May 03

General Strike began at midnight, the first in British history

May 3, 1926

IRA troops under Tom Maguire fight off 600 English troops in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo

May 3, 1921

Patrick Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh executed by firing squad in Kilmainham jail

May 3, 1916

Walter Macken, novelist, born in Galway

May 3, 1915

Bing Crosby, descendant of Irish immigrants, is born in Tacoma, Washington

May 3, 1903

Welsh Thomas Coke, a Methodist cleric and missionary, died

May 3, 1814

The Irish Academy, later to become the Royal Irish Academy, meets for the first time

May 3, 1785

Sir Wentworth Harman, MP for Lanesborough, dies

May 3, 1714

John Knox began the Reformation in Scotland.

May 3, 1557