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May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). There are 242 days remaining. Jump to: navigation, search The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nowadays nearly everywhere in the world. ...
A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day or month in order to keep the calendar year in sync with an astronomical or seasonal year. ...
This article is about the month of May. ...
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Events - 1494 - Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica.
- 1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet.
- 1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
- 1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
- 1810 - Lord Byron swims the Hellespont.
- 1849 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
- 1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
- 1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
- 1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
- 1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- 1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- 1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
- 1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S Truman.
- 1952 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
- 1956 - The judo World Championships are first held.
- 1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
- 1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
- 1971 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
- 1974 - The Portuguese Democratic Labour Party is founded in Portugal.
- 1980 - The Communist Party of Togo is founded.
- 1986 - In Bergen, Norway, Sandra Kim wins the thirty-first Eurovision Song Contest for Belgium singing "J'aime la vie" (I love life).
- 1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
- 1991 - The last episode of the soap opera Dallas airs.
- 1997 - In Dublin, Ireland, Katrina and the Waves win the forty-second Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Love Shine a Light".
- 1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado. The tornado was part of a storm system that produces 66 tornadoes. The Oklahoma City tornado kills 42 people and injures 665, and causes $1 billion in damage. (see The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak)
- 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
- 2000 - Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2000 - The sport of Geocaching begins with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS are posted on Usenet.
- 2003 - New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
- 2003 - Funny Cide becomes the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby.
Events January 25 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Christopher Columbus (conjectural image) For information about the film director, see the article on Chris Columbus. ...
1791 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
May 3rd Constitution (painting by Jan Matejko, 1891). ...
This article is about the lower chamber of Polish parliament. ...
1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
The Finnish War was fought between Sweden and Russia from February 1808 to September 1809. ...
Utsikt över Sveaborg (View over Sveaborg), painting by Augustin Ehrensvärd Suomenlinna (Finnish), or Sveaborg (Swedish), is an inhabited sea fortress built on six islands, today within Helsinki, the capital of Finland. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Peninsular War (1808â1814) (known as War of Independence in Spain and as French Invasions in Portugal) was a major conflict during the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the Iberian Peninsula with Spanish, Portuguese, and the British forces fighting against Napoleonic French. ...
Jump to: navigation, search May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ...
PrÃncipe PÃo is the name of a hill in the western part of Madrid, Spain. ...
1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ...
Hellespont (i. ...
1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Revolutionary barricades in Germany The May Uprising took place in Dresden, Germany in 1849; it was one of the last of the series of events known as the Revolutions of 1848. ...
// Preliminaries Germany at the time of the Revolutions of 1848 was a collection of over 30 states loosely bound together in the German Confederation after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. ...
1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ...
King Karl XV of Sweden, Carl IV of Norway, Carl Ludvig Eugén (May 3, 1826 - August 19, 1872), was the eldest son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway, and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. ...
The Kingdom of Sweden-Norway is a term sometimes, but erroneously, used to refer to the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway between 1814 and 1905, when they were united under one monarch in a personal union, following the Convention of Moss, on August 14, and the Norwegian constitutional revision of...
Jump to: navigation, search 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) TSX: HBC is the oldest corporation in Canada (and North America) and is one of the oldest in the world still in existence. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Located off Canadas Pacific coast and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia Vancouver Island is, at 32,134 square kilometers (12,407 square miles), the largest island on the western side of the Americas. ...
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Nellie Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876–December 19, 1977) was the first female governor of a U.S. state. ...
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Gone With the Wind was an instant success. ...
DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, Gone with the Wind, that was published in 1936. ...
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ...
The Cap Arcona was a 27,500 gross ton German luxury passenger steamer of the Hamburg South America line. ...
The Thielbek was a 2,815 register ton freighter sunk with the Cap Arcona and the Deutschland on May 3, 1945 in the Bay of Lubeck with the loss of 2,750 lives. ...
The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 214. ...
