May 3rd ....
1715 – "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, United Kingdom for almost 900 years).
1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city....
1837 – The University of Athens is founded.
1915 – The poem
In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.....
1616 – Death of William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (his death is commonly accepted to be on April 23, according to the Julian calendar)