05-03-2005, 05:34 AM
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May 3rd
1496 ~ Birthday of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author.
1616 ~ Death of William Shakespeare Playwright & Poet
1810 ~ Lord Byron swam the Hellespont.
1844 ~ Birthday of Richard D'Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario.
1898 ~ Birthday of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel.
1937 ~ Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1946 ~ World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East began in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1982 ~ Falklands War: The Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile.
1991 ~ The last episode of the soap opera Dallas aired.
2000 ~ The sport of Geocaching began with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS were posted on Usenet.
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