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The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (also referred to as the IMTFE, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, or the Tokyo Trial) was held to try the leaders of Japan for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed during World War II, including some incidents such...
Jump to: navigation, search Long a symbol of Tokyo, the Nijubashi Bridge at the Kokyo Imperial Palace. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A war crime is a punishable offense, under international (criminal) law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ...
This article is in need of attention. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Constitution of Japan has been the founding legal document of Japan since 1947. ...
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London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
The Royal Festival Hall is a concert, dance and talks venue within the South Bank Centre in London. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ...
Jump to: navigation, search General Douglas MacArthur aboard a battle ship toward the end of World War II, 1945 Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880-5 April 1964) was an American military leader credited with defeating the Japanese in World War II. He helped rebuild Japan after the war and played...
For the victim of Mt. ...
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Joseph O. Fletcher (b. ...
Lieutenant Colonel William P. Benedict was an American pilot from California. ...
This is about the geographic meaning of North Pole. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Judo (Japanese: æé JÅ«dÅ; literally gentle way) is a martial art, a sport and a philosophy which originated in Japan. ...
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Walter Francis OMalley (1903-1979) circa 1940-1950 Walter Francis OMalley (October 9, 1903 - August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Major league affiliations National League (1890-present) West Division (1969-present) American Association (1884-1889) Major league titles World Series titles (6) 1988 ⢠1981 ⢠1965 ⢠1963 1959 ⢠1955 NL Pennants (21) 1988 ⢠1981 ⢠1978 ⢠1977 1974 ⢠1966 ⢠1965 ⢠1963 1959 ⢠1956 ⢠1955 ⢠1953 1952 ⢠1949 ⢠1947...
For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ...
Jump to: navigation, search The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish; Los Ãngeles, ) also known simply as L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...
Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ...
The Fantasticks original Off Broadway CD cover The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical comedy with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. ...
New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Greenwich Village (also known as the West Village or simply the Village) is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...
All Things Considered, sometimes abbreviated ATC, is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ...
NPR logo NPR redirects here. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Portuguese Democratic Labour Party (in Portuguese: Partido Trabalhista Democrático Português) was a centre-left political party in Portugal. ...
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Communist Party of Togo (in French: Parti Comuniste du Togo) is a communist party in Togo, founded May 3-4 1980. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search County Hordaland Landscape Midhordland Municipality NO-1201 Administrative centre Bergen Mayor (2004) Herman Friele (H) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 215 465 km² 445 km² 0. ...
Sandra Kim alias Caldarone Sandra is a Belgian singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1986. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Running since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest (in French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson) is an annual televised song contest with participants from numerous countries whose national television broadcasters are members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Declaration of Windhoek is a statement of free press principles put together by African journalists in 1991. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction...
Jump to: navigation, search Dallas was a long-running primetime television soap opera about the Ewings, a wealthy Texas oil family. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1997(MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Dublin (Irish: Baile Ãtha Cliath), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin region. ...
Katrina and the Waves formed in 1981 in Cambridge, England, and were fronted by American singer Katrina Leskanich until she left the group in 1999. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Running since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest (in French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson) is an annual televised song contest with participants from numerous countries whose national television broadcasters are members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Downtown Oklahoma City The State Capitol of Oklahoma From The South Nickname: Renaissance City Founded Incorporated 1889 County Oklahoma County Cleveland County Canadian County Mayor Mick Cornett Area - Total - Water 1,608. ...
The Fujita scale rates a tornados intensity by the damage it inflicts on human-built structures. ...
The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak is the May 3, 1999 tornado event that killed 46 people. ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company founder Charles Dow. ...
Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ...
Datapoint Corporation, originally known as Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC), was a computer company based in San Antonio, Texas. ...
Intel 8008 The Intel 8008 was an early microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel, and introduced in April, 1972. ...
Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code governs the process of reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A Geocache in Germany Geocaching is an outdoor sport that most often involves the use of a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or traditional navigational techniques to find a geocache (or cache) placed anywhere in the world. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ...
Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Granite State Other U.S. States Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Governor John Lynch (D) Senators Judd Gregg (R) John Sununu (R) Official languages English Area 24,239 km² (46th) - Land 23,249 km² - Water 814 km² (3. ...
This article is about the New Hampshire landmark. ...
Funny Cide (born April 20, 2000) is a Thoroughbred race horse bred at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in the town of Saratoga, New York, from sire Distorted Humor and dam Belles Good Cide. ...
State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th) - Land 122,409 km² - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Churchill Downs ractrack, 2004 The Kentucky Derby is a stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged yearly in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ...
Births - 612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
- 1415 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
- 1428 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)
- 1446 - Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503)
- 1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
- 1662 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d. 1736)
- 1695 - Henri Pitot, French engineer (d. 1771)
- 1713 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
- 1761 - August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
- 1826 - Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
- 1835 - Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
- 1844 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario (d. 1901)
- 1849 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
- 1859 - Andy Adams, American author (d. 1935)
- 1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
- 1861 - Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937)
- 1867 - J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
- 1874 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
- 1877 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
- 1886 - Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
- 1888 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1892 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1893 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
- 1895 - Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
- 1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
- 1902 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1903 - Bing Crosby, American singer (d. 1977)
- 1905 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
- 1906 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (d. 1975)
- 1906 - Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987)
- 1912 - Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
- 1913 - William Inge, American playwright (d. 1973)
- 1915 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d. 2003)
- 1919 - Betty Comden, American lyricist (d. 2002)
- 1919 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
- 1919 - Pete Seeger, American folk singer
- 1921 - Joe Ames, American singer
- 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
- 1923 - Ralph Hall, American politician
- 1928 - Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1933 - James Brown, American singer
- 1933 - Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 - Frankie Valli, American singer
- 1945 - Davey Lopes, baseball player and coach
- 1946 - Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
- 1947 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000)
- 1950 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist (d. 1991)
- 1950 - Mary Hopkin, Welsh singer
- 1951 - Christopher Cross, American musician
- 1951 - Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
- 1952 - Allan Wells, British athlete
- 1955 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
- 1959 - Uma Bharati, Indian politician
- 1959 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author
- 1962 - Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
- 1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
- 1972 - Celeste, American actress
- 1975 - Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist
Events Saint Columbanus moves to Italy to establish the monastery of Bobbio (approximate date). ...
Heraclius Constantine, or Constantine III, was the eldest son of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius and his first wife Eudocia, born May 3, 612. ...
This is a list of Byzantine Emperors. ...
Events Founding of the city of Fostat, later Cairo, in Egypt. ...
Events Friedrich I Hohenzollern (b. ...
The most notable woman named Cecily Neville was the mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (see below), but she was not the only one to bear that name. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Edward IV (April 28, 1442 â April 9, 1483) was King of England from March 4, 1461 to April 9, 1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470-1471. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Richard III (2 October 1452 â 22 August 1485) was the King of England from 1483 until his death and the last king from the House of York. ...
Events February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the citys throne. ...
// Events October 12 - English forces under Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury besiege Orléans. ...
Pedro González de Mendoza (May 3, 1428 - January 11, 1495), Spanish cardinal and statesman, was the fourth son of Ãñigo López de Mendoza, marquess of Santillana, and duke of Infantado. ...
Events February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the citys throne. ...
Events Mehmed II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is forced to abdicate in favor of his father Murad II by the Janissaries. ...
Margaret of York (May 3, 1446 - November 23, 1503) - also by marriage known as Margaret of Burgundy- was a daughter to Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville, a sister of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, third wife to Charles the Bold, Duke...
Jump to: navigation, search Charles the Bold, a posthumous portrait by Peter Paul Rubens Charles, called the Bold (French: Charles le Téméraire) (November 10, 1433 â January 5, 1477) was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. ...
