What Historical Events Happened On My Birthday? Today Celebrity Birthdays See what makes May 3 special at Famous Daily. History, birthdays, holiday, and a quote! What happened on May 3 May 3, 1010 "Death - Ansfried 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69" May 3, 1294 "Death - Jan I duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies" May 3, 1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge May 3, 1410 "Death - Alexander V [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies" May 3, 1442 "Death - Engelbert I Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies" May 3, 1446 Birthday - Margaretha English princess/duchess of Bourgondie May 3, 1455 "Birthday - Joo II the perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews" May 3, 1455 Jews flee Spain May 3, 1469 "Birthday - Niccol Machiavelli Italy, politician/writer (The Prince)" May 3, 1481 "Death - Mohammed II [Ftih], sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies" May 3, 1491 "Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of Joo I." May 3, 1494 Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica. May 3, 1494 "Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it ""St Iago""" May 3, 1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen (18th ecumenical council) in Rome May 3, 1514 "Birthday - Bartholomaeus a Martyribus [Fernandez], primate of Portugal" May 3, 1515 Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz May 3, 1535 "Birthday - Alessandro ""Agnolo"" Allori Italian painter/carpet designer" May 3, 1567 "Death - Leonhard Paminger composer, dies at 72" May 3, 1614 "Death - Sasbout Vosmeer Roman Catholic theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66" May 3, 1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war May 3, 1621 Francis Bacon accused of bribery May 3, 1624 Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama May 3, 1629 French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain May 3, 1640 English Upper house accept Act of Attainder May 3, 1647 "Birthday - John A ""Joannes"" Antonides van der Goes poet (Bellone aen bant)" May 3, 1649 Birthday - Johann Valentin Meder composer May 3, 1654 Bridge at Rowley MA begins charging tolls for animals May 3, 1654 "Death - Franois van Kinschot treasurer-general/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77" May 3, 1660 "Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva" May 3, 1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen May 3, 1678 "French conquering fleet at Cura�ao, 1200 die" May 3, 1691 Birthday - Carolus van der Abeele Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction l'amour) May 3, 1692 Birthday - Jan J Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51) May 3, 1703 "Death - Eglon van de Down still-life painter, dies" May 3, 1704 "Death - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59" May 3, 1707 "Death - Michiel de Swaen South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53" May 3, 1708 Birthday - Johann Adolph Scheibe German music theroist/composer May 3, 1715 """Edmund Halley's"" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, UK for almost 900 years)." May 3, 1715 "Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon ""Baily's Beads""" May 3, 1722 "Pierre de Marivaux' ""La Double Inconstance"" premieres in Paris France" May 3, 1729 Birthday - Florian Leopold Gassmann composer May 3, 1737 Birthday - Friedrich Schwindl composer May 3, 1737 "Death - Abraham Patras Governor-General of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65" May 3, 1742 Birthday - Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz composer May 3, 1744 Birthday - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis composer May 3, 1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht May 3, 1752 Birthday - Braz Francisco de Lima composer May 3, 1758 "Death - Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini] Pope (1740-58), dies at 83" May 3, 1764 Birthday - Elisabeth PMH princess of France/son of king Louis XVI May 3, 1764 "Death - Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53" May 3, 1765 Thr first US medical college opens in Philadelphia May 3, 1773 Birthday - Giuseppe Acerbi Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat May 3, 1774 "Death - Heinrich A Fouqu Prussian general (7 year war), dies at 76" May 3, 1783 "Death - Pieter Valck(x) South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49" May 3, 1791 The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Sejm. May 3, 1792 "Death - Carlo Zuccari composer, dies at 87" May 3, 1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city May 3, 1802 "Washington, D C is incorporated as a city" May 3, 1802 "Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city." May 3, 1808 Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. May 3, 1808 "Goya's ""Executions of the 3rd of May""" May 3, 1808 Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Prncipe Po hill. May 3, 1810 "Lord Byron swam the Hellespont* this day. It is a 40 mi. (64 km) long, 1-5 mi. (1.6-8 km) wide strait between European and Asian Turkey" May 3, 1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont