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, 29,103,840 minutes 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

• 1815 –
  Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
• 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.
• 1928 –
  Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
• 1939 –
  The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
• 1957 –
  Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2003 –
  New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.

Who were born on May 3?

• 1761 –
  August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
• 1764 –
  Elisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (d. 1794)
• 1857 –
  George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933)
• 1867 –
  J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
• 1888 –
  Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
• 1928 –
  Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1934 –
  Henry Cooper, English boxer (d. 2011)
• 1949 –
  Ron Wyden, American politician, senior senator of Oregon
• 1952 –
  Caitlin Clarke. American actress (d. 2004)
• 1971 –
  Josey Scott, American singer (Saliva)

Who died on May 3?

• 1779 –
  John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
• 1856 –
  Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b. 1803)
• 1921 –
  Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
• 1972 –
  Bruce Cabot, American film actor (b. 1904)
• 1972 –
  Leslie Harvey, Scottish guitar player for Stone the Crows (b. 1944)
• 2001 –
  Billy Higgins, American drummer (b. 1936)
• 2002 –
  Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
• 2004 –
  Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2007 –
  Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
• 2009 –
  Ram Shewalkar, Indian Marathi writer (b. 1931)