May 3 1382 Battle of Beverhoutsveldn near Bruges - Ghent town army beats drunken Bruges militia
May 3 1808 Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of
Sveaborg to Russia.
May 3 1808 Peninsular War: The
Madrid rebels who
rose up on
May 2 are executed near
Príncipe Pío hill.
May 3 1815 Neapolitan War:
Joachim Murat, King of
Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the
Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
May 3 1846 Mexican Army begins the Siege of Fort Texas near Brownsville, Texas, during the Mexican-American War
May 3 1863 The Second Battle of Fredericksburg occurs in Virginia, part of the Chancellorsville Campaign of the American Civil War
May 3 1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
May 3 1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
May 3 1926 US Marines land in Nicaragua (9 months after leaving), stay until 1933
May 3 1942 World War II:
Japanese naval troops
invade Tulagi Island in the
Solomon Islands during the first part of
Operation Mo that results in the
Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
May 3 1942 German Luftwaffe again bombs Exeter, destroying its town centre
May 3 1943 US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
May 3 1945 World War II: Sinking of the
prison ships Cap Arcona,
Thielbek and
Deutschland by the
Royal Air Force in
Lübeck Bay.
May 3 1945 1st Polish Armoured Division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West occupies Wilhelmshafen in Germany
May 3 1945 British troop join in Rangoon
May 3 1945
World War II: German ship "Cap Arcona" laden with prisoners sunk by
Royal Air Force in East Sea, 5,800 killed - one of largest maritime
losses of life
May 3 2002 A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
283 Battle of the Gulf of Naples : Roger of Lauria , admiral to King Peter III of Aragon , captures Charles of Salerno . 1288 Battle...
July 24 1132 Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. July 24 1148 Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus ...
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