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This day in history: 3 May

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348 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 3 May.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2023: Ethnic violence breaks out between the Meitei and the Kuki Zo people in the state of Manipur.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Blessed Emilia Bicchieri

Christian feast day: Juvenal of Narni

Christian feast day: Marie-Léonie Paradis

Christian feast day: May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Moura and Timothy (Catholic and Coptic Church)

Christian feast day: Philip and James the Lesser

Christian feast day: Pope Alexander I

Christian feast day: Sarah the Martyr (Coptic Church)

Christian feast day: The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland

Christian feast day: Theodosius of Kiev (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church)

Constitution Day (Poland)

Events

2023Ethnic violence breaks out between the Meitei and the Kuki Zo people in the state of Manipur.

2023Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.

2021Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured after an elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses.

2016Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.

2015Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

2007The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".

2006Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.

2001The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.

2000The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

1999Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War.

1999The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produce

1987A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.

1986Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.

1979The Conservative Party wins the United Kingdom general election. The following day, Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female British Prime Minister.

1978The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (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.

1971Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989.

1968Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas.

1963The 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 new-found attention to the civil ri

1957Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

1953Two men are rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacramento River. Amateur photographer Virginia Schau photographs "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", the first and only winning sub

1952Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.

1952The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.

1951London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.

1951The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.

1948The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.

1947New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.

1945World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay, resulting in more than 7,000 deaths.

1942World 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.

1939The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

1928The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.

1921Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

1921West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.

1920A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

1913Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.

1901The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.

1855American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.

1849The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49.

1848The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.

1837The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.

1830The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.

Born on this day

2003Florian Wirtz, German footballer

2001Rachel Zegler, American actress and singer

1999Ella Langley, American singer-songwriter

1999Tom Hartley, English cricketer

1997Desiigner, American rapper

1997Dwayne Haskins, American football player (died 2022)

1996Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer

1996Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian-American basketball player

1996Mary Cain, American runner

1996Noah Munck, American actor

1995Anwar El Ghazi, Dutch footballer

1995Austin Meadows, American baseball player

1995Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player (died 2016)

1991Samuel Seo, South Korean musician

1990Brooks Koepka, American golfer

1990Harvey Guillén, American actor

1990James Pattinson, Australian cricketer

1989Jesse Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player

1989Katinka Hosszú, Hungarian swimmer

1988Ben Revere, American baseball player

1988Paddy Holohan, Irish mixed martial artist

1987Damla Sönmez, Turkish actress

1986Homer Bailey, American baseball player

1986Pom Klementieff, French actress

1985Ezequiel Lavezzi, Argentinian footballer

1985Robin Tonniau, Belgian politician

1983Joseph Addai, American football player

1983Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (died 2015)

1983Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer

1982Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-American football player

1981Father John Misty, American musician

1978Lawrence Tynes, American football player

1978Paul Banks, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1977Ben Olsen, American soccer player and coach

1977Eric Church, American country music singer-songwriter

1977Ryan Dempster, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster

1977Tyronn Lue, American basketball player and coach

1976Brad Scott, Australian footballer and coach

1976Chris Scott, Australian footballer and coach

1976Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player

Died on this day

2024Dick Rutan, American military aviator and officer (born 1938)

2021Lloyd Price, American R&B vocalist (born 1933)

2020Dave Greenfield, English rock keyboardist (born 1949)

2020Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (born 1926)

2017Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer and model (born 1942)

2016Ian Deans, Canadian politician (born 1937)

2016Jadranka Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter (born 1950)

2015Danny Jones, Welsh rugby player (born 1986)

2015Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian director and screenwriter (born 1926)

2015Warren Smith, American golfer and coach (born 1915)

2014Francisco Icaza, Mexican painter (born 1930)

2014Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1930)

2014Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (born 1934)

2013Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (born 1958)

2013Branko Vukelić, Croatian politician, 11th Minister of Defence for Croatia (born 1958)

2013Cedric Brooks, Jamaican-American saxophonist and flute player (born 1943)

2013Curtis Rouse, American football player (born 1960)

2013David Morris Kern, American pharmacist, co-invented Orajel (born 1909)

2013Herbert Blau, American engineer and academic (born 1926)

2013Joe Astroth, American baseball player (born 1922)

2013Keith Carter, American swimmer and soldier (born 1924)

2012Felix Werder, German-Australian composer, conductor, and critic (born 1922)

2012Jorge Illueca, Panamanian politician, 30th President of Panama (born 1918)

2011Jackie Cooper, American actor, television director, producer and executive (born 1922)

2011Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer and manager (born 1936)

2011Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor and director (born 1927)

2010Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (born 1923)

2010Peter O'Donnell, English soldier and author (born 1920)

2010Roy Carrier, American accordion player (born 1947)

2009Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar, Indian author and critic (born 1931)

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