On this day in History - May 03

0612 - Constantine III, was born (d. 0641). Byzantine Emperor.
1160 - Peter Lombard, dies. Scholar and bishop.
1404 - Morreu João das Regras.
1415 - Cecily Neville, was born (d. 1495). Mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England.

1455 - Joao II, the perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95) was born.
1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, was bornin Florence (d. 1527). Italian historian, philosopher and political author (The Prince).
1494 - Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica.
1519 - Hernan Cortes funda a cidade de Vila Rica de Veracruz, no México.
1616 - William Shakespeare dies (b. 1564). English playwright, romantic writer, poet.
1622 - Pedro Páez, dies (b. 1564). Jesuit missionary to Ethiopia.
1662 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann,was born (d. 1736). Master builder.
1678 - Archbishop James Sharp, dies assassinated (b. 1613).

1748 - Nace el revolucionario Emmanuel Joseph Sièyes.
1758 - Pope Benedict XIV dies (b. 1675)
1761 - August von Kotzebue, was born (d. 1819). German dramatist.
1764 - Morre Francesco Algarotti, filósofo, crítico e escritor de ópera italiano.
1783 - Nasce José Maria de la Riva Aguero, político peruano, presidente da República entre 1823 e 1827.
1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet.
1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont.
1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway was born (d. 1872).
1835 - Alfred Austin, was born (d. 1913). English poet.
1844 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, was born (d. 1901). English theatrical impresario.
1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, dies (b. 1803). French composer.
1859 - Andy Adams,was born (d. 1935). Author.

1860 - Nace en San Vicente (Provincia de Buenos Aires) el destacado médico, filósofo y profesor Alejandro Korn. Falleció en La Plata (Provincia de Buenos Aires) el 9 de octubre de 1936. Su lugar de nacimiento (San Vicente) se denomina actualmente "Alejandro Korn".
1860 - John Scott Haldane, was born (d. 1936). Scottish physiologist.
1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1861- Emmett Dalton, was born (d. 1937). Outlaw
1867 - J.T. Hearne, was born (d. 1944). English cricket playe.
1867- The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1874 - François Coty, was born (d. 1934). French perfume manufacture.

1881 - Morte de António José de Ávila. Marquês e duque de Ávila e Bolama - Portugal.

1888 - Beulah Bondi, was born (d. 1981). Actress
1892 - Nasce George Paget Thomson, físico britânico, Premio Nobel da Física em 1937.
1893 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, was born (d. 1975). Georgian writer and public benefactor
1895 - Cornelius Van Til, was born (d. 1987). Philosopher and Christian apologist.
1896 - Nasceu a escritora inglesa Dodie Smith.
1898 - Golda Meir, was born in Kiev (d. 1978). Prime Minister of Israel [1969-1974]
1903 - Bing Crosby, was born (d. 14 Out 1977). American singer.
1905 - Sebastian Shaw, was born (d. 1994). Actor.
1906 - Anna E. Roosevelt, was born (d. 1975). Radio personality.
1906 - Mary Astor, was born (d. 1987). Actress.
1911 - Criação da Guarda Nacional Republicana, primeiro corpo policial extensivo a todo o país, que substitui as Guardas Republicanas de Lisboa e do Porto. Será a Guarda Pretoriana do regime republicano.
1912 - The first victims of the RMS Titanic are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1913 - William Inge, was born (d. 1973). Playwright.
1915 - Stu Hart, was born (d. 2003). Professional wrestler and wrestling trainer.

1916 - Fundação da Academia Brasileira de Ciências.
1919 - Pete Seeger, was born. American folk singer.
1919 - Betty Comden, was born. Lyricist.
1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, was born (d. 12 Apr 1989). American boxer. International Boxing Hall of Fame middleweight champ: only boxer to win world title at one weight five times.
1921 - Joe Ames, was born. Singer.
1923 - Ralph Hall, was born. American politician.

1926 - La Federación Boliviana de Fútbol es aceptada como miembro de FIFA, en el Congreso de Roma
1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first women to head the United States Mint.
1933 - James Brown, was born. Singer.
1933 - Steven Weinberg, was born. American phisicist. Winner of the Nobel prize in physics for his work on elementary particle theory.
1934 - Georges Moustaki was born in Alexandria, Al Iskandarïyah, Egypt. Composer, singer.
1936 - Em França, a Frente Popular venceu as eleições.
1937 - Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1937- Frankie Valli, was born. American pop singer.

1937 - Nascimento de Nélida Piñon. Escritora brasileira. Presidente da Academia Brasileira de Letras.
1938 - Agnaldo Rayol, was born. Brazilien singer.
1942 - Thorvald Stauning, dies (b. 1873). Prime Minister of Denmark
1944 - Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.
1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1946 - Silvino Francisco, was born. South African snooker player
1947 - Doug Henning, was born (d. 2000). Magician.
1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.