May 3, 1811 "Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk purchases 300,000 sq km of Manitoba from the Hudson's Bay Company for a Red River colony named to be named Assiniboia." May 3, 1815 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples May 3, 1815 Birthday - Hermanus W Witteveen Dutch theologist May 3, 1815 "Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war." May 3, 1816 "Birthday - Montgomery Cunningham Meigs Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892" May 3, 1819 Birthday - Nicola De Giosa composer May 3, 1822 "Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France)" May 3, 1826 Birthday - Charles XV Louis E King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet May 3, 1830 The first regular steam train passenger service starts May 3, 1837 The University of Athens is founded. It is the oldest university in the eastern Mediterranean. May 3, 1839 "Death - Ferdinando Paer composer, dies at 67" May 3, 1841 "Death - Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74" May 3, 1844 Birthday - Edouard A Drumont French anti-semitic journalist May 3, 1844 "Birthday - Richard D'Oyly Carte England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)" May 3, 1845 "Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China" May 3, 1845 The first black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts) May 3, 1849 "Birthday - Jacob Riis Denmark, reporter (New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun)" May 3, 1849 The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848. May 3, 1851 Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire; 30 die May 3, 1854 "Death - William Beale composer, dies at 70" May 3, 1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens May 3, 1856 "Death - Adolfo Fumagalli composer, dies at 27" May 3, 1856 "Death - Adolphe Charles Adam French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52" May 3, 1859 Birthday - Andy Adams US writer (Log of a Cowboy) May 3, 1860 Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden. May 3, 1861 "Death - Anthony Philip Heinrich composer, dies at 80" May 3, 1861 General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan May 3, 1861 "Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen" May 3, 1863 Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights) May 3, 1863 Battle of Salem Church VA May 3, 1863 "Death - Elisha Franklin ""Bull"" Paxton US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35" May 3, 1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria LA: Confederate assault May 3, 1867 Birthday - Jack Hearne cricketer (cousin of George & Alec 12 Tests for England) May 3, 1867 Birthday - Valre-Gille Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre) May 3, 1868 "Death - Olof Wilhelm Udden composer, dies at 68" May 3, 1873 Birthday - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Denmark) May 3, 1873 "Birthday - Nikolay N Tcherepnin St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs" May 3, 1874 "Birthday - Franois Coty Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker" May 3, 1876 Birthday - Bert Hopkins cricketer (Australian pace bowler of the 1900's) May 3, 1876 Birthday - John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer cricketer (Sussex) May 3, 1881 "Death - Josip Jurcic Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies" May 3, 1886 Birthday - Marcel Dupr French organist/composer May 3, 1886 M A Maclean elected first mayor of Vancouver British Columbia May 3, 1887 "In the Sonora, Mexico region a 7.4 earthquake ruptured the Pitaycachi fault" May 3, 1890 Birthday - B Traven writer May 3, 1892 "Birthday - Beulah Bondi Chicago IL, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)" May 3, 1892 Birthday - Sir George Thomson demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937) May 3, 1893 Birthday - Hope Landin Minneapolis MN May 3, 1893 "Death - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal composer, dies at 73" May 3, 1895 Birthday - Earnest Kantorowicz German/US historian (Laudes regiae) May 3, 1895 Birthday - Gabriel Chevallier French author (Le petit gnral) May 3, 1895 "Birthday - Zoltan Korda Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)" May 3, 1897 "Birthday - V K Krishna Menon India, nationalist/statesman" May 3, 1898 "Birthday - Golda Meir [Meyerson] Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)" May 3, 1898 Birthday - Septima Poinsette Clark civil rights activist/educator May 3, 1898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio (San Fransisco) May 3, 1899 "Birthday - Aline MacMahon McKeesport PA, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)" May 3, 1901 "Birthday - Gino Cervi Bologna Italy, actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja)" May 3, 1901 "Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville FL" May 3, 1901 "Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, FL." May 3, 1902 Birthday - Hugo Friedhofer composer May 3, 1902 "Birthday - Jack Larue New York NY, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)" May 3, 1902 "Birthday - Seton I Miller Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul)" May 