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| Birthday May 03, 1469 Niccolo Machiavelli, politician (The Prince) |
| Birthday May 03, 1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, impresario |
| Birthday May 03, 1859 Cowboy author Andy Adams is born |
| Birthday May 03, 1874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker |
| Birthday May 03, 1892 Sir George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937) |
| Birthday May 03, 1897 V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian nationalist, statesman |
| Birthday May 03, 1898 Golda Meir, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74) |
| Birthday May 03, 1906 Mary Astor, Actress |
| Birthday May 03, 1919 Betty Comden, song writer, Bkln |
| Birthday May 03, 1919 Pete Seeger, folk singer |
| Birthday May 03, 1920 Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer |
| Birthday May 03, 1933 James Brown is born |
| Birthday May 03, 1937 Franki Valli, singer |
| Birthday May 03, 1939 Samantha Eggar, in England |
| Birthday May 03, 1941 Nona Gaprindasvili, of USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78) |
| Birthday May 03, 1942 Vera Caslavska-Odlozilova, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast |
| Birthday May 03, 1965 173rd Airborne Brigade deploys to South Vietnam |
| History May 03, 1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen |
| History May 03, 1662 Royal charter granted Conn |
| History May 03, 1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" |
| History May 03, 1765 1st US Medical school opened |
| History May 03, 1775 Dartmouth tells Martin to organize North Carolina Loyalists |
| History May 03, 1797 Jamaica discovered by Columbus |
| History May 03, 1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont |
| History May 03, 1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts |
| History May 03, 1863 Confederates take Hazel Grove at Chancellorsville |
| History May 03, 1898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio |
| History May 03, 1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey |
| History May 03, 1915 Austro-German forces drive Russians out of the Carpathians |
| History May 03, 1919 America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City) |
| History May 03, 1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium |
| History May 03, 1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed |
| History May 03, 1926 US marines land in Nicaragua - stay until 1933 |
| History May 03, 1940 FDR addresses thousands of Democratic women |
| History May 03, 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea begins |
| History May 03, 1946 Japanese war crimes trial begins |
| History May 03, 1947 New Japanese constitution goes into effect |
| History May 03, 1948 U.S. Supreme Court decides Paramount antitrust case |
| History May 03, 1951 Congressional hearings on General MacArthur |
| History May 03, 1951 Gil McDougald ties record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning |
| History May 03, 1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole |
| History May 03, 1952 Fletcher lands on the North Pole |
| History May 03, 1961 JFK receives honorary degree |
| History May 03, 1962 Trains collide near Tokyo |
| History May 03, 1965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10 |
| History May 03, 1968 Paris is chosen as site for peace talks |
| History May 03, 1971 Natl non-coml Network Radio Begins Programming |
| History May 03, 1971 Nixon administration arrests 13 -000 anti-war protesters in 3 days |
| History May 03, 1980 MADD founder's daughter killed by drunk driver |
| History May 03, 1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8 - Wales Conf Championship- Isles hold 3-1 lead |
| History May 03, 1986 Shoemaker becomes oldest man to win Kentucky Derby |
| History May 03, 1992 Exxon executive is murdered |
| History May 03, 2007 British girl goes missing in Portugal |