SomeFacts | May 3

On this day - May 3

752 — Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, ...

1481 — The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes ...

1491 — Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese ...

1568 — Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort ...

1616 — Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war.

1715 — A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and ...

1791 — The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in ...

1802 — Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress ...

1808 — Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are ...

1808 — Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.

1815 — Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by ...

1830 — The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the ...

1837 — The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.

1848 — The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered ...

1849 — The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German ...

1855 — American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco ...

1901 — The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.

1913 — Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, ...

1920 — A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

1921 — West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad ...

1921 — Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of ...

1928 — The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese ...

1939 — The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra ...

1942 — World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in ...

1945 — World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek ...

1947 — New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.

1948 — The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that ...

1951 — The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and ...

1951 — London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of ...

1952 — The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, ...

1952 — Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict ...

1953 — Two men are rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the ...

1957 — Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, ...

1963 — The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and ...

1968 — Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International ...

1971 — Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity ...

1978 — The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later ...

1979 — Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election. ...

1986 — Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a ...

1987 — A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, ...

1999 — Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in ...

1999 — The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an ...

2000 — The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed ...

2001 — The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights ...

2006 — Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi ...

2007 — The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in ...

2015 — Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event ...

2016 — Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in ...

2021 — Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured ...

2023 — Ethnic violence breaks out between the Meitei and the Kuki Zo ...

2023 — Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade ...