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On This Day In History for May 3, 2023
This is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days remaining in 2023.
- It was on this date in 1715, that A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy
- On May 3, 1837, The University of Athens was founded in Athens, Greece.
- 71 years ago today, The Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network
- Also today in 1952, Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States landed a plane at the North Pole
- That same date in 1978, The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as “spam”) was sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States
- May 3, 2000, The sport of geocaching began, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- Italian historian and philosopher, Niccolò Machiavelli, born on this date in 1469.
- Born May 3, 1695, French physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube Henri Pitot.
- Italian mathematician and physicist, Vito Volterra, born on this date in 1860.
- Born May 3, 1879, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founded Qantas, Fergus McMaster.
- George Paget Thomson, the English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 131 years ago today.
- Bing Crosby, American singer and actor was born on that same date in 1903.
- German-Danish mathematician and academic, Werner Fenchel, born on this date in 1905.
- James Brown, the American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor was born 90 years ago today.
- American singer and actor, Frankie Valli is 89 today.
- Born May 3, 1935, American businessman, founded the Ronco Company Ron Popeil.
Listener Birthdays
- 3 – Keao Wright
- 3 – Leon
- 5 – Joe Mieczkowski host of Onthepodcast
- 6 – Amber Pace (not really a listener, but a mother and a wife of listeners)
- 6 – Bill Barbour
- 6 – Steve Bickle
- 6 – Brian Brown
- 8 – Curtis Parish
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May 3, 2023
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News
- James Webb Space Telescope spots huge galactic protocluster in the early universe (photo)
- NASA is keeping Voyager 2 going until at least 2026 by tapping into backup power
- ‘Mom, these bad men have me’: She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping
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