3, 1902 "Birthday - Walter Slezak Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)" May 3, 1902 "Death - David R Capriles Curaaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64" May 3, 1903 "Birthday - Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) Tacoma WA, crooner/actor (White Christmas, Going My Way)" May 3, 1904 "Birthday - Charles ""Red"" Ruffing New York Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)" May 3, 1904 "Birthday - John Breeden San Fransisco CA, actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street)" May 3, 1905 Birthday - Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach duke of Bavaria May 3, 1905 "Birthday - Sebastian Lewis Shaw actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste)" May 3, 1906 "Birthday - Mary Astor Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific)" May 3, 1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey May 3, 1907 "Birthday - Earl Wilson Rockford OH, columnist (Midnight Earl)" May 3, 1910 Birthday - Alceo Galliera composer May 3, 1911 "Birthday - John Rhea ""Yank"" Lawson trumpeter" May 3, 1913 "Birthday - Earl Blackwell Atlanta GA, author (Celebrity Register)" May 3, 1913 Birthday - William M Inge US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953) May 3, 1915 Birthday - Evencio Castellanos composer May 3, 1916 "Birthday - Henry Barbosa Gonzalez San Antonio TX, (Representative-D-TX, 1961- )" May 3, 1916 Birthday - Pierre Emmanuel French poet (Sodome) May 3, 1916 "Death - Pdraic Pearse Irish nationalist, executed by British firing squad" May 3, 1916 Easter Rising leaders are executed in Dublin. May 3, 1917 Birthday - James Penberthy composer May 3, 1917 "Death - Norman Callaway New South Wales bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies" May 3, 1917 "Lt. Robert G. Combe (27th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Corss at Acheville, France" May 3, 1917 Second attack on Bullecourt sector of Hindenburg Line in France May 3, 1919 Afgh�nist�n Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain May 3, 1919 America's first passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City) May 3, 1919 "Birthday - Betty Comden Brooklyn NY, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing)" May 3, 1919 "Birthday - Pete Seeger New York NY, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)" May 3, 1920 Birthday - Sugar Ray Robinson [Walter Smith] middleweight/welterweight boxer (champion) May 3, 1921 Birthday - Vasco dos Santos Gonalves Portuguese leftist colonel May 3, 1921 West Virginia imposes first state sales tax May 3, 1922 Birthday - Marina Svetlova ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo) May 3, 1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium May 3, 1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk May 3, 1923 "Birthday - Ralph M Hall (Representative-D-TX, 1981- )" May 3, 1923 Thr first nonstop transcontinental flight (New York-San Diego) completed May 3, 1924 "Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber" May 3, 1924 "Birthday - Mary Carver Los Angeles CA, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)" May 3, 1925 "Birthday - Nina Bara Buenos Aires Argentina, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)" May 3, 1925 "Death - Clment Ader French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84" May 3, 1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners May 3, 1926 "Death - Napoleon V Bonaparte French pretender to the throne, dies at 63" May 3, 1926 "US marines land in Nicaragua (9-months after leaving), stay until 1933" May 3, 1927 "Francis E.J. Wilde of Meadowmere Park, NY patented the electric sign flasher." May 3, 1928 "Birthday - James Brown Augusta GA, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants)" May 3, 1928 "Birthday - Jeanne Bal Santa Monica CA, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)" May 3, 1928 "Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China." May 3, 1929 Birthday - Hendrik L van Beek Dutch Vice-Admiral May 3, 1929 Birthday - Jaharna Imam Bangladeshi writer/political activist May 3, 1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists May 3, 1930 Birthday - David Evatt Tunley composer May 3, 1931 Birthday - Alex Cord actor (The Dead are Alive) May 3, 1931 Birthday - Joseph Lichtman Layton dancer May 3, 1931 "Death - Frank Hoyt Losey composer, dies at 59" May 3, 1931 "Death - Otto Winter-Hjelm composer, dies at 93" May 3, 1932 "24 tourists begin first air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switzerland)" May 3, 1932 "Death - Anton Wildgans Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at 51" May 3, 1933 Birthday - Collie Smith cricketer (exciting West Indies all-rounder all too briefly) May 3, 1934 Birthday - Georg Kroll composer May 3, 1935 "Birthday - Donald P Hodel Portland OR, US Secretary of Interior (1985-89)" May 3, 1936 "Birthday - Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey] Madras India, singer (After The Lovin', Release Me, Quando Quando Quando)" May 3, 1936 French People's Front wins elections May 3, 1937 "Birthday - Frankie Valli [Castelluccio] Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)" May 3, 1937 "Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction." May 3, 1937 "Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for ""Gone With the Wind""" May 3, 1938 Concentration camp at Flossenb�rg goes into use May 3, 1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain May 3, 1938 Viewers of W2XBS-TV (now WCBS-TV) watched the first book review show May 3, 1939 "Belly up to the bar for this one. " Beer Barrel Polka", one of the standards of American music, was recorded by The Andrews Sisters for Decca Records. Patti, Maxine and LaVerne turned this song into a giant hit." May 3, 1939 "Birthday - Jonathan David Harvey English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)" May 3, 1939 "Birthday - Jos Torres US, boxer (Olympics)" May 3, 1939 "Birthday - Samantha Eggar London England, actress (Anna and the King, Collector)" May 3, 1939 "Death - [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener German general, dies at 71" May 3, 1941 "Birthday - Nona Gaprindasvili USSR, world women's chess champion (1962-78)" May 3, 1941 German air raid on Liverpool May 3, 1942 "Birthday - Lynn Farleigh Bristol England, actress (Lovers of Their Time)" May 3, 1942 "Birthday - Vera Cslavsk-Odlozilova Czechoslovakia, gymnast (Olympics-gold-1964, 68)" May 3, 1942 "Death - Johan H Westerveld Lieutenant-Colonel/leader Order Service, executed" May 3, 1942 Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. May 3, 1942 "Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands" May 3, 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter May 3, 1942 "Nazis execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands" May 3, 1943 Birthday - John Costello historian May 3, 1943 "Death - Leslie Heward composer, dies at 45" May 3, 1943 "Squadron Leader, Leonard Henry Trent, 487 (NZ) Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over Amsterdam Holland" May 3, 1943 "Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed" May 3, 1943 US first armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia May 3, 1944 """Meet Me in St Louis"" opens on Broadway" May 3, 1944 Birthday - Ian Peter Leslie Smith journalist May 3, 1944 Birthday - Peter Staples rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing) May 3, 1944 Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine May 3, 1944 Meat rationing ends in US May 3, 1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg May 3, 1945 Birthday - Sadiq Mohammad cricketer (attacking Pakistan opening batsman 1969-81) May 3, 1945 British troop join in Rangoon May 3, 1945 "Death - Louis L H de Visser Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66" May 3, 1945 "First Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar." May 3, 1945 First Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen May 3, 1945 "German ship ""Cap Arcona"" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed" May 3, 1945 Rangoon taken by 26th Indian Division May 3, 1946 "Birthday - Greg Gumbel sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)" May 3, 1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins May 3, 1946 World War II: 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. May 3, 1947 "Birthday - Doug Henning Fort Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic)" May 3, 1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy May 3, 1947 New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. May 3, 1948 U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. May 3, 1949 "Birthday - Albert Sacco Jr Boston MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)" May 3, 1949 "Birthday - Ron Wyden (Representative-D-OR, 1981- )" May 3, 1949 The first firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km May 3, 1950 "Birthday - Mary Hopkin South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)" May 3, 1951 "Birthday - Christopher Cross [Geppert] San Antonio TX, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)" May 3, 1951 London's Royal Festival Hall opens. May 3, 1951 The Festival of Britain opens. May 3, 1952 """Call Me Madam"" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances" May 3, 1952 "Birthday - Allen Wells England, 100 meter dash (Olympics-gold-1980)" May 3, 1952 The first airplane to land at the geographic location of the North Pole did so on this day. May 3, 1952 The first landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole May 3, 1952 U.S. Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the North Pole. May 3, 1953 "Birthday - Bruce Hall Champaign IL, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon)" May 3, 1953 Birthday - Van McLain rocker (Shooting Star) May 3, 1955 "Birthday - David Hookes cricketer (dashing Australian LHB, S Aussie stalwart)" May 3, 1955 Birthday - Steve Jones English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy) May 3, 1955 "Death - Philips C Visser explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies" May 3, 1956 "A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')" May 3, 1956 The judo World Championships are first held. May 3, 1957 "Birthday - Cactus Moser Montrose CO, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)" May 3, 1957 "Birthday - Rod Langway Formosa, NHL defenseman (Montral Canadiens, Washington Capitals)" May 3, 1957 "Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner Walter O’ Malley agreed to move the team from Flatbush to sunny Los Angeles. Initially, only exhibition games were held at the L.A. Coliseum" May 3, 1957 "Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California." May 3, 1958 "Death - Frank Foster cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies" May 3, 1958 "In Brockville, Ontario a Trust company is robbed of $3.3 million dollars in bonds and securities." May 3, 1959 "Birthday - Ben Elton London UK, actor (Stark, Friday Night Live)" May 3, 1959 "Birthday - David Ball Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell)" May 3, 1959 The first Grammy Awards are announced. May 3, 1960 "Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical ""Fantasticks"" premieres in NYC" May 3, 1960 "The Anne Frank House opened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands." May 3, 1960 "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 3, 1961 "Death - Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty French philosopher, dies at 53" May 3, 1962 "A freight train derail and rail line track, where collided with 6 cars commuter train carrying bound Toride, when crush passenger move to safety place, another commuter train carrying bound Ueno head-collided and crash at Mikawajima station, Joban Line, downtown Tokyo, Japan. At least 160 killed, another 290 injured." May 3, 1962 "Birthday - Anthony Gilligan Penrith New South Wales, Australasia golfer" May 3, 1962 "Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)" May 3, 1963 Birthday - Jeff Hornacek NBA guard (Utah Jazz) May 3, 1963 "Over 1,600 residents of Hay River and Fort Simpson airlifted to safety after towns struck by flooding; the townsites will be moved to higher ground." May 3, 1964 "Birthday - Ron Hextall Winnipeg, NHL goalie (Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders)" May 3, 1964 Death - Diana Wynyard dies at 58 May 3, 1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US May 3, 1965 "Death - Howard Spring British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76" May 3, 1965 "Death - Otto Forst de Battaglia Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75" May 3, 1965 "In El Salvador a 6.0 earthquake left 125 persons dead, about 500 injured, and an estimated 48,000 homeless" May 3, 1965 "The first use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite" May 3, 1966 "Birthday - Paul Stevenson Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)" May 3, 1966 Death - Wylie Watson dies at 77 May 3, 1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University May 3, 1968 "Birthday - Deborah Caprioglio Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter)" May 3, 1968 "Birthday - Jay Darlington London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker)" May 3, 1968 "Death - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev composer, dies at 86" May 3, 1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International May 3, 1969 "Birthday - Karen Kraft San Mateo CA, rower (Olympics-silver-96)" May 3, 1969 "Death - Imre Vincze composer, dies at 42" May 3, 1970 "Birthday - Alexia Dechaume-Ballert La Rochelle France, tennis star (1992 Australia)" May 3, 1970 "Birthday - Ted Crowley Concord MA, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)" May 3, 1970 "Death - Candelario Huizar composer, dies at 82" May 3, 1971 "Anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe begin four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital." May 3, 1971 Birthday - James Roberson defensive end (Tennessee Oilers) May 3, 1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader May 3, 1971 "Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days" May 3, 1972 Birthday - Brett Hayman Australian rower (Olympics-96) May 3, 1972 Birthday - Josh Taves defensive end (New England Patriots) May 3, 1972 "Birthday - Vyacheslav Kozlov Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward (Detroit Red Wings)" May 3, 1972 "Death - Bruce Cabot actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68" May 3, 1972 "Death - Dan Blocker actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43" May 3, 1972 "Death - Les Harvey rocker, dies" May 3, 1973 "Birthday - Dominique Monami Verviers Belgium, tennis star" May 3, 1973 Birthday - Michel Traveller soccer player (Ajax) May 3, 1973 "Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 meters), topped out" May 3, 1973 The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building. May 3, 1975 "Death - Samuel Gonard chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78" May 3, 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Mud - Oh Boy May 3, 1976 Death - David Bruce dies at 62 May 3, 1976 "Death - Ernie Nevers college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72" May 3, 1978 """Sun Day"" - solar energy events are held in US" May 3, 1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II May 3, 1978 "Death - Wim van