About May 3

May 3, 2024 is the 124th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 271 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On May 3

  • 1481 –
    The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
  • 1830 –
    The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
  • 1837 –
    The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
  • 1849 –
    The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
  • 1867 –
    The Hudson’s Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
  • 1901 –
    The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • 1915 –
    The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
  • 1916 –
    The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
  • 1920 –
    A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
  • 1928 –
    Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
  • 1937 –
    Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
  • 1947 –
    New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • 1951 –
    London’s Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
  • 1952 –
    The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.
  • 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 newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
  • 1973 –
    The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
  • 1999 –
    The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 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 is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.
  • 2000 –
    The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
  • 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.
  • 2003 –
    New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.

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