On This Day - May 3rd 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
On This Day - May 3rd 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins.
On This Day - May 3rd 1849 1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I.
On This Day - May 3rd 1916 – The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
On This Day - May 3rd 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
On This Day - May 3rd 1960 – The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam.
On This Day - May 3rd 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (spam) is sent by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
Today's Birthdays
Born On This Day - May 3rd 612 – Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
Born On This Day - May 3rd 1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
Born On This Day - May 3rd 1898 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
Born On This Day - May 3rd 1903 – Bing Crosby, American actor and singer (d. 1977)
Born On This Day - May 3rd 1919 – Today is the birthday of Pete Seeger, American singer and songwriter.
Born On This Day - May 3rd 1933 – James Brown, American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
Born On This Day - May 3rd 1934 – Today is the birthday of Henry Cooper, English Heavweight boxer.
Born On This Day - May 3rd 1934 – Today is the birthday of Frankie Valli, American singer with The Four Seasons.
Born On This Day - May 3rd 1951 – Today is the birthday of Christopher Cross, American musician.
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