Doorne Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71" May 3, 1978 "Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston" May 3, 1978 West Indies all set to lose cricket test vs Australia at Kingston till riots end game May 3, 1979 Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher to become United Kingdom's first female prime minister as the Labour government is ousted in parliamentary elections. May 3, 1979 "Death - Erin O'Brien-Moore actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76" May 3, 1979 The Yukon River submerges Dawson under more than two metres of water; downtown declared a disaster area. May 3, 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno May 3, 1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) May 3, 1982 "Death - Helmut Dantine actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64" May 3, 1982 "Death - Hugh Beaumont actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73" May 3, 1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts May 3, 1983 "Death - Vaughn Taylor actor (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 72" May 3, 1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe May 3, 1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons May 3, 1986 "Air Lanka crashes, killing 22" May 3, 1986 "Death - Robert Alda actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72" May 3, 1986 Horse racing legend Bill Shoemaker became the oldest jockey to win the the Kentucky Derby. May 3, 1986 "NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit" May 3, 1986 Twenty-one people are killed and 41 injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. May 3, 1987 "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 3, 1987 "Death - Dicky Fuller cricketer (one Test for West Indies 1935, one run, 0-12), dies" May 3, 1987 Death - Yolande Christina Dalida dies at 54 May 3, 1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart May 3, 1988 "4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs FL" May 3, 1988 "Jasper Johns' ""Diver"" sold for $4,200,000" May 3, 1989 "Death - Christine Jorgensen 1st transsexual, dies at 62" May 3, 1989 Death - Muriel Ostriche dies May 3, 1989 Fenerbahce beats Galatasaray 4-3 coming back from 3-0. May 3, 1990 "Death - Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov] patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies at 79" May 3, 1991 "356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke" May 3, 1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass May 3, 1991 Brian Mulroney 1939- promises 500-job GST processing centre for Summerside to help community hard hit by closing of Canadian Forces Base. May 3, 1991 "Death - Gerrit Mik child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies" May 3, 1991 "Death - Jersy Kosinski author (Being There), dies at 57" May 3, 1991 "Death - Margaret Tallichet actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies" May 3, 1991 The Declaration of Windhoek is signed. May 3, 1992 Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs May 3, 1992 "Death - Elizabeth Lennox radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98" May 3, 1992 "Death - George Murphy (Senator-R-CA, 1965-71)/actor, dies of Leukemia at 89" May 3, 1992 Death - Peter Bruni dies of heart failure at 60 May 3, 1993 """Kiss of the Spider Woman"" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances" May 3, 1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins May 3, 1994 "Death - Gustaaf baron van Hemert Dingshof mayor of Maarn, dies at 78" May 3, 1994 "Death - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63" May 3, 1994 "Death - Milford Dolliole pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90" May 3, 1994 "Death - Richard Scarry author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74" May 3, 1996 "Death - Jack Weston actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71" May 3, 1996 "Death - Timothy Gullikson tennis player/coach, dies at 45" May 3, 1996 "In Western Nei Mongol, China a 6.0 earthquake killed at least 18 people, 300 injured and extensive damage in the Baotou area." May 3, 1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue May 3, 1998 "RaiLink-MacKenzie Northern takes over the operation of the CN line from Smith, AB to Hay River, NWT." May 3, 1999 "Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado killing 42 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak." May 3, 1999 Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time. May 3, 2000 "The sport of Geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet." May 3, 2001 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 3, 2002 "A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight." May 3, 2003 New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses. May 3, 2005 The first elected government in the history of Iraq is sworn in. May 3, 2006 "Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors." May 3, 2006 "Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia." May 3, 2007 "4 year old Madeleine McCann disappears from Praia da Luz, Portugal."   Visitors' Postings May 03, 1949 Visitor posting - BILL MANSFIELD IS BORN Peoples-History.com