May 3
People born on this day are Taurus.
- 1978
The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
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Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
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A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
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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.
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Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War.
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The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
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Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.
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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".
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Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
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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.
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Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured after an elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses.
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Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.
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2003Florian Wirtz, German footballer
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2001Rachel Zegler, American actress and singer
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1999Tom Hartley, English cricketer
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1999Ella Langley, American singer-songwriter
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1997Desiigner, American rapper
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1997Dwayne Haskins, American football player (died 2022)
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1996Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer
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1996Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian-American basketball player
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1996Noah Munck, American actor
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1995Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player (died 2016)
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1995Anwar El Ghazi, Dutch footballer
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1995Austin Meadows, American baseball player
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