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05-03-2012, 05:29 AM
jseal
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May 3rd
1469
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Birthday of
Niccolò Machiavelli
, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1844
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Birthday of
Richard D'Oyly Carte
, English Impresario.
1898
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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
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Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
1978
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The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (
spam
) is sent by Digital Equipment Corporation to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the US.
1971
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Anti-war protesters began four days of
demonstrations intended to shutting down Washington, D.C.
1990
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The
Latvian parliament met to declare independence
from the USSR.
2002
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Death of Barbara Castle, British politician.
2006
~
Zacarias Moussaoui
was sentenced to life in prison.
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