May 3
ya may babies!
Events:
1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1952 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
1980 - The Communist Party of Togo is founded.
Births:
1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli
1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer
1933 - James Brown, American singer
1955 - Steve Jones, English musician from rock group The Sex Pistols
1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player. heh. snooker.
Deaths:
1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
1763 - George Psalmanazar, British imposter (...?)
1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer
Also: World Press Freedom Day
Events:
1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1952 - U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
1980 - The Communist Party of Togo is founded.
Births:
1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli
1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer
1933 - James Brown, American singer
1955 - Steve Jones, English musician from rock group The Sex Pistols
1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player. heh. snooker.
Deaths:
1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
1763 - George Psalmanazar, British imposter (...?)
1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer
Also: World Press Freedom Day