Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 3
This is a list of selected May 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Mother's Day in Hungary, Lithuania, Mozambique, Portugal, Romania and Spain (2015) | refimprove section |
| 1808 – Finnish War: Sweden lost the fortress of Suomenlinna to Russia. | needs more footnotes |
| 1815 – Austrian troops led by Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza defeated the forces under King Joachim Murat of Naples at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive battle of the Neapolitan War. | no footnotes |
| 1837 – The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the oldest university in Southeast Europe, was founded. | refimprove section |
| 1921 – The island of Ireland was divided into two distinct territories: Northern and Southern Ireland. | refimprove section |
| 1947 – A new Constitution of Japan went into effect, providing for a parliamentary system of government, guaranteeing certain fundamental rights, and relegating the Japanese monarchy to a purely ceremonial role. | refimprove |
| 1951 – The Royal Festival Hall, the first post-war building to become listed Grade I, opened as the venue for the Festival of Britain. | refimprove section |
| 2000 – The sport of geocaching was born when the coordinates of a cache outside Portland, Oregon, US, were posted to a Usenet group. | globalize |
| 2007 – Three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared while on holiday with her family in Portugal, sparking "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". | too detailed |
| Élisabeth of France (b. 1764) | missing page numbers |
Eligible
- 1491 – Nkuwu Nzinga, ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo, was baptised as João I by Portuguese missionaries.
- 1791 – The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ratified the first codified national constitution in Europe.
- 1848 – The Benty Grange helmet, a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet similar to those in Beowulf, was discovered in Derbyshire, England.
- 1855 – A group of American mercenaries led by William Walker set sail from San Francisco to conquer Nicaragua.
- 1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first Indian feature-length film, was released.
- 1915 – The oldest Royal Air Force station in continuous operation, RAF Northolt, opened as home to No. 4 Reserve Aeroplane Squadron.
- 1915 – Canadian physician and lieutenant colonel John McCrae wrote "In Flanders Fields", considered one of the most notable poems written during the First World War.
- 1939 – Subhas Chandra Bose formed the All India Forward Bloc, a faction within the Indian National Congress, in opposition to Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence.
- 1942 – Second World War: Japanese forces began an invasion Tulagi and nearby islands in the British Solomon Islands, enabling them to threaten and intercept supply and communication routes between the United States and Australasia.
- 1963 – Police in Birmingham, Alabama, used high-pressure water hoses and dogs on civil rights protesters, bringing intense scrutiny upon racial segregation in the southern U.S.
- 1971 – Erich Honecker was elected First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
- 1999 – A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth, at 301 ± 20 mph (484 ± 32 km/h), in a tornado near Bridge Creek, Oklahoma.
- Born/died: Alexios II of Trebizond (d. 1330) | Henry Garnet (d. 1606) | William Shakespeare (d. 1616) | Elizabeth Bacon (d. 1621) | Catherine of St. Augustine (b. 1632) | Richard D'Oyly Carte (b. 1844) | Jacob Riis (b. 1849) | Red Ruffing (b. 1905) | Sugar Ray Robinson (b. 1921) | Len Shackleton (b. 1922) | Ron Hextall (b. 1964)
Notes
- 1979 United Kingdom general election is saved for May 4, the date of Margaret Thatcher officially becoming Prime Minister
May 3: World Press Freedom Day; Constitution Memorial Day in Japan (1947); Constitution Day in Poland (1791)
- 1481 – The largest of a series of earthquakes struck the island of Rhodes, causing an estimated 30,000 casualties.
- 1616 – The Treaty of Loudun was signed, ending a war that originally began as a power struggle for the French throne.
- 1920 – Russian Civil War: Relying on Red Army troops in neighboring Azerbaijan, the Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia.
- 1945 – Second World War: The German ocean liner Cap Arcona (pictured), afloat in the Bay of Lübeck with thousands of concentration camp survivors on board, was attacked and sunk by the Royal Air Force.
- 1960 – The Off-Broadway show The Fantasticks premiered, eventually becoming the world's longest-running musical, with 17,162 performances across 42 years.
- Béla IV of Hungary (d. 1270)
- Eppa Rixey (b. 1891)
- John O'Connor (d. 2000)