Today in Military History:
May 3
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1747 | First Battle of Cape Finisterre. British fleet soundly defeated French. |
| | 1809 | Battle of Ebersberg. Massena's corps stormed the bridge and castle driving Austrians out of city. |
| | 1945 | British take Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese. |
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