What are the important events that happened on May 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

May 3: Facts & Myths About This Day

May 3 is the 123^rd 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 20, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,746,230,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaicosatrigon’ day.

Taurus is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,516 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 3 Historical Events

• 1913 –
  Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
• 1942 –
  World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1973 –
  The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
• 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.
• 2000 –
  The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• 2002 –
  A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
• 2003 –
  New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.

Who were born on May 3?

• 612 –
  Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
• 1814 –
  Sir Adams George Archibald, Canadian Father of the Confederation (d. 1892)
• 1860 –
  John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
• 1933 –
  James Brown, American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
• 1942 –
  C.L. Otter, American politician, governor of Idaho
• 1953 –
  Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement)
• 1961 –
  Joe Murray, American cartoonist
• 1966 –
  Peter Abbay, American actor
• 1974 –
  Peter Everitt, Australian football player
• 1985 –
  Ezequiel Lavezzi, Argentinian footballer; plays for Italian team SSC Napoli

Who died on May 3?

• 1704 –
  Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer (b. 1644)
• 1758 –
  Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
• 1764 –
  Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712)
• 1779 –
  John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
• 1969 –
  Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897)
• 1996 –
  Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2002 –
  Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
• 2006 –
  Earl Woods, athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
• 2006 –
  Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
• 2009 –
  Ram Shewalkar, Indian Marathi writer (b. 1931)