The 3rd o Mey is the 123rd day o the year (124t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 242 days ti come.
1791 : Passin o Poland 's constitution
2003 : Old Man o the Mountain a week afore its collapse
2014 : Scene in the Black Forest Naitional Pairk
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 .
Golda Meir
Pete Seeger
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
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
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