What day of the week was May 3, 1999?

The day of the week May 3rd, 1999 fell on was a Monday.

Joe Adcock the American baseball player and manager (b. 1927) died on this day in 1999. As did Steve Chiasson the Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1967) , Godfrey Evans the English cricketer (b. 1920) .

The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City the Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).