 1934) | Birth | Georges Moustaki, Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter | |
| May 3rd, 1934 (May 03 1934) | Birth | Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons) | |
| May 3rd, 1933 (May 03 1933) | Event | Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint. | |
| May 3rd, 1933 (May 03 1933) | Birth | James Brown, American singer and dancer (died in 2006) | James Brown Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1933 (May 03 1933) | Birth | Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| May 3rd, 1933 (May 03 1933) | Birth | Alex Cord, American actor | |
| May 3rd, 1932 (May 03 1932) | Birth | Robert Osborne, American film historian | |
| May 3rd, 1928 (May 03 1928) | Event | Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China. | |
| May 3rd, 1928 (May 03 1928) | Birth | Dave Dudley, American singer (died in 2003) | |
| May 3rd, 1924 (May 03 1924) | Event | Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber. | |
| May 3rd, 1924 (May 03 1924) | Birth | Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (died in 2000) | |
| May 3rd, 1924 (May 03 1924) | Birth | Ken Tyrrell, English founder of eponymous F1 racing team (died in 2001) | |
| May 3rd, 1923 (May 03 1923) | Birth | Ralph Hall, American politician | |
| May 3rd, 1923 (May 03 1923) | Birth | George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist and conductor | |
| May 3rd, 1922 (May 03 1922) | Birth | Len Shackleton, English former footballer (died in 2000) | |
| May 3rd, 1921 (May 03 1921) | Event | West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax. | |
| May 3rd, 1921 (May 03 1921) | Birth | Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (died in 1989) | |
| May 3rd, 1921 (May 03 1921) | Birth | Joe Ames, American singer (died in 2007) | |
| May 3rd, 1921 (May 03 1921) | Death | Theodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (born in 1883) | |
| May 3rd, 1920 (May 03 1920) | Birth | John Lewis, American jazz pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (died in 2001) | |
| May 3rd, 1919 (May 03 1919) | Birth | John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (died in 2004) | |
| May 3rd, 1919 (May 03 1919) | Birth | Pete Seeger, American singer | |
| May 3rd, 1918 (May 03 1918) | Birth | Ted Bates, English former footballer (died in 2003) | |
| May 3rd, 1918 (May 03 1918) | Death | Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary | |
| May 3rd, 1917 (May 03 1917) | Birth | Betty Comden, American lyricist (died in 2006) | |
| May 3rd, 1916 (May 03 1916) | Event | The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin. | |
| May 3rd, 1916 (May 03 1916) | Birth | Leopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (died in 2006) | |
| May 3rd, 1915 (May 03 1915) | Birth | Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (died in 2003) | |
| May 3rd, 1913 (May 03 1913) | Birth | William Inge, American playwright (died in 1973) | |
| May 3rd, 1912 (May 03 1912) | Birth | Virgil Fox, American organist (died in 1980) | Virgil Fox Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1910 (May 03 1910) | Birth | Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer | |
| May 3rd, 1906 (May 03 1906) | Birth | Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (died in 1975) | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1906 (May 03 1906) | Birth | Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress (died in 1987) | |
| May 3rd, 1905 (May 03 1905) | Birth | Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (died in 1988) | |
| May 3rd, 1905 (May 03 1905) | Birth | Sebastian Shaw, English actor (died in 1994) | |
| May 3rd, 1903 (May 03 1903) | Birth | Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (died in 1977) | |
| May 3rd, 1902 (May 03 1902) | Birth | Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1984) | Alfred Nobel Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1901 (May 03 1901) | Event | The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida. | |
| May 3rd, 1901 (May 03 1901) | Birth | Gino Cervi, Italian actor (died in 1974) | |
| May 3rd, 1898 (May 03 1898) | Birth | Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (died in 1978) | Golda Meir Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1896 (May 03 1896) | Birth | Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (died in 1990) | |
| May 3rd, 1896 (May 03 1896) | Birth | Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (died in 1917) | |
| May 3rd, 1895 (May 03 1895) | Birth | Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (died in 1987) | Philo Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1893 (May 03 1893) | Birth | Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (died in 1975) | |
| May 3rd, 1892 (May 03 1892) | Birth | George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1975) | |
| May 3rd, 1891 (May 03 1891) | Birth | Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (died in 1969) | |
| May 3rd, 1888 (May 03 1888) | Birth | Beulah Bondi, American actress (died in 1981) | |
| May 3rd, 1886 (May 03 1886) | Birth | Marcel Dupre, French organist and composer (died in 1971) | |
| May 3rd, 1879 (May 03 1879) | Birth | Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (died in 1950) | |
| May 3rd, 1877 (May 03 1877) | Birth | Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (died in 1925) | Abraham Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1874 (May 03 1874) | Birth | Francois Coty, French perfume manufacturer (died in 1934) | |
| May 3rd, 1874 (May 03 1874) | Birth | V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (died in 1954) | |
| May 3rd, 1873 (May 03 1873) | Birth | Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (died in 1945) | |
| May 3rd, 1870 (May 03 1870) | Birth | Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (died in 1948) | |
| May 3rd, 1867 (May 03 1867) | Event | The Hudson s Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island. | |
| May 3rd, 1867 (May 03 1867) | Birth | J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (died in 1944) | |
