3 Mey

The 3rd o Mey is the 123rd day o the year (124t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 242 days ti come.

 Events 
 1494 - Christopher Columbus arrives in Jamaica.
 1791 - Poland's first constitution is introduced.
 1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporatit as a ceety.
 1808 - Activists in the Madrid uprisin against French rule are executit.
 1887 - Canadae's worst minin disaster occurs in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, killin 150 fowk.
 1901 - A major fire occurs in the ceety o Jacksonville, Florida.
 1916 - Leaders o Ireland's Pace Uprisin are executit.
 1920 - A Bolshevik coup fails in Georgie.
 1945 - Warld War II: The Ryal Air Force sinks the infirmary ships "Cap Arcona", "Thielbek" an "Deutschland".
 1947 - Japan's post-Warld War II constitution enters intae effect.
 1951 - George VI opens the Festival o Breetain.
 1960 - The Anne Frank Hoose in Amsterdam opens tae the public.
 1973 - Chicago's Sears Touer is completit.
 1979 - Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives win the Unitit Kinrick general election, stairtin 18 year o Conservative rule.
 1986 - A bomb splodes on an Air Sri Lanka passenger jet at Colombo Airport, killin 21 fowk.
 1986 - Sandra Kim wins the Eurovision Sang Contest for Belgium; Iceland maks its first appearance in the contest.
 1997 - Katrina and the Waves achieve the Unitit Kinrick's maist recent victory-tae date in the Eurovision Sang Contest wi the sang "Love Shine a Light".
 1999 - A tornado ootbreak in Oklahoma kills 46 fowk.
 2003 - The "Old Man o the Mountain" rock feature in New Hampshire collapses.
 2007 - Scots pairlamentary walin teuk place, wi the Scots Naitional Pairty unner Alex Salmond winnin 47 seats, ane mair nor Jack McConnell's Scots Labour Pairty.
 2007 - Breetish toddler Madeleine McCann disappears frae her parents' halyday apairtment in Praia da Luz, soothren Portugal.
 2008 - Cyclone Nargis sweeps across Burma.
 2012 - Scots local elections: Overaw seats - Scots Naitional Pairty 425, Scots Labour Pairty 394, Scots Conservative Pairty 115, Scots Leeberal Democrats 71
 2014 - The Black Forest Naitional Pairk in soothwastren Germany offeecially opens.
 2019 - The nummber o daiths in the Sooth Kivu Ebola ootbreak in the Democratic Republic o the Congo reaches 1,000.
 2019 - Pouerfu Cyclone Fani hits the state o Odisha on the east coast o Indie.

 Births 
 612 - Constantine III, Byzantine emperor (d. 641)
 1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian philosopher (d. 1527)
 1678 - Amaro Pargo, Spaingie corsair (d. 1747)
 1768 - Charles Tennant, Scots chemist an industrialist (d. 1838)
 1826 - Charles XV o Swaden (d. 1872)
 1835 - Edward Hargitt, Scots ornithologist (d. 1895)
 1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scots pheesiologist (d. 1936)
 1884 - Willie Reid, Scots fitbawer (d. 1966)
 1892 - George Paget Thomson, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1975)
 1898 - Golda Meir, Prime meenister o Israel (d. 1978)
 1902 - Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11t Yerl o Dundee, Scots nobleman, sodger an politeecian (d. 1983)
 1903 - Bing Crosby, American sangster an actor (d. 1984)
 1919 - Pete Seeger, American muisicker (d. 2014)
 1926 - Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
 1933 - James Brown, American sangster (d. 2006)
 1933 - Steven Weinberg, American theoretical pheesicist
 1934 - Georges Moustaki, French sangster (d. 2013)
 1945 - Jeffrey C. Hall, American geneticist an biologist, jynt 2017 Nobel laureate
 1950 - Mary Hopkin, Welsh sangster
 1952 - Allan Wells, Scots runner
 1958 - Sandi Toksvig, Dens-Breetish writer, comedienne an braidcaster
 1959 - Ben Elton, Inglis actor an writer
 1971 - Douglas Carswell, Inglis politeecian
 1972 - Stephen Barclay, Inglis politeecian
 1973 - Rea Garvey, Erse sangster, sangwriter an guitarist
 1977 - Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathemateecian (d. 2017)
 1983 - Laava, Brazilian sangster

 Daiths 
 1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
 1616 - William Shakespeare, Inglis makar an playwricht (b. 1564)
 1679 - James Sharp, Scots meenister an bishop (b. 1613)
 1758 - Pape Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
 1916 - Patrick Pearse, Erse poleetical activist an poet (b. 1879)
 1969 - Zakir Hussain, Preses o Indie (b. 1897)
 2014 - Gary Becker, American economist (b. 1930)

 Halidays 
 The 3rd o Mey is the feast day o the follaein saunts:
St. Philip
St. James the Lesser
St. Adalsindis
St. Alexander
St. Ansfrid
Sts. Timothy & Martha
St. Scannal
St. Diodorus
St. Gluvias
St. James the Less
St. Juvenal of Narni
St. Philip o Zell
 Constitution Day (Poland an Lithuanie)
 Constitution Memorial Day (Japan)
 Warld Press Freedom Day

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Category:Days o the year