Events January 20 - Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive right to trade with the New World. ...
Events July 26 - Battle of Edgecote Moor October 17 - Prince Ferdinand of Aragon wed princess Isabella of Castile. ...
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Events January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church. ...
Events March 18 â Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris May 3/May 2 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England â as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy...
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (May 3, 1662, Herford - January 17, 1737, Dresden) was a German master builder who helped to rebuild Dresden after the fire of 1685, and designed Dresden Castle and the Pillnitz church. ...
Events January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. ...
Events January 27 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed II to Mustafa II (1695-1703) July 17 - The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of Parliament of the old Scottish Parliament. ...
Henri Pitot (1695 May 3 - 1771 December 27) was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube, which measures flow velocity. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Jump to: navigation, search // Events April 11 - War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht June 23 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada first Orrery built by George Graham Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the...
Alexis Claude Clairault (or Clairaut) (May 3, 1713 â May 17, 1765) was a French mathematician. ...
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1761 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (May 3, 1761 _ March 23, 1819), was a German dramatist. ...
1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
King Karl XV of Sweden, Carl IV of Norway, Carl Ludvig Eugén (May 3, 1826 - August 19, 1872), was the eldest son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway, and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913) was an English poet. ...
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Richard DOyly Carte (May 3, 1844 – April 3, 1901) was a London theatrical impresario during the latter half of the nineteenth century. ...
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1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Prince Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin von Bülow (May 3, 1849âOctober 28, 1929) was a German statesman who served as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The German title Bundeskanzler is also the title of the Chancellor of Austria, and the title of a Swiss federal official (List of Federal Chancellors of Switzerland). ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
Andy Adams (May 3, 1859 â September 26, 1935) was an American writer of western fiction. ...
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John Scott Haldane (May 3, 1860 - March 15/March 14, 1936) was a Scottish medical doctor. ...
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John Thomas Hearne (born May 3, 1867; died April 17, 1944) (known either as Jack Hearne or J.T. Hearne to avoid confusion with J.W. Hearne to whom he was only distantly related) was a Middlesex and England medium-fast bowler. ...
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François Coty (May 3, 1874 â July 25, 1934) was a French perfume manufacturer and the founder of the right-wing paramilitary group Solidarité Française. ...
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Karl Abraham (3 May 1877 - 25 December 1925) was an early German psychoanalyst, and a correspondent of Sigmund Freud. ...
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Marcel Dupré Marcel Dupré (May 3, 1886âMay 30, 1971), was a French organist and composer. ...
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Beulah Bondi (May 3, 1888- January 1, 1981) was an American actress. ...
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George Paget Thomson (May 3, 1892 â September 10, 1975), British physicist and son of Nobel Prize winning physicist J. J. Thomson. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...
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Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (May 3, 1893 - July 17, 1975) was a classic of Georgian literature of the 20th century and famous public benefactor, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Ph. ...
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Cornelius Van Til Cornelius Van Til (born 1895 in Grootegast, The Netherlands; died 1987) was a Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist. ...
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Golda Meir was the fourth Prime Minister of Israel Image:Stamp Golda Meir. ...
The Prime Minister of Israel is the elected head of the Israeli government. ...
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Alfred Kastler (May 3, 1902 - January 7, 1984) is a French physicist, born in Guebwiller, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Bing wooed fans with a sensuous voice, wit, and good looks. ...
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Sebastian Shaw as Anakin Skywalker, left, Yoda, center, and Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, right. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted (May 3, 1906-December 1, 1975) was the first child of Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. ...
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Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 â September 25, 1987) was an American actress. ...
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Virgil Fox (1912â1980) was a renowned organist, known especially for his flamboyant Heavy Organ concerts of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach for audiences more familiar with Rock and Roll music, staged complete with light shows. ...
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William Inge, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954 William Motter Inge (May 3, 1913-June 10, 1973) was an American author and playwright, whose works feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. ...
