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May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). There are 242 days remaining.

Events

1400-1899

1494 - Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica.

1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet.

1747 - The French Navy is defeated by The British Fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre.

1808

Finnish War: The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia.

Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who uprose on May 2 are fired near Príncipe Pío hill.

1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont.

1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.

1900-1999

1912 - The first victims of the RMS Titanic are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first women to head the United States Mint.

1937 - Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize.

1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.

1946 - The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.

1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.

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 S. Truman.

1952 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and 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.

1960 - The off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village (it is the longest-running musical of all time).

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.

1982- Falklands War: The Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile.

1986 - In Bergen, Norway, Sandra Kim wins the thirty-first Eurovision Song Contest for Belgium singing "J'aime la vie" (I love life).

1987 - Davey Allison wins his first NASCAR Winston Cup race at the Winston 500 in Talladega, Alabama.

1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.

1991 - The last episode of the soap opera Dallas aired.

1997 - In Dublin, Ireland, Katrina & the Waves win the forty-second Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Love Shine a Light".

1999 - Oklahoma City got slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produced 66 tornadoes. This tornado killed 38 people and injured 665 and caused $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)

1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70. A little under a year later on January 14, 2000 it closed at its highest level to date at 11,722.98.

2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2003 - New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain mysteriously falls from its perch after 10,000 years

2003 - Funny Cide becomes the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.