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Events on May 3

• 1494 On his second voyage, Christopher Columbus became the first European to discover the Caribbean island of Jamaica, which was named Santiago by the Spanish.
• 1909 With the Motor Vehicle Traffic Act, a driving licence valid throughout Germany was made mandatory.
• 1933 Following the ban on the Workers' Welfare Association, the National Socialist People's Welfare was elevated within the German Reich to the status of an NSDAP party organization.
• 1945 Hamburg's military commander Alwin Wolz signed the terms for the surrender of the city at the Villa Möllering near Lüneburg, following authorization by Karl Dönitz. The city was subsequently occupied without resistance by British armed forces.
• 1953 German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle first went on air on shortwave from Cologne.
• 1956 The first Judo World Championships were held in Tokyo.
• 1971 Under pressure from the Soviet Union, Walter Ulbricht stepped down as First Secretary of the SED Central Committee in the GDR “for health reasons”; his successor was Erich Honecker.
• 1978 By sending 400 advertising emails, DEC employee Gary Thuerk became the first spammer in computer history.
• 1979 Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum, the most expensive German feature film of the 1970s, based on the novel of the same name by Günter Grass and starring David Bennent in the lead role, premiered.
• 1980 Anti-nuclear power activists occupied the site of the final repository near Gorleben and founded the Republic of Free Wendland as a symbolic act.
• 1993 Following a proven false statement in connection with the Barschel affair, SPD politician Björn Engholm resigned his positions as SPD chairman, Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein and the SPD's candidate for chancellor in the 1994 Bundestag election.
• 2000 In Portland (Oregon), Dave Ulmer launched the GPS treasure hunt Geocaching by hiding the first container.

Born on May 3

• 1901 Gino Cervi, Italian actor
• 1902 Alfred Kastler, French physicist
• 1903 Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
• 1921 Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer
• 1951 Christopher Cross, American singer
• 1960 May Ayim, German poet, educator and activist of the Afro-German movement
• 1960 Margarita Broich, German actress
• 1970 Bobby Cannavale, American actor
• 1982 Rebecca Hall, British actress
• 2001 Rachel Zegler, American web video producer, singer and actress.

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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