1949 - Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo dies (b. 11 May 1871). Spanish painter.
1950 - Howard Ashman, was born (d. 1991). Lyricist.
1950 - Mary Hopkin, was born. Singer.
1951 - Christopher Cross, was born. Musician.
1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
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 S. Truman.
1951 - Massimo Ranieri [Giovanni Caloni] was born in Naples, Italy. Pop singer. Winner of Sanremo Festival (1988) for his hit song "Perdere L'amore". Considered by many to be one of the greatest Italian pop music singers of all time.

1951 - Muere en Buenos Aires el escritor, poeta y guionista de cine Homero Manzi, sobresaliente autor de letras de tango, como Discepolín" y "Sur". Fue coautor del guión de la película "La guerra gaucha". Nació en Añatuya (Provincia de Santiago del Estero) el 1º de noviembre de 1907.
1952 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
1952 - Allan Wells, was born. British athlete, Jennifer Broadbridge
1955 - David Hookes, was born (d. 2004). Cricketer.
1956 - The judo World Championships are first held.
1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California.
1958 - Frank [Rowbotham] Foster, dies (b. 31 Jan 1889). Warwickshire all-round cricketer .
1959 - Ben Elton, was born. British comedian and author
1959 - Uma Bharati, was born. First woman chief minister of Madhya Pradesh
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.

1960 - Ho Chong assume a presidencia da Coreia do Sul.
1962 - Anders Graneheim, was born. Swedish bodybuilder.

1962 - Fundación del Club Real Santa Cruz, de Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
1966 - Darren Morgan, was born. Welsh snooker player.
1968 - A Braniff International Electra crashes during a storm near Dawson, Texas killing 85.
1969 - Daryl F. Mallett, was born. Author and actor.

1969 - Dustin Hoffman / Anne Byrne wed.
1970 - Davide Bianchini, was born. Web designer.
1971 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
1971 - Erich Honecker foi eleito secretário-geral do PSU, na Alemanha, dez anos após supervisionar a construção do Muro de Berlim.

1973 - Nascimento de Michel Reiziger. Jogador holandês de futebol.
1975 - Maksim Mrvica, was born. Pianist.
1982- Falklands War: The Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile.
1986 - In Bergen, Norway, Sandra Kim wins the thirty-first Eurovision Song Contest for Belgium singing "J'aime la vie" (I love life).
1987 - Dalida, dies (b. 1933). French singer.
1987 - Davey Allison wins his first NASCAR Winston Cup race at the Winston 500 in Talladega, Alabama.
1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, dies. Soviet mathematician
1988 - Milt Caniff, dies (b. 1907). Cartoonist.
1989 - Christine Jorgensen, dies (b. 1926). Transsexual.
1990 - Morreu o patriarca ortodoxo russo Pinem.

1990 - József Antall assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Hungria
1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
1991 - The last episode of the soap opera Dallas aired.
1991 - Narita Bryan, was born (d. 1998). Japanese racehorse.
1991 - Jerzy Kosinski, dies (b. 1933). Writer.
1991 - O bioquímico mexicano Francisco Bolivar Zapata recebe o Prêmio Príncipe de Astúrias de Investigação Científica e Técnica
1992 - Sidney Reso, dies. Exxon executive
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, dies (b. 1899). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1994 - 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins.
1997 - In Dublin, Ireland, Katrina & the Waves win the forty-second Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Love Shine a Light".

1997 - Narciso Yepes, dies (b. 14 Nov 1927). The great master of spanish guitar.

1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produces 66 tornadoes. The Oklahoma City tornado kills 38 people and injures 665, and causes $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70. A little under a year later on January 14, 2000 it closed at its highest level to date at 11,722.98.
2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2000 - The sport of Geocaching begins with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS are posted on Usenet.

2001 Morte do jornalista português Afonso [Emílio] Praça (n. 13 Jan 1939). Primeiro presidente da Direcção do Sindicato dos Jornalistas após o 25 de Abril
2002 - Barbara Castle,dies (b. 1910). Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician.
2003 - New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain mysteriously falls from its perch after 10,000 years
2003 - Funny Cide becomes the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.
2003 - Suzy Parker, dies (b. 1932). American actress.

2003 - O Brugges empata (1 x 1) com o Saint Truiden e conquista o título do Campeonato Belga em futebol.

2004 - Exército dos Estados Unidos pune 13 militares acusados de tortura na prisão de Abu Gharib - Iraque
2004 - Morre Lygia Pape, artista plástica brasileira
Dia Mundial da Liberdade de Imprensa (ONU-1993),
World Press Freedom Day
2005 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith's soundtrack is released
Constitution Day in Poland and Japan
Israel - Yom Ha'atzma'ut (Israeli Independence Day) for 2006: (the observed date of this national holiday is determined by the Jewish Calendar).