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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1860 –Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1901 –The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
- 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.
- 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 issues surrounding its enforcement.
- 1936 –Joe DiMaggio, familiarly referred to as Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees.
- 1951 –London’s Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
- 1951 –The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
- 1952 –The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.
- 1960 –The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 1960 –The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City’s Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
- 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.
- 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.
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