WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/May 3

This is a list of selected May 3 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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Benty Grange helmet
The original of the Constitution of the State of Japan
Suomenlinna in 2005
Subhas Chandra Bose
Raja Harishchandra screenshot
Battle of Tolentino
Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza
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João I of Kongo

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Mother's Day in Hungary, Lithuania, Mozambique, Portugal, Romania and Spain (2015)	refimprove section
1808 – Finnish War: Sweden lost the fortress of Suomenlinna to Russia.	needs more footnotes
1815 – Austrian troops led by Frederick Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza defeated the forces under King Joachim Murat of Naples at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive battle of the Neapolitan War.	no footnotes
1837 – The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the oldest university in Southeast Europe, was founded.	refimprove section
1848 – The Benty Grange helmet, a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet similar to those in Beowulf, was discovered in Derbyshire, England.	TFA for April 26, 2019
1921 – The island of Ireland was divided into two distinct territories: Northern and Southern Ireland.	refimprove section
1947 – A new Constitution of Japan went into effect, providing for a parliamentary system of government, guaranteeing certain fundamental rights, and relegating the Japanese monarchy to a purely ceremonial role.	refimprove
1951 – The Royal Festival Hall, the first post-war building to become listed Grade I, opened as the venue for the Festival of Britain.	refimprove section
2000 – The sport of geocaching was born when the coordinates of a cache outside Portland, Oregon, US, were posted to a Usenet group.	globalize
Élisabeth of France (b. 1764)	missing page numbers

Eligible

1491 – Nkuwu Nzinga of the Kingdom of Kongo was baptised as João I by Portuguese missionaries.
1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first Indian feature-length film, was released.
1915 – The oldest continually operational Royal Air Force station, RAF Northolt, opened as the home to No. 4 Reserve Aeroplane Squadron.
1915 – Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote "In Flanders Fields", later considered one of the most notable poems written during the First World War.
1920 – Relying on the 11th Red Army operating in neighboring Azerbaijan, Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia.
1942 – Second World War: Japanese forces began invading Tulagi and nearby islands in the Solomon Islands, enabling them to threaten and interdict the supply and communication routes between the United States and Australia and New Zealand.
1945 – Second World War: The German ocean liner Cap Arcona, left to float defencelessly in the Bay of Lübeck with thousands of prisoners from various concentration camps on board, was attacked and sunk by the Royal Air Force.
1960 – The Off-Broadway show The Fantasticks made its premiere, eventually becoming the world's longest-running musical with 17,162 performances.
1963 – Police in Birmingham, Alabama, used high-pressure water hoses and dogs on civil rights protesters, bringing intense scrutiny upon racial segregation in the southern U.S.
2007 – Three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared while on holiday with her family in Portugal, sparking "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
Born/died: Alexios II of Trebizond (d. 1330) · Elizabeth Bacon (d. 1621) · Richard D'Oyly Carte (b. 1844) · Sugar Ray Robinson (b. 1921) · Len Shackleton (b. 1922)