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Stu Hart Stu Hart, CM (born Stewart Edward Hart on May 3, 1915, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) was a Canadian amateur wrestler, professional wrestler and wrestling trainer. ...
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Comden and Green was the writing duo of Betty Comden and Adolph Green. ...
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John Cullen Murphy (May 3, 1919 in New York City - July 2, 2004 in Greenwich, Connecticut) was the artist of the Prince Valiant comic strip. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Pete Seeger, 1944 Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919 in New York City), almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer and political activist. ...
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The Ames Brothers were a singing quartet from Malden, Massachusetts who were particularly famous in the 1950s for their traditional pop music hits. ...
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Ralph Moody Hall (born May 3, 1923) is a United States Representative from the Fourth Congressional District in Texas (map). ...
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Dave Dudley (born as Darwin David Pedruska or Pudraska, May 3, 1928 - December 22, 2003) was an American country singer, best known for his songs about the lives of truck drivers. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search James Brown, known variously as: Soul Brother Number One, the Godfather of Soul, Mr. ...
Steven Weinberg at Harvard University Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...
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Frankie Valli (born May 3, 1937 in the Italian First Ward of Newark, New Jersey as Francis Stephen Castelluccio) is best known as lead singer of The Four Seasons, one of the biggest music acts of the 1960s, which continued from then to the 1970s disco scene to the present...
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Jump to: navigation, search David Earl Lopes (born May 3, 1945 in East Providence, Rhode Island) is a former second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball. ...
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Silvino Francisco (born May 3, 1946) is a South African professional snooker player. ...
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Doug Henning in his standard costume style that changed the image of stage magicians. ...
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Howard Ashman (May 3, 1950 â March 14, 1991), born Howard Elliott Gershman in Baltimore, Maryland, was an American playwright and movie music lyricist. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Mary Hopkin (born May 3, 1950) is a British singer. ...
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Christopher Cross (born May 3, 1951 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American singer and songwriter. ...
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Tatyana Tolstaya (also Tatiana Tolstaya) is a well-known modern Russian writer, TV-host, publicist, novelist, and essayist. ...
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Allan Wipper Wells (born May 3, 1952) is a former Scottish athlete. ...
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David Hookes David Hookes (born May 3, 1955 in Adelaide; died January 19, 2004 in Melbourne) was an Australian cricketer and Victorian cricket coach. ...
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Uma Bharti (born May 3, 1959, Madhya Pradesh, India) is an Indian politician. ...
Ben Elton (born May 3, 1959) is an English comedian and writer. ...
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Photo by Alexander Danielsson, used with permission Anders Graneheim (born May 3, 1962 in Timrå, Sweden) is a Swedish bodybuilder. ...
1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...
Darren Morgan (born May 3, 1966) is a Welsh professional snooker player. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Album cover of The Piano Player (2003) Maksim Mrvica (pronounced Máravitsa) (born May 3, 1975) is a popular pianist from Croatia. ...
Deaths - 1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, queen of Stephen of England
- 1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop
- 1294 - John I, Duke of Brabant
- 1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
- 1598 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
- 1606 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit missionary (b. 1555)
- 1622 - Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
- 1679 - James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
- 1693 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
- 1704 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (b. 1644)
- 1724 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
- 1750 - John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
- 1752 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland
- 1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
- 1763 - George Psalmanazar, British imposter
- 1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712)
- 1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
- 1839 - Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
- 1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b. 1803)
- 1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
- 1958 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
- 1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
- 1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
- 1988 - Milt Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
- 1991 - Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born writer (b. 1933)
- 1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
- 2002 - Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British politician (b. 1910)
- 2003 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
- 2004 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)
Jump to: navigation, search Events March 4 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans Eleanor of Aquitaine has her marriage to Louis VII annulled May 18 - Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry of Anjou Church of Ireland acknowledges Popes authority Almohad Dynasty conquers Algeria Establishment of the archbishopric...
