Page 7: Historical Events In May - 03

1943  On May - 03 pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)   

1943  On May - 03 squadron Leader, Leonard Henry Trent, 487 (NZ) Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over Amsterdam Holland   

1943  On May - 03 strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed   

1943  On this day in history uS first armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia   

1943  Leslie Heward, composer, dies at 45 on May - 03.   

1944  "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway on this day in history.   

1944  On this day in history dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine   

1944  Meat rationing ends in US on this day in history.   

1945  On this day in history allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg   

1945  On this day in history british troop join in Rangoon   

1945  On May - 03 first Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar.   

1945  First Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen on May - 03.   

1945  On this day in history german ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed   

1945  On May - 03 rangoon taken by 26th Indian Division   

1945  On this day in history 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen   

1945  On May - 03 louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66   

1946  On May - 03 international military tribunal in Tokyo begins   

1947  On this day in history japan forms a constitutional democracy   

1947  On this day in history the birth of Doug Hemming, American actor   

1947  On May - 03 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8   

1948  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener &Tennessee Williams   

1948  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams   

1949  A ten nations conference in London forms the Council of Europe on this day in history.   

1949  On May - 03 the first firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km   

1952  On this day in history "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances   

1952  On May - 03 the first airplane to land at the geographic location of the North Pole did so on this day.   

1952  On May - 03 the first landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole   

1954  On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh &John Patrick   

1955  On this day in history philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies   

1956  On May - 03 a new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')   

1957  Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner Walter O’ Malley agreed to move the team from Flatbush to sunny Los Angeles. Initially, only exhibition games were held at the L.A. Coliseum on this day in history.   

1958  On May - 03 in Brockville, Ontario a Trust company is robbed of $3.3 million dollars in bonds and securities.   

1958  Frank Foster, cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies on this day in history.   

1960  Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks" premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

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0612  On this day in history birth of constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)   

1415  On this day in history birth of 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) was born on this day in history.   

1446  Margaretha, English princess/duchess of Bourgondie was born on May - 03.   

1446  On this day in history birth of margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503)   

1469  On this day in history birth of niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince)   

1514  Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal was born on this day in history.   

1535  On this day in history birth of alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer   

1010  On this day in history ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69   

1152  On this day in history death of matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)   

1160  Death of Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100) on this day in history.   

1270  On this day in history death of king Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)   

1294  Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies on this day in history.   

1410  Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies on this day in history.   

1442  On May - 03 engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies   

1481  Death of Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432) on this day in history.