This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
05/03/1446 Margaretha, English princess/duchess of Bourgondie 
05/03/1455 Johan II de Volmakte, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jew

05/03/1469 Niccol• Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince) 
05/03/1514 Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal 
05/03/1649 Johann Valentin Meder, composer 
05/03/1691 Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction … l'amour

05/03/1692 John J Mauricius, governor-general of Suriname (1742-51) 
05/03/1729 Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer 
05/03/1737 Friedrich Schwindl, composer 
05/03/1742 Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer 
05/03/1744 Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer 
05/03/1752 Braz Francisco de Lima, composer 
05/03/1773 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat 
05/03/1815 Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist 
05/03/1816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892 
05/03/1819 Nicola De Giosa, composer 
05/03/1826 Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet 
05/03/1844 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist 
05/03/1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe) 
05/03/1849 Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun) 
05/03/1859 Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy) 
05/03/1873 Nikolay Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs (OS) 
05/03/1873 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den) 
05/03/1874 Fran‡ois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker 
05/03/1886 Marcel Dupr‚, French organist/composer 
05/03/1892 Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life) 
05/03/1892 George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937) 
05/03/1895 Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae) 
05/03/1895 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (Le petit g‚n‚ral) 
05/03/1895 Zoltan Korda, Hong Kong/England, director (Jungle Book) 
05/03/1897 V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense 
05/03/1898 Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74) 
05/03/1899 Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven) 
05/03/1902 Hugo Friedhofer, composer 
05/03/1902 Jack Larue, NYC, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette

05/03/1902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General) 
05/03/1903 Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, singer (White Christmas, Going My Way) 
05/03/1904 Charles 'Red' Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46) 
05/03/1906 Mary Astor, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific) 
05/03/1907 Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl) 
05/03/1910 Alceo Galliera, composer 
05/03/1913 Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register) 
05/03/1913 William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953) 
05/03/1915 Evencio Castellanos, composer 
05/03/1916 Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1961-  ) 
05/03/1916 Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome) 
05/03/1917 James Penberthy, composer 
05/03/1919 Betty Comden, Bkln, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing) 
05/03/1919 Pete Seeger, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene) 
05/03/1920 Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], middle/welterweight boxer (champ

05/03/1921 Vasco dos Santos Gon‡alves, Portuguese leftist colonel 
05/03/1923 Ralph M Hall, (Rep-D-TX, 1981-  ) 
05/03/1924 Mary Carver, LA Calif, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon) 
05/03/1925 Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol) 
05/03/1928 James Brown, Augusta Ga, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pant

05/03/1928 Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage) 
05/03/1929 Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral 
05/03/1930 David Evatt Tunley, composer 
05/03/1931 Alex Cord, actor (Dead are Alive) 
05/03/1934 Georg Kroll, composer 
05/03/1935 Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secreatary of Interior (1985-89) 
05/03/1936 Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey], Madras India, singer 
05/03/1937 Frankie Valli, [Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherr

05/03/1939 Jonathan David Harvey, English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhause

05/03/1939 Jos‚ Torres, US, boxer (Olympics) 
05/03/1939 Samantha Eggar, England, actress (Collector) 
05/03/1941 Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78) 
05/03/1942 Vera C…slavsk…-Odlozilova, Czech, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1964, 68) 
05/03/1944 Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing) 
05/03/1946 Greg Gumbel, sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN) 
05/03/1947 Doug Henning, magician (Broadway play-Magic) 
05/03/1949 Ron Wyden, (Rep-D-OR, 1981-  ) 
05/03/1950 Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days) 
05/03/1951 Christopher Cross, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme) 
05/03/1952 Allen Wells, England, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1980) 
05/03/1953 Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star) 
05/03/1957 Cactus Moser, Montrose Co, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry) 
05/03/1957 Rod Langway, Formosa, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Wash Caps) 
05/03/1959 David Ball, rocker (Soft Cell) 
05/03/1968 Deborah Caprioglio, Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter) 
05/03/1970 Ted Crowley, Concord Mass, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/03/1010 Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69 
05/03/1294 Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies 
05/03/1410 Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies 
05/03/1442 Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies 
05/03/1481 Mohammed II, [Fƒtih], sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies 
05/03/1567 Leonhard Paminger, composer, dies at 72 
05/03/1614 Sasbout Vosmeer, RC theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66 
05/03/1654 Fran‡ois van Kinschot, treasurer-gen/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 

05/03/1703 Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies 
05/03/1704 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, composer, dies at 59 
05/03/1707 Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53 
05/03/1737 Abraham Patras, gov-gen of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65 
05/03/1758 Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Pope (1740-58), dies at 84 
05/03/1764 Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53 
05/03/1774 Heinrich A Fouqu‚, Prussian general (7 year war), dies 
05/03/1792 Carlo Zuccari, composer, dies at 87 
05/03/1839 Ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 68 
05/03/1841 Cornelis T Elout, minister of Finance/Naval/Colony, dies at 74 
05/03/1854 William Beale, composer, dies at 70 
05/03/1856 Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27 
05/03/1856 Adolphe C Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52 
05/03/1856 Adolphe Charles Adam, composer, dies at 52 
05/03/1861 Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80 
05/03/1868 Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer, dies at 68 
05/03/1881 Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies 
05/03/1893 Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73 
05/03/1916 P draic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad

05/03/1925 Cl‚ment Ader, French engineer (stream engine airplane), dies at 84 
05/03/1926 Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne 
05/03/1931 Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59 
05/03/1931 Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer, dies at 93 
05/03/1932 Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies 
05/03/1942 Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed 
05/03/1943 Leslie Heward, composer, dies at 45 
05/03/1945 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN), dies at 66 
05/03/1961 Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies 
05/03/1965 Howard Jump, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies 
05/03/1965 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75 
05/03/1968 Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer, dies at 86 
05/03/1969 Imre Vincze, composer, dies at 42 
05/03/1970 Candelario Huizar, composer, dies at 82 
05/03/1972 Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68 
05/03/1975 Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78 
05/03/1978 Wim van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71 
05/03/1979 Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76 
05/03/1982 Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64 
05/03/1982 Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73 
05/03/1983 Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebal hemmorrhage at 

05/03/1986 Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72 
05/03/1990 Pimen, [Sergei M Irzjekov], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, di

05/03/1991 Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/2nd-Member of parliament (D66), dies 
05/03/1991 Gerrit Mik, psychiatrist/Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (D66), dies 
05/03/1991 Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57 
05/03/1992 Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies at 98 of heart seizure 
05/03/1992 George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71), dies at 89 of Leukemia 
05/03/1994 Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at 78 
05/03/1994 Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, CDA-2nd-Member of parliament, dies at 63 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/03/1294 John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg 
05/03/1342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein) 
05/03/1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge 
05/03/1455 Jews flee Spain 
05/03/1494 Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica 
05/03/1494 Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it 'St Iago' 
05/03/1512 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 
05/03/1654 Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals 
05/03/1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen 
05/03/1662 Royal charter granted Connecticut 
05/03/1678 French conquering fleet at Cura‡ao, 1200 die 
05/03/1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon 'Baily's Beads' 
05/03/1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht 
05/03/1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia 
05/03/1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city 
05/03/1808 Goya's 'Executions of 3rd of May' 
05/03/1810 Lord Byron swims Hellespont 
05/03/1822 Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France) 
05/03/1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts 
05/03/1845 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass) 
05/03/1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China 
05/03/1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas 
05/03/1851 Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die 
05/03/1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens 
05/03/1861 Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan 
05/03/1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen 
05/03/1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws 
05/03/1863 Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights) 
05/03/1863 Battle of Salem Church, VA 
05/03/1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault 
05/03/1886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC 
05/03/1888 A Charlois discovers asteroid #277 Elvira 
05/03/1898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio (SF) (see 0517) 
05/03/1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida 
05/03/1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey 
05/03/1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain 
05/03/1919 America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City) 
05/03/1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax 
05/03/1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium 
05/03/1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk 
05/03/1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed 
05/03/1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners 
05/03/1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) 
05/03/1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933 
05/03/1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists 
05/03/1932 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz) 
05/03/1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office 
05/03/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1356 Nyanza & #1638 Ruanda 
05/03/1936 French People's Front wins elections 
05/03/1936 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits 
05/03/1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitizer Prize for 'Gone With the Wind' 
05/03/1938 Concentration camp at Flossenbrg goes into use 
05/03/1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain 
05/03/1941 Eddie Arcaro on Whirlaway wins 67th Kentucky Derby (2:01.4) 
05/03/1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands 
05/03/1942 Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands 
05/03/1942 Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star 
05/03/1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) 
05/03/1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed 
05/03/1943 US Panzer division conquer Mateur Tunisia 
05/03/1944 'Meet Me in St Louis' opens on Broadway 
05/03/1944 Meat rationing ends in US 
05/03/1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg 
05/03/1945 British troop join in Rangoon 
05/03/1945 German ship 'Cap Arcona' sinks in East Sea, 5800 killed 
05/03/1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins 
05/03/1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy 
05/03/1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams 
05/03/1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km 
05/03/1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning 
05/03/1951 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1952 Hesburgh 
05/03/1951 NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th) 
05/03/1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole 
05/03/1953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting 
05/03/1953 Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims 'Freedom to Read' 
05/03/1954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting 
05/03/1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick 
05/03/1954 WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting 
05/03/1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000') 
05/03/1958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits 
05/03/1959 Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader 
05/03/1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train 
05/03/1962 and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) 
05/03/1963 Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat 
05/03/1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite 
05/03/1965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10 
05/03/1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US 
05/03/1965 KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast 
05/03/1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) 
05/03/1966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcastin

05/03/1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U 
05/03/1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl 
05/03/1969 Unbeaten Majestic Prince wins Kentucky Derby 
05/03/1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio station

05/03/1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader 
05/03/1971 National Public Radio begins programming 
05/03/1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days 
05/03/1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) 
05/03/1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out 
05/03/1973 KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit 
05/03/1976 Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) 
05/03/1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) 
05/03/1978 'Sun Day' - solar energy events are held in US 
05/03/1979 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) 
05/03/1980 Genuine Risk becomes 2nd philly to win Kentucky Derby 
05/03/1980 Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & N

05/03/1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations) 
05/03/1982 NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget 
05/03/1982 Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts 
05/03/1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead 
05/03/1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe 
05/03/1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons 
05/03/1984 B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3325 
05/03/1984 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3616 
05/03/1985 Date of $5 million check in 'View to a Kill' 
05/03/1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22 
05/03/1986 Bill Shoemaker, 54, wins Kentucky Derby 
05/03/1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit 
05/03/1986 NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game 
05/03/1986 Willie Shoemaker on Ferdinand wins 112th Kentucky Derby (2:02.8) 
05/03/1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart 
05/03/1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida 
05/03/1988 Jasper Johns' 'Diver' sold for $4,200,000 
05/03/1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass 
05/03/1992 Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs 
05/03/1992 George Murphy, (Sen-R-Calif)/actor, dies at 89 
05/03/1992 NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS 
05/03/1992 Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17 
05/03/1994 D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election 
05/03/1994 US space probe Clementine launched 
  
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