Jump to: navigation, search Matilda I of Bolougne (1105 â May 3, 1152), also nicknamed Maud, was queen consort of England, the wife of King Stephen. ...
Stephen (1096 â October 25, 1154), the last Norman King of England, reigned from 1135 to 1154, when he was succeeded by his cousin Henry II, the first of the Angevin or Plantagenet Kings. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Events Erik den helige is succeeded by Karl Sverkersson. ...
Peter Lombard (c. ...
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Portrait of John I, Duke of Brabant from the Codex Manesse. ...
Events May 3 - Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Beyazid II. May 21 - Christian I, King of Denmark and Norway dies and is succeeded by his son John (1481-1513) With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou, Anjou was reverted...
Jump to: navigation, search Mehmed II Mehmed II, or Muhammed II, (also known as el-Fatih, the Conqueror, in Ottoman Turkish, or, in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmed, sometimes spelled as Mehmet) (March 30, 1432 â May 3, 1481) was first the sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time...
The Osmanli Dynasty, also the House of Osman, ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1923, beginning with Osman I (not counting his father, Ertuğrul), though the dynasty was not proclaimed until 1383 when Murad I declared himself sultan. ...
Events June 1 - Battle of San Romano - Florence defeats Siena foundation of Université de Caen In the end of the Hook and Cod wars, Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and Holland is forced by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to abdicate all her estates in his favour; end of Hainaut...
Events January 7 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I April 13 - Edict of Nantes - Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. ...
Anna Guarini, Contessa Trotti, (1563 – May 3, 1598) was an Italian virtuoso singer of the late Renaissance. ...
Events February 1 - Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia February 18 - The Duke of Guise is assassinated while besieging Orléans March - Peace of Amboise. ...
Events January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri December 26 - Shakespeares King Lear performed in court Storm buries a village of St Ismails near...
Henry Garnet or Garnett (1555 - May 3, 1606), English Jesuit, son of Brian Garnett, a schoolmaster at Nottingham, was educated at Winchester and afterwards studied law in London. ...
Events Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland February 2 - Diet of Augsburg begins February 4 - John Rogers becomes first Protestant martyr in England February 9 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake May 23 - Paul IV becomes Pope. ...
Events January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25. ...
Pedro Páez (1564 - May 3, 1622) was a Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Events March 8 â Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death June 22 â Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World September 10 â The Battle of Kawanakajima Ottoman Turks invade Malta Modern pencil becomes common in England Conquistadors crossed the Pacific...
Events January 24 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament August 7 - The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes. ...
This article is about the 17th century minister. ...
Events January - Galileo observes Neptune, but mistakes it for a star and so is not credited with its discovery. ...
Events January 11 - Eruption of Mt. ...
Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (August, 1607 _ May 3, 1693), French courtier, was the second son of Louis de Rouvroi, seigneur du Plessis (d. ...
Events January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. ...
Events Building of the Students Monument in Aiud, Romania. ...
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (August 12, 1644 – May 3, 1704) was a Bohemian composer and violinist. ...
// Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Events January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. ...
John Leverett (1662 - 1724) was an early American lawyer, politician, and educator. ...
Events March 18 â Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris May 3/May 2 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England â as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy...
Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London, England April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 â Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex...
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Events First Portuguese governor was appointed to Macau The Swedish city Karlskrona was founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocated there. ...
1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Samuel Ogle (c. ...
1758 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (Bologna, March 31, 1675 â Rome, May 3, 1758), was pope from 1740 to 1758. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Events January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim June 18 - Battle of Fehrbellin August 10 - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London - construction begins November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. ...
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George Psalmanazar (1679?-May 3, 1763) claimed to be the first Formosan to visit Europe. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 â 3 May 1764) was an Italian philosopher and art critic. ...
Jump to: navigation, search // Events Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. ...
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John Winthrop (December 19, 1714 â May 3, 1779) (not to be confused with his great-great-great-grandfather John Winthrop, founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony) was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College. ...
