May 3

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2025 Daily Holidays that fall on May 3, include:

• Astronomy Day - Spring - May 3, 2025 (Saturday from Mid-April to Mid-May)
• Bladder Cancer Awareness Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Bombshell's Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Childhood Stroke Awareness Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Free Comic Book Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Garden Meditation Day 
• International Doodle Dog Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• International Drone Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Join Hands Day: Youth and Adults Volunteering Together - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Kentucky Derby - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Learn to Ride a Bike Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• National Auctioneers Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• National Chocolate Custard Day 
• National Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday of May)
• National Fitness Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• National Herb Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May) and also April 26, 2025
• National Homebrew Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• National Lumpy Rug Day 
• National Play Outside Day - May 3, 2025 - (First Saturday in EVERY Month)
• National Public Radio Day 
• National Raspberry  Popover Day 
• National SAN Architect Day 
• National Scrapbooking Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• National Specially-abled Pets Day 
• National Textile Day
• National Two Different Colored Shoes Day 
• National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Paranormal Day 
• Pilates Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Spring Astronomy Day - May 3, 2025
• Start Seeing Monarchs Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• Sun Day 
• Wordsmith Day 
• World Beer Pong Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• World Naked Gardening Day - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May)
• World Press Freedom Day 

2025 Weekly Holidays that include May 3, are:

• Choose Privacy Week - May 1-7
• Go Diaper Free Week - April 27 - May 3, 2025 (7 Days Starting the Last Sunday in April)
• National Auctioneers Week - April 27 - May 3, 2025 (Observed the week ending with National Auctioneers Day)
• National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend - May 3-4, 2025
• National Historic Preservation Week - April 27 - May 3, 2025
• National Physical Education and Sports Week - May 1-7 (First Week in May)
• National Raisin Week - May 1-7, 2025 (First Week in May)
• Preservation Week - April 27 - May 3, 2025
• Stewardship Week - April 26 - May 4, 2025 (Last Sunday in April to First Sunday in May)
• World Dystonia Awareness Week - May 3-11

2025 Monthly Holidays that include May 3, are:

There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our May Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of May.

NOTE:

1. A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
2. If a date is a movable holiday, that is different every year, I'll include the year as well as the date rule above. Otherwise, the holiday falls on the same date each year.

World Festivals and Events
(Date Order)

• Kentucky Derby - May 3, 2025 (First Saturday in May) at Churchill Downs Racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for May 3 is Taurus.

Birth Flower of the Month

The Birth Flower(s) for the Month for May are:

• The Lily of the Valley - Humility, Chastity and Sweetness - signifies a return to happiness
• Hawthorn

Birthstone

The Birthstone(s) for May is the Emerald which is a symbol of rebirth and is believed to grant the owner foresight, good fortune, and youth.

Famous Birthdays

• 1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian politician, writer, historian and philosopher (d. 1527)
• 1879 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman who co-founded Quantas Airlines (d. 1950)
• 1903 - Bing Crosby, American singer (White Christmas), and actor (Going My Way)
• 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (middle/welterweight) (d. 1989)
• 1933 - James Brown, American soul singer who was known as the Godfather of Soul, songwriter, producer, actor (I Got You I Feel Good and I Got the Feeling) (d. 2006)
• 1934 - Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
• 1946 - Greg Gumbel, American sportscaster (CBS TV)
• 1951 - Christopher Cross, American singer, songwriter (Sailing)
• 1975 - Christina Hendricks, American actress (Mad Men)

Famous Deaths

• 1940 - Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave, and first African/American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
• 1992 - George Murphy - American actor and politician (b. 1902)
• 2011 - Jackie Cooper, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1922)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1986 - Annette Funicello, actress and singer, weds horse breeder and trainer Glen Holt
• 1991 - Andy Williams, singer weds Debbie Hass
• 2003 - Matt LeBlanc, actor (Friends), weds Melissa McKnight, model

Quote of the Day

World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO's General Conference. Since then, 3 May, the anniversary of the Declaration of Windhoek is celebrated worldwide as World Press Freedom Day. It is an opportunity to:

• Celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom;
• Assess the state of press freedom throughout the world;
• Defend the media from attacks on their independence;
• Pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

Info above from the United Nations website.

Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day 
or a Recipe of the Day

There are lots of Healthy Lunch Ideas available to us if we take the time to look. The typical lunch ideas of a huge sandwich, chips, cookies, and a fruit is outdated, as well as not being the healthiest choice! Too many processed carbs, fat, and additives.

Find some great Healthy Lunch Ideas and tips from Kerry at Healthy Diet Habits!

This Day in History

• 1481 - The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes (in Greece in the Aegean Sea), and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. 
• 1494 - Jamaica was discovered by Christopher Columbus and named St Iago
  
• 1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city
• 1851 - Most of the city of San Francisco, CA is destroyed by fire, and 30 die
• 1901 - The Great Fire of 1901 occurs in Jacksonville, Florida and destroys 1,700 buildings
• 1921 - West Virginia imposes the 1st State Sales Tax
• 1937 - Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone with the Wind wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• 1951 - The Festival of Britain opens
• 1952 - The 1st landing of an airplane at the North Pole
• 1960 - The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1971 - The Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters during a 3 day period
• 1973 - Chicago's Sears Tower, at 1,451 feet and 108 stories, becomes the world's tallest building
• 1982 - President Ronald Reagan begins a 5 minute weekly radio broadcast
• 1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek, a statement of Press Freedom principles is signed
• 1999 - During the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, Oklahoma City is devastated by a F5 tornado, killing 45 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage
• 2001 - The U.S. loses its seat on the United National Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947
• 2003 - Old Man of the Mountain, in New Hampshire collapses
• 2016 - A wildfire destroyed approx. 2,400 homes and buildings in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada where 88,000 people were evacuated from their homes

This Day in Music

• 1975 - He Don't Love You by Tony Orland and Dawn hits #1
• 1975 - Chicago's Album, Chicago VIII hits #1
• 1976 - Paul McCartney and his new band, Wings, open their first tour as the Wings Over America Tour 
• 1980 - Against the Wind, by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, top the US album chart and stay on top for six weeks
• 1986 - Addicted to Love, by Robert Palmer hits #1 on the US singles chart
• 2000 - The Offspring's album Smash from 1994 is certified platinum for the sixth time
• 2010 - I Gotta Feelin, by the Black-Eyed Peas becomes the best-selling digital song of all time.

Above, is Robert Palmer's, 'Addicted to Love' single which went to No. 1 on the U.S. album chart today, on May 3rd, 1986.

This Day in Sports

• 1936 - New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio makes his major league debut and gets 3 hits in his first game
• 1951 - Gil McDougald ties the major league record with 6 RBI's in 1 inning
• 1952 - The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time
• 1979 - Bobby Bonds hits his 300th Home Run
• 1980 - Willie McCovey, Giants 1st baseman hits his 521st and final Home Run
• 1986 - New York Yankee Don Mattingly hits 3 sacrifice flies in a game (6th to do this)
• 2000 - The sport of geocaching begins! The first cashe is placed and the corrdinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!