| May 3rd, 1861 (May 03 1861) | Birth | Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (died in 1937) | |
| May 3rd, 1860 (May 03 1860) | Event | Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden. | |
| May 3rd, 1860 (May 03 1860) | Birth | John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (died in 1936) | John Scott Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1860 (May 03 1860) | Birth | Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (died in 1940) | |
| May 3rd, 1859 (May 03 1859) | Birth | Andy Adams, American author (died in 1935) | |
| May 3rd, 1857 (May 03 1857) | Birth | George Gore, American baseball player (died in 1933) | |
| May 3rd, 1856 (May 03 1856) | Death | Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (born in 1803) | |
| May 3rd, 1849 (May 03 1849) | Event | The May Uprising in Dresden beginsthe last of the German revolutions of 1848. | |
| May 3rd, 1849 (May 03 1849) | Birth | Bernhard von Bulow, Chancellor of Germany (died in 1929) | |
| May 3rd, 1844 (May 03 1844) | Birth | Richard D Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario (died in 1901) | |
| May 3rd, 1839 (May 03 1839) | Death | Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (born in 1771) | |
| May 3rd, 1837 (May 03 1837) | Event | The University of Athens is founded. | |
| May 3rd, 1835 (May 03 1835) | Birth | Alfred Austin, English poet (died in 1913) | Alfred Austin Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1830 (May 03 1830) | Event | The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is openedied in It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel. | |
| May 3rd, 1826 (May 03 1826) | Birth | Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (died in 1872) | |
| May 3rd, 1815 (May 03 1815) | Event | Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war. | |
| May 3rd, 1808 (May 03 1808) | Event | Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. | |
| May 3rd, 1808 (May 03 1808) | Event | Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Principe Pio hill. | |
| May 3rd, 1802 (May 03 1802) | Event | Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city. | |
| May 3rd, 1793 (May 03 1793) | Death | Martin Gerbert, German theologian and historian (born in 1720) | |
| May 3rd, 1791 (May 03 1791) | Event | The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. | |
| May 3rd, 1779 (May 03 1779) | Death | John Winthrop, American astronomer (born in 1714) | |
| May 3rd, 1768 (May 03 1768) | Birth | Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (died in 1838) | |
| May 3rd, 1764 (May 03 1764) | Birth | Elisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI, guillotined 1794 | |
| May 3rd, 1764 (May 03 1764) | Death | Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (born in 1712) | Philo Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1763 (May 03 1763) | Death | George Psalmanazar, British impostor (born in 1679) | |
| May 3rd, 1761 (May 03 1761) | Birth | August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (died in 1819) | August von Kotzebue Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1758 (May 03 1758) | Death | Pope Benedict XIV (born in 1675) | |
| May 3rd, 1752 (May 03 1752) | Death | Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (born in c. 1692) | |
| May 3rd, 1750 (May 03 1750) | Death | John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (born in 1680) | John Scott Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1724 (May 03 1724) | Death | John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (born in 1662) | |
| May 3rd, 1715 (May 03 1715) | Event | "Edmund Halley s" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, United Kingdom for almost 900 years). | |
| May 3rd, 1713 (May 03 1713) | Birth | Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (died in 1765) | |
| May 3rd, 1704 (May 03 1704) | Death | Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (born in 1644) | |
| May 3rd, 1695 (May 03 1695) | Birth | Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (died in 1771) | |
| May 3rd, 1693 (May 03 1693) | Death | Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (born in 1607) | |
| May 3rd, 1679 (May 03 1679) | Death | James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (born in 1613) | |
| May 3rd, 1662 (May 03 1662) | Birth | Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann, German architect (died in 1736) | |
| May 3rd, 1622 (May 03 1622) | Death | Pedro Paez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born in 1564) | |
| May 3rd, 1606 (May 03 1606) | Death | Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (born in 1555) | |
| May 3rd, 1598 (May 03 1598) | Death | Anna Guarini, Italian singer (born in 1563) | |
| May 3rd, 1494 (May 03 1494) | Event | Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1491 (May 03 1491) | Event | Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of Joao I. | |
| May 3rd, 1481 (May 03 1481) | Death | Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1432) | |
| May 3rd, 1469 (May 03 1469) | Birth | Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (died in 1527) | Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1446 (May 03 1446) | Birth | Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (died in 1503) | |
| May 3rd, 1428 (May 03 1428) | Birth | Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (died in 1495) | |
| May 3rd, 1415 (May 03 1415) | Birth | Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (died in 1495) | Richard III of England Quotes |
| May 3rd, 1294 (May 03 1294) | Death | John I, Duke of Brabant (born in 1252/1253) | |
| May 3rd, 1270 (May 03 1270) | Death | King Bela IV of Hungary (born in 1206) | |
| May 3rd, 1160 (May 03 1160) | Death | Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (born in c.1100) | |
| May 3rd, 1152 (May 03 1152) | Death | Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (born in 1105) | |
| May 3rd, 0612 (May 03 0612) | Birth | Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (died in 641) | |
