May 3

• May 3, 1382
  Battle of Beverhoutsveld occurs between County of Flanders and Ghent rebels near Brugge
• May 3, 1481
  Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II dies at age 60; Bayezid II succeeds
• May 3, 1493
  Pope Alexander VI issues bull Inter caetera, which grants to the Crowns of Castile and Aragon lands one hundred leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands
• May 3, 1512
  Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen (18th ecumenical council) in Rome
• May 3, 1515
  Portugese fleet occupies Ormus in Persian Gulf
• May 3, 1791
  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth adopt Constitution of May 3, Europe's first and the world's second modern codified national constitution, designed to redress long-standing political defects and traditional system of Golden Liberty
• May 3, 1845
  Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Guangzhou, China
• May 3, 1861
  United States President Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen
• May 3, 1906
  British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from the Ottoman Porte transfering administration of Sinai to the Egyptian government
• May 3, 1947
  Japan adopts a new constitution and forms a constitutional democracy
• May 3, 1952
  The first airplane lands at the geographic North Pole
• May 3, 1973
  Chicago's Willis Tower tops out, becoming with the hight of 443 metres the world's tallest building
• May 3, 2008
  Tropical cyclone Nargis with 120 kmh winds and 4 meter waves, the Myanmar's deadliest natural disaster, passes through western Myanmar killing over 140,000 people and leaving 2-3 million residents homeless