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03 May 1374
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.
03 May 1342
Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
03 May 1382
Battle of Beverhoutsveldn near Bruges - Ghent town army beats drunken Bruges militia
03 May 1491
Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of Joo I
03 May 1558
Ferdinand I officially appointed Holy Roman Emperor after his brother Charles abdicated in 1556
03 May 1629
French huguenot leader Duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
03 May 1654
Bridge at Rowley Massachusetts begins charging tolls for animals
03 May 1660
Sweden Poland Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
03 May 1661
Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
03 May 1722
Pierre de Marivaux La Double Inconstance premieres in Paris
03 May 1747
Willem IV appointed viceroy of HollandUtrecht
03 May 1765
1st North American medical college opens in Philadelphia
03 May 1791
Constitution of May 3 is proclaimed by the Great Sejm (Parliament) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth becoming the 1st modern constitution in Europe
03 May 1808
Finnish War Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia
03 May 1808
Peninsular War The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Prncipe Po hill
03 May 1815
Battle at Tolentino Austria beats King Joachim of Naples
03 May 1822
Society for the Propagation of the Faith founded in Lyon France
03 May 1830
1st regular steam train passenger service starts
03 May 1841
New Zealand proclaimed a colony independent of New South Wales
03 May 1845
1st African American lawyer Macon B Allen admitted to the bar in Massachusetts
03 May 1845
Fire kills 1600 in popular theater in Canton China
03 May 1846
Mexican Army begins the Siege of Fort Texas near Brownsville Texas during the Mexican-American War
03 May 1849
The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848
03 May 1851
Sixth major fire in San Francisco destroys 1500-2000 buildings
03 May 1860
Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden
03 May 1861
General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan for the North against the South in American Civil War
03 May 1861
Lincoln asks for 42000 Army Volunteers and another 18000 seamen
03 May 1863
The Second Battle of Fredericksburg occurs in Virginia part of the Chancellorsville Campaign of the American Civil War
03 May 1864
3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana Confederate assault
03 May 1867
The Hudsons Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
03 May 1886
M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver British Columbia
03 May 1898
Camp Merriman forms at Presidio San Francisco (see 0517)
03 May 1900
26th Kentucky Derby Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 206.25
03 May 1901
Fire destroys 1700 buildings in Jacksonville Florida
03 May 1902
28th Kentucky Derby Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 208.75
03 May 1903
AVC Heracles (SC Heracles 74) soccer team forms in Almelo
03 May 1906
British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
03 May 1909
35th Kentucky Derby Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 208.2
03 May 1910
Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is renamed the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
03 May 1916
Irish Nationalists Patrick Pearse Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas Clarke are executed by firing squad following their involvement in the Easter Rising
03 May 1917
1st performance of Ernest Blochs symphony Israel
03 May 1917
Ernest Blochs Schelomo premieres in Carnegie Hall NYC
03 May 1919
Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
03 May 1922
Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
03 May 1923
1st nonstop north American transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
03 May 1924
Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha Nebraska by Sam Beber
03 May 1926
Britains Trade Union Congress calls for the countrys first ever general strike begins at 1 minute to midnight in support striking coal miners lasts 9 days
03 May 1926
Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
03 May 1926
US Marines land in Nicaragua (9 months after leaving) stay until 1933
03 May 1932
24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle Switzerland)
03 May 1933
Nellie T Ross the 1st female director of the US Mint takes office
03 May 1938
Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use
03 May 1938
Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park he doesnt lose there until May 12 1941
03 May 1939
The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Subhash Chandra Bose
03 May 1941
67th Kentucky Derby Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway 1st leg of successful Triple Crown
03 May 1942
Japanese troop attack Tulagi Gavutu & Tanambogo Solomon Islands during WWII
03 May 1942
German Luftwaffe again bombs Exeter destroying its town centre
03 May 1942
Nazis execute 72 ODers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen Netherlands
03 May 1942
Nazis require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
03 May 1943
Strike against obligatory labor camps ends after 200 killed
03 May 1943
US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
03 May 1945
1st Polish Armoured Division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West occupies Wilhelmshafen in Germany
03 May 1945
Allies arrest German physicist Werner Heisenberg
03 May 1945
World War II German ship Cap Arcona laden with prisoners sunk by Royal Air Force in East Sea 5800 killed - one of largest maritime losses of life
03 May 1946
International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
03 May 1947
73rd Kentucky Derby Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 206.8
03 May 1948
1st broadcast of CBS Evening News - longest running network news show in the US
03 May 1949
1st firing of a US Viking rocket reached 80 km
03 May 1951
Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
03 May 1951
NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
03 May 1952
Call Me Madam closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
03 May 1952
1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
03 May 1952
78th Kentucky Derby Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins his record fifth Derby
03 May 1953
WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
03 May 1953
Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims Freedom to Read
03 May 1954
KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
03 May 1954
WHA TV channel 21 in Madison WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
03 May 1956
Frank Loessers musical Most Happy Fella opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
03 May 1956
A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13000)
03 May 1958
84th Kentucky Derby Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 205
03 May 1958
WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston he quits
03 May 1959
Tigers Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
03 May 1960
Musical Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones premieres in NYC (worlds longest running musical)
03 May 1961
Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
03 May 1962
Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train & a freight killing 163 injuring 400 in Tokyo Japan
03 May 1963
Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
03 May 1963
Birmingham officials turn high pressure hoses and dogs on childrens crusade protest against segregation prompting widespread condemnation
03 May 1965
1st use of satellite TV Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
03 May 1965
3rd Mayors Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
03 May 1965
Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
03 May 1965
Don Steele begins a 40 year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles California)
03 May 1969
95th Kentucky Derby Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 201.8
03 May 1970
24th NBA Championship NY Knicks beat LA Lakers 4 games to 3
03 May 1970
Trans-Arabian Pipeline delivery from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean interrupted in Syria driving oil tanker rates to all time highs
03 May 1971
All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
03 May 1965
KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
03 May 1965
Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
03 May 1966
WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
03 May 1967
African American students seize finance building at Northwestern University
03 May 1968
Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
03 May 1969
Trumpets of the Lord closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 performances
03 May 1971
Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German communist party leader
03 May 1971
Nixon administration arrests 13000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
03 May 1971
Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
03 May 1973
Chicagos Sears Tower worlds tallest building (443 m) topped out
03 May 1975
101st Kentucky Derby Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 202
03 May 1975
Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (24015.8)
03 May 1976
Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (4626)
03 May 1977
NFL Draft Ricky Bell from USC first pick by Tampa Bay Buccaneers
03 May 1978
Sun Day - solar energy events are held in US
03 May 1978
Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson at Kingston
03 May 1978
WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston till riots end game
03 May 1978
First unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (spam) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the US west coast
03 May 1979
Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
03 May 1979
NFL Draft Tom Cousineau from Ohio State first pick by Buffalo Bills
03 May 1980
106th Kentucky Derby Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 202
03 May 1980
Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR
03 May 1980
Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
03 May 1981
Can-Can closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
03 May 1981
Moony Shapiro Songbook opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
03 May 1982
ABCs All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
03 May 1982
NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASAs budget
03 May 1983
NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final Edmonton Oilers beat Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 0
03 May 1985
Date of 5 million check in A View To A Kill
03 May 1986
112th Kentucky Derby Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 202.8
03 May 1986
Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR
03 May 1986
NASA launches Goes-G it fails to achieve orbit
03 May 1986
NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
03 May 1986
31st Eurovision Song Contest Sandra Kim for Belgium wins singing Jaime la vie in Bergen
03 May 1987
Mikado closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
03 May 1987
Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
03 May 1988
4200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
03 May 1991
356th & final episode of CBS second longest running series Dallas (2nd only to Gunsmoke)
03 May 1991
The Declaration of Windhoek (on press freedom) signed by African journalists
03 May 1992
Balts Gregg Olson 25 is youngest to record 100 saves
03 May 1992
Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses) beat Frankfurt 20-17
03 May 1993
Kiss of the Spider Woman opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances
03 May 1994
D66Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
03 May 1995
My Thing of Love opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
03 May 1995
Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
03 May 1995
David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player Gus & Buddy)
03 May 1996
Martin Moxon & Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks v Glam
03 May 1997
123rd Kentucky Derby Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 202.3
03 May 1997
42nd Eurovision Song Contest Katrina and the Waves for United Kingdom wins singing Love Shine a Light in Dublin
03 May 1999
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 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.
03 May 1999
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11000 for the first time in its history at 11014.70.
03 May 1999
Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time.
03 May 2000
The sport of geocaching begins with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
03 May 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.
03 May 2002
A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India killing eight.
