May 3

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[edit] Events

• 1494 - Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
• 1945 - World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
• 2006 - Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.

[edit] Births

• 612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
• 1896 - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917)
• 1919 - Pete Seeger, American folk singer and left-wing activist

[edit] Deaths

• 1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)