About May 3

May 3, 2025 is the 123rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 290 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.
  • 1802 –
    Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
  • 1808 –
    Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
  • 1815 –
    Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
  • 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.
  • 1913 –
    Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
  • 1915 –
    The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
  • 1916 –
    The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
  • 1939 –
    The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
  • 1947 –
    New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • 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.
  • 1952 –
    The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.
  • 1957 –
    Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
  • 1973 –
    The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
  • 1978 –
    The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (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.
  • 1986 –
    Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
  • 1987 –
    A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
  • 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.
  • 2002 –
    A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.

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