May 3
1469 Niccolo Machiavelli born
1469 Niccolo Machiavelli born
- American Revolution
- 1775 Dartmouth tells Martin to organize North Carolina Loyalists
- Automotive
- 1980 MADD founder’s daughter killed by drunk driver
- Civil War
- 1863 Confederates take Hazel Grove at Chancellorsville
- Cold War
- 1951 Congressional hearings on General MacArthur
- Crime
- 1992 Exxon executive is murdered
- 2007 British girl goes missing in Portugal
- Disaster
- 1962 Trains collide near Tokyo
- General Interest
- 1946 Japanese war crimes trial begins
- 1947 New Japanese constitution goes into effect
- 1952 Fletcher lands on the North Pole
- Hollywood
- 1948 U.S. Supreme Court decides Paramount antitrust case
- Literary
- 1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont
- Music
- 1933 James Brown is born
- Old West
- 1859 Cowboy author Andy Adams is born
- Presidential
- 1940 FDR addresses thousands of Democratic women
- 1961 JFK receives honorary degree
- Sports
- 1986 Shoemaker becomes oldest man to win Kentucky Derby
- Vietnam War
- 1965 173rd Airborne Brigade deploys to South Vietnam
- 1968 Paris is chosen as site for peace talks
- World War I
- 1915 Austro-German forces drive Russians out of the Carpathians
- World War II
- 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea begins