- 126th Day of 2015 239 Remaining
- Summer Begins in 46 Days
- Sunrise:6:07
- Sunset:8:05
- 13 Hours 58 Minutes
- Moon Rise:10:41pm
- Moon Set:8:12am
- Phase:93%
- Full Moon May 3 @ 8:44pm
Full Flower Moon In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.
- Tides
- High:12:17am/2;04pm
- Low:7:06am/6:57pm
- Holidays
- National Nurses Day
- National School Nurse Day
- Bike To School Day
- Great American Grump Out
- National Beverage Day
- National Crepe Suzette Day
- National Day To Prevent Teen Pregnancy
- National Tourist Appreciation Day
- No Homework Day
- Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day
- International No Diet Day
- Hidirellez Festival-Turkey
- Djurdjevdan-Serbia
- On This Day
- 1527 --- German troops began sacking Rome, bringing about the end of the Renaissance.
- 1775 --- In a candid report to William Legge, 2nd earl of Dartmouth and the British secretary of state for the colonies. New Jersey Royal Governor William Franklin, writes that the violence at Lexington and Concord greatly diminishes the chances of reconciliation between Britain and her North American colonies.
- 1833 --- John Deere developed the first steel plow.
- 1835 --- The first issue of the ‘New York Herald’ newspaper was published by James Gordon Bennett.
- 1851 --- John Gorrie patented an ice making machine, the first U.S. patent for a mechanical refrigerator.
- 1876 --- Thomas Gainsborough’s painting Duchess of Devonshire is auctioned in London, England, nearly 100 years after it disappeared into obscurity. The portrait of Georgiana Spencer, an ancestor of Princess Diana, sold for 10,000 guineas, the highest price ever paid for a work of art up until this time.
- 1889 --- The world's fair, 'Exposition Universelle' opened in Paris, France. The main symbol and entrance was the newly constructed Eiffel Tower.
- 1915 --- Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox hit the first of his 714 major league home runs in a 4-3 loss to the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds.
- 1933 --- President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was just one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, which Roosevelt had signed the month before.
- 1937 --- The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crewmembers. Radio announcer Herb Morrison, who came to Lakehurst to record a routine voice-over for an NBC newsreel, immortalized the Hindenberg disaster in a famous on-the-scene description in which he emotionally declared, “Oh, the humanity!” The recording of Morrison’s commentary was immediately flown to New York, where it was aired as part of America’s first coast-to-coast radio news broadcast. Lighter-than-air passenger travel rapidly fell out of favor after the Hindenberg disaster, and no rigid airships survived World War II.
- 1940 --- John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. The book traces the fictional Joad family of Oklahoma as they lose their family farm and move to California in search of a better life.
- 1941 --- Joseph Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.
- 1941 --- Bob Hope gave his first USO show at California's March Field.
- 1942 --- During World War II, the Japanese seized control of the Philippines. About 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.
- 1954 --- In Oxford, England, 25-year-old medical student Roger Bannister cracks track and field’s most notorious barrier: the four-minute mile. Bannister, who was running for the Amateur Athletic Association against his alma mater, Oxford University, won the mile race with a time of 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds
- 1957 --- John Fitzgerald Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles in Courage".
- 1959 --- The Pablo Picasso painting of a Dutch girl was sold for $154,000 in London. It was the highest price paid (at the time) for a painting by a living artist.
- 1960 --- President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
- 1970 --- Hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation shut down as thousands of students join a nationwide campus protest. Governor Ronald Reagan closed down the entire California University and college system until May 11, which affected more than 280,000 students on 28 campuses.
- 1992 --- In an event steeped in symbolism, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reviews the Cold War in a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri—the site of Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech 46 years before. Gorbachev mixed praise for the end of the Cold War with some pointed criticisms of U.S. policy.
- 1994 --- In a ceremony presided over by England’s Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterand, a rail tunnel under the English Channel was officially opened, connecting Britain and the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age.The channel tunnel, or “Chunnel,” connects Folkstone, England, with Sangatte, France, 31 miles away. The Chunnel cut travel time between England and France to a swift 35 minutes and eventually between London and Paris to two-and-a-half hours.
- 1999 --- Britain's Labour Party won the largest number of seats in the first elections for Scotland's new Parliament and Wales' new Assembly.
- 2004 --- The final first-run episode of "Friends" aired on NBC.
- 2005 --- In Augusta, GA, a statue of James Brown was unveiled.
- Birthdays
- Willie Mays
- Mare Winningham
- Orson Welles
- Sigmund Freud
- Lori Singer
- Maximillien Robespierre
- Robert Peary
- Rudolph Valentino
- Bob Seger
- Tony Blair
- Toots Shor
