About May 3
May 3, 2025 is the 123rd 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.
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Taurus is the sun 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.
What Happened On May 3
- 1491 –Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
- 1808 –Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
- 1815 –Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
- 1830 –The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
- 1849 –The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
- 1913 –Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
- 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.
- 1936 –Joe DiMaggio, familiarly referred to as Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees.
- 1939 –The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
- 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.
- 1951 –London’s Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
- 1952 –Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
- 1952 –The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.
- 1957 –Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
- 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.
- 2003 –New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
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