03 May 1382
Battle of Beverhoutsveld near Bruges in modern-day Belgium - the army of Ghent beats a drunken Bruges militia
03 May 1846
Mexican Army begins the Siege of Fort Texas near Brownsville Texas during the MexicanAmerican War
03 May 1979
MLB Cleveland Indian Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
03 May 1999
World Snooker Championship Crucible Theatre Sheffield Stephen Hendry of Scotland defeats Welshman Mark Williams 18-11 for a record 7th world crown
03 May 2003
New Hampshires famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
03 May 2003
129th Kentucky Derby Jose Santos aboard Funny Cide wins in 201.19
03 May 1921
Northern Ireland is created under the UK Government of Ireland Act partitioning off six north eastern counties with a Protestant majority
03 May 1922
Mayor Hylan closes 2 streets for building of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx NYC
03 May 1956
Frank Loessers musical Most Happy Fella opens at Imperial Theater NYC runs for 678 performances
03 May 1491
Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptized by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of Joo I
03 May 1537
Strategic city of Santa Cruz de Mompox founded on the Magdalena River (modern Colombia) by Spanish conquistadors
03 May 1917
Ernest Blochs Schelomo Rhapsodie Hbraque and Israel Symphony premiere in Carnegie Hall NYC with Artur Bodanzky conducting the former and the composer conducting the latter
03 May 1932
24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London England to Basel Switzerland)
03 May 1941
WPAT-AM radio in Patterson New Jersey begins broadcasting
03 May 1945
Louis de Visser Dutch Communist politician (CPN) killed in Allied bombing of German prison ship SS Cap Arcona at 66
03 May 1954
KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore Oklahoma(ABC) begins broadcasting
03 May 1954
WHA TV channel 21 in Madison Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting
03 May 1956
Frank Loessers musical The Most Happy Fella based on Sidney Howards 1924 stage drama They Knew What They Wanted opens at Imperial Theater NYC runs for 678 performances
03 May 1958
WINS suspends disc jockey Alan Freed for being charged with inciting a riot at a Boston concert he quits charges are dropped
03 May 1970
World premiere of The Beatles Let it Be documentary film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in New York City
03 May 1992
Baltimore Orioles Gregg Olson 25 is youngest to record 100 saves
03 May 1640
English Upper house accepts Act of Attainder to execute Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl of Strafford a leading advisor to Charles II
03 May 1722
Pierre de Marivauxs play La Double Inconstance premieres in Paris
03 May 1747
William IV Prince of Orange appointed Stadtholder of Holland and Utrecht
03 May 1830
First regular steam train passenger service in the US starts in South Carolina with U.S.-built locomotive The Best Friend of Charleston
03 May 1837
The University of Athens is founded by King Otto of Greece - first modern university in the Eastern Mediterranean
03 May 1841
New Zealand is proclaimed a colony independent of New South Wales
03 May 1845
1st African American lawyer Macon B. Allen admitted to the bar in Massachusetts
03 May 1845
Fire kills 1600 in a popular theater in Canton China
03 May 1886
M. A. Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver British Columbia
03 May 1887
Nanaimo Mine Disaster explosion in the mine kills 150 men - British Columbias worst mine disaster [1]
03 May 1932
24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday from London England to Basel Switzerland
03 May 1933
Nellie T. Ross takes office as the first female director of the US Mint
03 May 1942
Nazis execute 71 Dutch resistance fighters in reprisal at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg Germany
03 May 1943
US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
03 May 1960
Musical Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones opens in Greeenwich Village NYC becomes the longest-running musical in the universe
03 May 1971
Pulitzer prize for General Non-Fiction awarded to John Toland for The Rising Sun
03 May 1971
US National Public Radio begins programming with newscast All Things Considered
03 May 1971
US President Nixon administration authorizes arrest of 13000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
03 May 1973
Chicagos Sears Tower worlds tallest building (443 m) tops out
03 May 1978
Sun Day - solar energy events held in the US
03 May 1978
West Indies all set to lose the cricket test v Australia at Kingston till riots end game
03 May 1979
Martin Shermans play Bent premieres in London
03 May 1986
