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

• 1849 –
  The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
• 1916 –
  The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
• 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.
• 1928 –
  Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
• 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.
• 1957 –
  Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
• 1973 –
  The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world’s tallest building.
• 1978 –
  The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as “spam”) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
• 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.
• 1999 –
  The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.

Who were born on May 3?

• 1860 –
  Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
• 1892 –
  George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1910 –
  Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer
• 1940 –
  David Koch, American businessman, politician
• 1940 –
  Konrad “Conny” Plank, German record producer and musician
• 1942 –
  C.L. Otter, American politician, governor of Idaho
• 1946 –
  Greg Gumbel, American broadcaster
• 1961 –
  David Vitter, American politician
• 1970 –
  Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer
• 1975 –
  Dulé Hill, American actor

Who died on May 3?

• 1270 –
  King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
• 1679 –
  James Sharp, Scottish archbishop (b. 1613)
• 1704 –
  Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer (b. 1644)
• 1750 –
  John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
• 1910 –
  Howard Taylor Ricketts, American bacteriologist. (b. 1871)
• 1972 –
  Leslie Harvey, Scottish guitar player for Stone the Crows (b. 1944)
• 1992 –
  George Murphy, American dancer, actor and politician (b. 1902)
• 1997 –
  Sébastien Enjolras, French racing driver (b. 1976)
• 2007 –
  Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
• 2007 –
  Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)