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The original of the Constitution of the State of Japan
Suomenlinna in 2005
Subhas Chandra Bose
Battle of Tolentino
Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza
Aerial view of RAF Northolt
João I of Kongo
Erich Honecker
Cap Arcona shortly after being attacked
Scene from Raja Harishchandra
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Mother's Day in Hungary, Lithuania, Mozambique, Portugal, Romania and Spain (2015)
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1808 –
Finnish War : Sweden lost the fortress of
Suomenlinna to Russia.
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1815 – Austrian troops led by
Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza defeated the forces under
King
Joachim Murat of
Naples at the
Battle of Tolentino , the decisive battle of the
Neapolitan War .
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1837 – The
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , the oldest university in Southeast Europe, was founded.
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1951 – The
Royal Festival Hall , the first post-war building to become
listed Grade I , opened as the venue for the
Festival of Britain .
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2000 – The sport of
geocaching was born when the
coordinates of a cache outside
Portland, Oregon , US, were posted to a
Usenet group.
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2007 – Three-year-old Madeleine McCann
disappeared while on holiday with her family in Portugal, sparking "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
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1915 – Canadian physician and lieutenant colonel
John McCrae wrote "
In Flanders Fields ", considered one of the most notable
poems written during the First World War .
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2021 – Being appointed by the
Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw as the Union Minister of Human Rights for the
National Unity Government of Myanmar ,
Aung Myo Min became the
country 's first openly
LGBT minister.
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1491 – Nkuwu Nzinga, the ruler of the
Kingdom of Kongo , was baptised as
João I by Portuguese missionaries.
1616 – The
Treaty of Loudun was signed, ending a war that originally began as a power struggle for the French throne.
1791 – The
Great Sejm of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ratified
the first codified national constitution in Europe .
1845 – A long-running feud between two towns in
Wisconsin came to a head when a
schooner
crashed into a bridge ; they later merged to form the city of
Milwaukee .
1855 – A group of American
mercenaries led by
William Walker set sail from San Francisco to
conquer Nicaragua .
1913 –
Raja Harishchandra , the first
Indian feature-length film , was released.
1915 – The oldest
Royal Air Force station in continuous operation,
RAF Northolt , opened as home to No. 4 Reserve Aeroplane Squadron.
1920 –
Russian Civil War : Relying on
Red Army troops in neighboring
Azerbaijan , the
Bolsheviks
attempted to stage a coup d'etat in
Georgia .
1921 – Under the British
Government of Ireland Act ,
Ireland was partitioned into two self-governing territories,
Northern and
Southern Ireland .
1942 –
Second World War : Japanese forces began
an invasion of
Tulagi and nearby islands in the
British Solomon Islands , enabling them to threaten and intercept supply and communication routes between the United States and Australasia.
1945 –
Second World War : The German ocean liner
Cap Arcona , afloat in the
Bay of Lübeck with thousands of
concentration camp survivors on board, was attacked and sunk by the
Royal Air Force .
1947 – A new
Constitution of Japan went into effect, providing for a
parliamentary
system of government , guaranteeing certain
fundamental rights , and relegating the
Japanese monarchy to a purely ceremonial role.
1960 – The
Off-Broadway show
The Fantasticks premiered, eventually becoming the world's longest-running musical, with 17,162 performances across 42 years.
1963 – Police in
Birmingham, Alabama ,
used high-pressure water hoses and dogs against
civil-rights protesters , bringing scrutiny on
racial segregation in the southern United States .
1971 –
Erich Honecker became First Secretary of the
Socialist Unity Party of Germany , the governing party of
East Germany .
2007 – Three-year-old British girl
Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in
Praia da Luz , Portugal; she has never been found.
2021 – Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured after an elevated section of the
Mexico City Metro
collapses .
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Henry Garnet |d|1606|
William Shakespeare |d|1616|
Catherine of St. Augustine |b|1632|
Richard D'Oyly Carte |b|1844|
Eppa Rixey |b|1891|
Red Ruffing |b|1905|
Sugar Ray Robinson |b|1921|
Len Shackleton |b|1922|
Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil |d|1971|
John O'Connor |d|2000
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May 3 :
World Press Freedom Day ;
Constitution Memorial Day in Japan (
1947 );
Constitution Day in Poland (
1791 )
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1481 –
The largest of a series of earthquakes struck the island of
Rhodes , causing an estimated 30,000 casualties.
1848 – The
Benty Grange helmet (pictured) , a boar-crested
Anglo-Saxon helmet similar to those mentioned in the contemporary epic poem
Beowulf , was discovered in
Derbyshire , England.
1939 –
Subhas Chandra Bose formed the
All India Forward Bloc , a faction within the
Indian National Congress , in opposition to
Gandhi 's tactics of
nonviolence .
1999 – A
Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth, at 135 m/s (302 mph; 486 km/h), in
a tornado near
Bridge Creek, Oklahoma .