Bomb explodes aboard Air Lanka Flight 512 on the ground at Colombo airport killing 21
03 May 1988
Jasper Johns painting Diver sells for 4200000
03 May 1996
Martin Moxon and Michael Vaughan make 362 for the 1st wicket Yorkshire v Glamorgan
03 May 2006
Al-Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison for his part in the 911 attacks in Alexandria Virginia
03 May 2006
Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea killing 113 people on board with no survivors
03 May 2007
British girl Madeleine McCann disappears from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz Portugal
03 May 2013
Aorun zhaoi a Theropod dinosaur dating from 161 million years ago is discovered in China
03 May 2015
Chelsea wins the 201415 English football Premier League
03 May 2018
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan becomes NFLs first 30m per season player after agreeing to 150m contract extension
03 May 2018
Indian government confirms around 110 people have died in dust storms in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the last 9 days
03 May 2018
Kilauea volcano on Big Island Hawaii begins erupting forcing the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and residential areas
03 May 2019
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
03 May 2020
Brazilian confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 100000 with the death toll at 7025 the 9th country to do so
03 May 2021
DR Congo announces the end of the latest Ebola outbreak after three months with a death toll of six
03 May 2021
Former U.S. Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson becomes Administrator of NASA
03 May 2021
German police announce operation and arrests into Boystown worlds largest child abuse image website with 400000 members worldwide [1]
03 May 2021
Subway overpass carrying a train collapses in Mexico City killing at least 24 people
03 May 2021
US Environmental Protection Agency takes first significant step against climate change by announcing new limits on hydrofluorocarbons (-85% over 15 years) [1]
03 May 2021
World Snooker Championship Crucible Theatre Sheffield Englishman Mark Selby wins his 4th world title with an 18-15 win over countryman Shaun Murphy
03 May 1342
Count Hartmann II becomes the ruler of Vaduz Liechtenstein
03 May 1660
Sweden Poland Brandenburg and Austria sign the Treaty of Oliva one of the peace treaties ending the Second Northern War
03 May 1791
Constitution of May 3 is proclaimed by the Great Sejm (Parliament) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the first modern constitution in Europe
03 May 1923
First non-stop North American transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) is completed
03 May 1945
German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona laden with prisoners is sunk by the Royal Air Force in the western Baltic Sea killing 5800 people in one of the largest maritime losses of life in World War II
03 May 1952
First airplane lands at the geographic North Pole
03 May 1956
A new range of mountains is discovered in Antarctica with two peaks over 13000 feet
03 May 1960
Musical The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones opens in Greenwich Village NYC becomes the longest-running musical in the universe
03 May 1962
Express train crashes into the wreckage of a commuter train and a freight train killing 163 and injuring 400 in Tokyo Japan
03 May 1965
First use of satellite TV Today Show on Early Bird satellite
03 May 1971
US National Public Radio begins programming with newscast All Things Considered airing on 112 stations nationwide
03 May 1978
First unsolicited bulk commercial email (spam) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the US West Coast
03 May 1987
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
03 May 1999
World Snooker Championship Crucible Theatre Sheffield Stephen Hendry of Scotland defeats Welshman Mark Williams 18-11 for a record seventh world crown
03 May 2000
Sport of geocaching begins with the first cache placed and the GPS coordinates posted on Usenet
03 May 2001
The United States loses its seat on the UN Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947
03 May 2022
Heatwave continues across North and Central India disproportionally affecting the poor with March and April temperatures the hottest ever recorded in 122 years [1]
03 May 2022
US government says W.N.B.A. player Brittney Griner has been wrongfully detained in Russia after being taken into custody when drugs were found in her luggage in Feb [1]
03 May 2023
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]
03 May 1374
BC Solar eclipse lasting 2 minutes 7 seconds is 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.
