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TODAY IN HISTORY

May 3

Sunday, May 3, 2026

Day 122 of 2026 | Week 18 | 237 days until Christmas 🎅

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2023

Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.

2
2023

Ethnic violence breaks out between the Meitei and the Kuki Zo people in the state of Manipur.

3
2021

Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured after an elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses.

4
2016

Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.

5
2015

Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

6
2007

The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".

7
2006

Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.

8
2001

The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.

9
2000

The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

10
1999

The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City 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 tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 484 ± 32 kilometres per hour (301 ± 20 mph). In meteorology, the term "May 3" is synonymous with the F5 tornado.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1989 World's Strongest Man)

born in Sheffield

1963 Jamie Reeves

British coal miner

1962 Anders Graneheim

Swedish bodybuilder

1961 David Vitter

American politician

1961 Joe Murray

American cartoonist (Rocko's Modern Life)

1961 Steve McClaren

English football manager

1960 Amy Steel

American actress (April Fool's Day)

1959 Ben Elton

English actor and comedian (Blackadder Back & Forth

1959 Carlos De León

Puerto Rican boxer (WBC cruiserweight champion (1980–82

1959 David Ball

English synth-pop keyboardist (Soft Cell - "Tainted Love")

1959 Uma Bharati

Indian politician

1958 Dean Garcia

British session and touring guitarist and bass player (Curve

1958 Kevin Kilner

American actor (Earth:Final Conflict)

1958 Sandi Toksvig

Danish-British comedian and radio presenter (The Great British Baking Show)

1957 Rod Langway

American NHL ice hockey defenseman

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