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

  • 1791 –
    The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • 1802 –
    Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
  • 1808 –
    Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
  • 1849 –
    The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
  • 1867 –
    The Hudson’s Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
  • 1913 –
    Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
  • 1915 –
    The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
  • 1920 –
    A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
  • 1936 –
    Joe DiMaggio, familiarly referred to as Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees.
  • 1937 –
    Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
  • 1951 –
    The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
  • 1952 –
    The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.
  • 1960 –
    The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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