03 May 1382
Battle of Beverhoutsveld near Bruges in modern-day Belgium the army of Ghent defeats a drunken Bruges militia
03 May 1624
Spanish silver fleet sails towards Panama to collect silver and gold
03 May 1654
Bridge at Rowley Massachusetts begins charging tolls for animals
03 May 1661
Johannes Hevelius observes the third transit of Mercury ever to be seen
03 May 1765
First North American medical school is established at the College of Philadelphia
03 May 1837
The University of Athens is founded by King Otto of Greece and is the first modern university in the Eastern Mediterranean
03 May 1845
First African American lawyer Macon B. Allen admitted to the bar in Massachusetts
03 May 1849
The May Uprising in Dresden begins the last of the German revolutions of 1848
03 May 1851
Sixth major fire in San Francisco destroys 15002000 buildings
03 May 1864
Red River Campaign third day of Battle at Alexandria Louisiana
03 May 1886
M. A. Maclean is elected first mayor of Vancouver British Columbia
03 May 1887
Nanaimo Mine Disaster explosion in the mine kills 150 men British Columbias worst mine disaster [1]
03 May 1906
British-controlled Egypt secures control over the Sinai Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire
03 May 1916
Irish Nationalists Patrick Pearse Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas Clarke are executed by firing squad following their involvement in the Easter Rising
03 May 1919
Emir of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan declares war against Great Britain
03 May 1922
Mayor Hylan closes two streets for building of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx NYC
03 May 1923
First non-stop North American transcontinental flight from New York to San Diego is completed
03 May 1924
Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha Nebraska by Sam Beber
03 May 1926
Pulitzer Prize is awarded to Sinclair Lewis for Arrowsmith however Lewis declines the award only author in history to turn down a Pulitzer Prize
03 May 1932
24 tourists begin first air-charter holiday from London England to Basel Switzerland
03 May 1938
Flossenbrg concentration camp is officially established in Bavaria Germany
03 May 1938
Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park he doesnt lose there until May 12 1941
03 May 1943
Nationwide strikes in German-occupied Netherlands against obligatory labor camps ends after 200 people are killed
03 May 1943
US 1st Armored Division occupies Mateur Tunisia from Axis forces
03 May 1945
Louis de Visser Dutch Communist politician (CPN) is killed in Allied bombing of German prison ship SS Cap Arcona at 66
03 May 1946
International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo War Crimes Trial) begins proceedings in Tokyo Japan
03 May 1948
First broadcast of CBS Evening News longest running network news show in the US
03 May 1949
First US Viking rocket launches reaching an apogee of 80 kilometers
03 May 1951
New York Yankees Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
03 May 1953
WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford Illinois (NBC) begins broadcasting
03 May 1954
KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore Oklahoma (ABC) begins broadcasting
03 May 1960
Musical The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones opens in Greenwich Village NYC becomes the longest-running musical in the universe
03 May 1965
Cambodia severes diplomatic relations with the US
03 May 1965
Pulitzer Prize is awarded to Irwin Unger for The Greenback Era
03 May 1966
WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo Ohio (ABC) begins broadcasting
03 May 1968
Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International
03 May 1971
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction is awarded to John Toland for The Rising Sun
03 May 1973
The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped off at 110 stories and 1451 feet worlds tallest building until 1998
03 May 1975
Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon with 24015.8
03 May 1976
Pan Am Boeing 747SP lands after a record flight around world in just 46 hours
03 May 1978
West Indies all set to lose the cricket test v Australia at Kingston till riots end game in the last test match appearance for Bob Simpson
03 May 1981
Moony Shapiro Songbook opens and closes at the Morosco Theater in NYC
03 May 1982
ABCs All Talk network begins radio broadcasting (two west coast stations)
03 May 1982
New York Times reports that the military will get 25% of NASAs budget
03 May 1983
US National Conference of Catholic Bishops condemn nuclear weapons
03 May 1986
Bomb explodes aboard Air Lanka Flight 512 on the ground at Colombo airport killing 21 people
03 May 1986
Cubs third baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR
03 May 1986
NASA launches GOES-G but it fails to reach orbit
03 May 1988
4200 kilograms of Colombian cocaine are seized in Tarpon Springs Florida
03 May 1992
Ohio Glory wins first WLAF game after 6 loses to defeat Frankfurt 20-17
03 May 1994
Wim Kok and the Labour Party win Dutch general election
03 May 1995
Australia defeats the West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
03 May 1995
David Bell makes his MLB debut for the Cleveland Indians (3rd generation player Gus & Buddy)
03 May 1999
Oklahoma City Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado which kills 42 people injurs 665 and causes 1 billion in damages one of 66 from the Oklahoma tornado outbreak
03 May 2002
Military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India killing eight people
03 May 2006
Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea killing all 113 people on board with no survivors
03 May 2013
Aorun zhaoi a Theropod dinosaur dating from 161 million years ago is discovered in China
03 May 2018
Indian government confirms around 110 people have died in dust storms in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the last nine days
03 May 2018
Kilauea volcano on Big Island Hawaii begins erupting forcing the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and residential areas
03 May 2019
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
03 May 2021
Former US Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson becomes Administrator of NASA
03 May 2021
The Democratic Republic of the Congo announces the end of the latest Ebola outbreak after three months with six deaths
03 May 2023
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
03 May 2025
Liberal Leader Peter Dutton becomes the first Leader of the Opposition to lose his seat in Australian electoral history following his loss to Anthony Albanese [1]
03 May 2025
Peoples Action Party led by Lawrence Wong wins re-election in a landslide victory in Singapores general election [1]