May 03

May 03, 1926

General Strike began at midnight, the first in British history

May 03, 1921

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

May 03, 1916

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

May 03, 1915

Walter Macken, novelist, born in Galway

May 03, 1903

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

May 03, 1814

Welsh Thomas Coke, a Methodist cleric and missionary, died

May 03, 1785

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

May 03, 1714

Sir Wentworth Harman, MP for Lanesborough, dies

May 03, 1557

John Knox began the Reformation in Scotland.