05-03-2006, 05:23 AM
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May 3rd
1469 ~ Birthday of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1616 ~ Death of William Shakespeare Playwright & Poet.
1810 ~ Lord Byron swam the Hellespont.
1844 ~ Birthday of Richard D'Oyly Carte, English 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.
1945 ~ Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
1946 ~ The International Military Tribunal for the Far East began in Tokyo against Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1991 ~ The last episode of the soap opera “Dallas” aired.
2005 ~ The first democratically elected government in the history of Iraq was sworn in.
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