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What Happened on May 3rd This Day in History

Year	Name
2016	Eighty-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.
2015	Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
2007	The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
2006	Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.
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.
2000	The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
1999	The 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 produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
1999	Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War.
1987	A 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.
1986	Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1979	Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election.
1978	The 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.
1971	Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989.
1968	Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas.
1963	The 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 rights movement.
1957	Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
1952	Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
1952	The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
1951	London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
1951	The 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.
1948	The 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.
1947	New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1945	World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
1942	World 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.
1939	The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
1928	The 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.
1921	Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
1921	West 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.
1920	A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1913	Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
1901	The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
1855	American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
1849	The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49.
1848	The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.
1837	The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
1830	The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
1815	Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1808	Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808	Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
1802	Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government.
1791	The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1715	A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy.
1616	Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war.
1568	Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort Caroline, a French force burns the San Mateo fort and massacres hundreds of Spaniards.
1491	Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1481	The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
752	Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.

Famous People Born on May 3

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Year	Name
1939	Jonathan Harvey, English composer and educator (d. 2012)
1928	Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001)
1905	Edmund Black, American hammer thrower (d. 1996)
1934	Henry Cooper, English boxer and sportscaster (d. 2011)
1536	Stephan Praetorius, German theologian (d. 1603)
1919	John Cullen Murphy, American soldier and illustrator (d. 2004)
1977	Ryan Dempster, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
1950	Mary Hopkin, Welsh singer-songwriter
1912	May Sarton, American poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1995)
1984	Jacqui Dunn, Australian artistic gymnast

Famous People Deaths On May 3

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Date	Name
1988	Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1908)
1524	Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent, English peer (b. 1481)
1839	Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
1935	Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
1270	Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
1998	Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
2017	Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer and model (b. 1942)
1996	Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist, composer, and educator (b. 1921)
2003	Suzy Parker, American model and actress (b. 1932)
1693	Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)