// Events August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain. ...
1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Ferdinando Paer (June 1, 1771 - May 3, 1839) was an Italian musical composer. ...
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Adolphe Charles Adam (1803 – 1856) was a French composer and critic. ...
1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year. ...
Thorvald Stauning (26 October 1873 - 3 May 1942) was the first Social Democrat Prime Minister of Denmark. ...
This is a list over the heads of government in Denmark, from the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in 1849 until present. ...
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Frank Rowbotham Foster (born January 31, 1889, Birmingham, England; died May 3, 1958, Northampton, England) was a Warwickshire and England all-rounder whose career was tragically cut short by an accident during World War I. Nonetheless, his achievements during the early 1910s are suffient to rank him as one of...
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Dalida as shown on a French stamp issued in 2001 Dalida (January 17, 1933 - May 3, 1987) was an Egyptian-born singer, of Italian origin, making her career in France. ...
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Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (Russian: Ðев СемÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ ÐонÑÑÑгин) (3 September 1908 â 3 May 1988) was a Soviet Russian mathematician. ...
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Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (February 28, 1907-May 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist most famous for Terry and the Pirates. ...
1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
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Jerzy Kosiński. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 â May 30, 1994) was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both of the administrations of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he later served as President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Salt Lake City temple of The Cult of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
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Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn (October 6, 1910 - May 3, 2002), British left-wing politician, was born Barbara Anne Betts in Bradford, Yorkshire, and adopted her familys politics, joining the Labour Party. ...
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Suzy Parker in the The Twilight Zone episode Number Twelve Looks Just Like You with co-star Collin Wilcox. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Anthony Ainley Anthony Ainley (20 August 1932 - 3 May 2004) was an English actor best known for his work on television and particularly for his role as the Master in Doctor Who. ...
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Holidays and observances World Press Freedom Day honours sacrifices around the world made for freedom of the press and reminds governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression that is enshrined under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ...
Constitution Day is a holiday to honour the constitution of a country. ...
The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
In the Christian liturgical calendar, there are several different feasts known as Feasts of the Cross, all of which commemorate the cross used in the crucifixion of Jesus. ...
According to Christian tradition, the True Cross is the cross upon which Jesus was crucified. ...
The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with a saint, and referring to the day as the saints day of that saint. ...
General definition of saint In general, the term Saint refers to someone who is exceptionally virtuous and holy. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Catholic Church, known also as the Roman Catholic Church, is the Christian Church whose visible head is the Pope, currently Benedict XVI. It teaches that it is the one holy catholic and apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ, and that the sole Church of Christ...
Historically, a martyr is a person who dies for his or her religious faith. ...
Events Births Deaths Categories: 119 ...
Jump to: navigation, search Events In the Iberian peninsula, James I of Aragon captures the city of Valencia September 28 from the Moors; the Moors retreat to Granada. ...
Events June 24 - Battle of Bannockburn. ...
Saints Antonia and Alexander were Christian martyrs of 313, and they are saints whose acta are legendary. ...
For other uses, see 313 (number). ...
There are two saints by this name. ...
Events Visigoths appear on the Danube and request entry into the Roman Empire in their flight from the Huns Births Cyril of Alexandria, theologian Deaths Categories: 376 ...
Events Olof, king of Sweden, is baptized. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Yom Haatzmaut (××× ×עצ×××ת yom hÄ-âaá¹£mÄâūṯ), Israeli Independence Day, commemorates the declaration of independence of Israel in 1948. ...
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This figure, in a detail of a medieval Hebrew calendar, reminded Jews of the palm branches ( Lulav) and the citron ( Etrog) to be brought to the synagogue at the end of sukkot, closing the solemn convocations of the calendar in autumn. ...
External links May 2 - May 4 - April 3 - June 3 – listing of all days Jump to: navigation, search May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ...
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Condensed list of historical anniversaries. ...
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