Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). There are 242 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links Events 1494 - Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica 1791 - The Constitution of the third of May (first Polish constitution) is proclaimed by the Polish Sejm (Parliament) 1808 - The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia, during the Finnish War. 1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont 1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island 1912 - The first victims of the RMS Titanic are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins 1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay. 1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect 1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens 1952 - Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant Colonel 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 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech 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. 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed 2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Births 612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor 1469 - Nicolò Machiavelli, historian and political author († 1527) 1662 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, master builder († 1736) 1761 - August von Kotzebue, dramatist († 1819) 1861 - Emmett Dalton, outlaw († 1937) 1893 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor († 1975) 1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel 1903 - Bing Crosby, singer († 1977) 1906 - Mary Astor, actress († 1987) 1913 - William Inge, playwright († 1973) 1919 - Pete Seeger, singer 1919 - Betty Comden, lyricist 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer († 1989) 1921 - Joe Ames, singer 1928 - James Brown, singer 1937 - Frankie Valli, singer 1959 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author 1962 - Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder Deaths 1925 - Clément Ader - french engineer and inventor 1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark 1987 - Dalida, French singer 1989 - Christine Jorgensen, transsexual 1991 - Jerzy Kosinski, writer Holidays and observances World Press Freedom Day Invention of the True Cross, in Roman Catholicism Poland – The Constitution Day External links External list of US polititians who were born on May 3. See Also: May 2 - May 4 - April 3 - June 3 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.