Reuters
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 3:
1951 - In Britain, the king and queen inaugurated the Festival of Britain on London's South Bank and opened the Festival Hall.
1968 - In Paris, students and police clashed violently at the start of a month of disturbances and strikes.
1971 - Walter Ulbricht retired as First Secretary of the East German communist party and was succeeded by Erich Honecker.
1998 - A body unearthed on a Berlin building site over 20 years earlier was finally confirmed by DNA tests as belonging to Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man.
2002 - At least 450 people drowned when the M.V. Salahuddin-2 ferry with about 500 on board sank in the Meghna river 170km (105.6 miles) south of Dhaka.
2004 - Former investment banker Frank Quattrone, famous for taking hot technology companies public, was found guilty of obstructing investigations into popular stock offerings of the 1990s.
2005 - Beijing lifted a ban on visits to Taiwan by Chinese tourists.
2006 - Earl Woods, who started his son Tiger on the path to golfing pre-eminence at a tender age and mentored him through his early career, died aged 74.
2007 - Three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears from beach resort in Portugal.
2015 - U.S. Distance Medley Relay team set new world record at the IAAF World Relays Championships.
2016 - Wildfires erupt in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
