This day in History - May 3

388 Historic Events for May 3
1904 Birth Charles "Red" Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
1905 Birth Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria
1905 Birth Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste)
1906 Birth Mary Astor, Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky)
1906 Event British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1907 Birth Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
1909 Event 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
1910 Death Artie Shaw, bandleader
1910 Birth Alceo Galliera, composer
1911 Birth John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter
1913 Birth William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
1913 Birth Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
1915 Birth Evencio Castellanos, composer
1916 Birth Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome)
1916 Birth Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1961- )
1916 Death P draic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad
1917 Birth James Penberthy, composer
1917 Death Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
1917 Event 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1919 Event Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 Birth Betty Comden, Bkln, song writer (Comden and Green-Bells are Ringing)
1919 Birth Pete Seeger, NYC, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
1919 Event America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1920 Birth Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], middle/welterweight boxer (champ)
1921 Birth Vasco dos Santos Gon‡alves, Portuguese leftist colonel