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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.

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1.1 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 RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With.
- Peninsular WarThe Peninsula War ( 1808- 1814) was a major conflict during the Napoleonic Wars. The war was fought in the Iberian Peninsula between Spain, Portugal and the British against the French. Progress of the War In November 1807 the Emperor Napoleon sent an army: The Madrid rebels who uprose on May 2 are fired near Príncipe PíoPrincipe Pio is the name of a hill in the western part of Madrid, Spain. It's named after the prince Pius of Savoy, who owned property there. Later barracks Cuartel de la Montana were constructed there. The Madrilene rebels who fought the Napoleonic invad hill.
1810Events January 10 Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled January 20 Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer executed March 11 Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria April 19 Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is - Lord Byron swims the HellespontHellespont (i. Sea of Helle" variously named in classical literature, Hellesponium Pelagus and Fretum Hellesponticum , was the ancient name of the Dardanelles. It was so-called from Helle, the daughter of Athamas, who was drowned here. This entry was orig.
1860Events March 6 Abraham Lincoln speaks against slavery in New Haven, Connecticut April 3 The Pony Express makes its first run. May 9 The Constitutional Union Party holds its convention and nominates John Bell for President of the United States. May 13 Batt - Charles XVKing Charles XV of Sweden, Charles IV of Norway Carl Ludvig Eugen ( May 3, 1826 August 19, 1872), was the eldest son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway, and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. On June 19, 1851 he married Louise of the Netherlands, granddaughter of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.

1.2 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-jail s 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.
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.
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.

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