May 3rd (1779) was a Monday. It's the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days left to the end of the year.
May 3rd Famous Deaths for 1779
» John Winthrop (educator) e.g John Winthrop, American mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1714)
May 3rd Holidays in History
» Christian Feast Day:
» Abhai (saint) or Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
» Antonia and Alexander
» Juvenal of Narni
» Saint Moura or Moura (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria known as Coptic Church)
» Philip the Apostle called Philip and Saint Apostle James the Lesser known as James the Less
» Pope Alexander I
» Sarah the Martyr (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria known as Coptic Church)
» Gloriosam Reginam named The Most Holy Virgin Mary Queen of Poland
» Theodosius of Kiev (Eastern Orthodox Church)
» May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Constitution Memorial Day (Japan)
» Public holidays in Poland called Constitution Day (Poland)
» Roodmas, or Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (Gallican Rite of the Catholic Church)