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General Strike began at midnight, the first in British history
May 3, 1926
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IRA troops under Tom Maguire fight off 600 English troops in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo
May 3, 1921
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Patrick Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh executed by firing squad in Kilmainham jail
May 3, 1916
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Walter Macken, novelist, born in Galway
May 3, 1915
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Bing Crosby, descendant of Irish immigrants, is born in Tacoma, Washington
May 3, 1903
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Welsh Thomas Coke, a Methodist cleric and missionary, died
May 3, 1814
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The Irish Academy, later to become the Royal Irish Academy, meets for the first time
May 3, 1785
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Sir Wentworth Harman, MP for Lanesborough, dies
May 3, 1714
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John Knox began the Reformation in Scotland.
May 3, 1557