(+) Political philosopher and poet Nicolo di Bernardo del Machiavelli is born in Firenze, Italy.
284 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 May 1729
(+) Composer Florian Leopold Gassmann is born in Brüx, Bohemia, Czechoslowakia.
255 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 May 1758
(-) 247th Pope Benedictus XIV originally Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, dies at the age of 83 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
115 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 May 1898
(+) Founder of the State of Israel Golda Meir originally Golda Mabovitz or Golda Myerson, is born in Kiev, Russia.
109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 May 1904
(+) Musician and actor Bing Crosby originally Harry Lillis, is born in Tacoma, Washington, United States.
109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 May 1904
(-) Murderer Allan Mooney is executed by Old Sparky in Dannemora Prison, United States.
102 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 May 1911
(-) Murderer Joseph Nesce is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, United States.
(+) Musician James Joseph Brown aka The Godfather of Soul, is born in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States.
79 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 May 1934
(+) Musician Frankie Valli originally Frank Castelluccio, is born in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 May 1940
(+) Sound engineer Konrad Conny Plank is born in Hütschenhausen, Germany.
66 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 May 1947
(x) Execution of the Bullies of Ravensbruck in Germany.
65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 May 1948
(-) Murderer James Farran is killed by a bomb he received in the mail in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 May 1950
(+) Cult Leader Jeffrey Lundgren is born in Independence, Missouri, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 May 1962
(x) 163 Die in train collision in Tokyo, Japan.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 May 1970
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, marries Janet in Queens Village Our Lady of Lourdes Church, New York, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 May 1977
(x) 24-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Verena Becker is arrested after a shootout with the police in Singen, Germany.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 May 1979
(x) 49-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested posing as Ron Springer for the assault of 7-year-old Thomas Morton in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 May 1981
(x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "On a Sundaymorning" in Leiden, Odessa Rood, Netherlands.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 May 1982
(x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is released after serving 17 years of a life-sentence in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 May 1984
(-) Beate Koch is abducted and held imprisoned by Dr. Ulrich Kochwald at the age of 19 in Pillnach, Germany.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 May 1985
(x) 70 Die in Aeroflot Toepolev 134 crash in Kvov, Russia.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 May 1987
(-) Musician and actress Dalida commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 54 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
She left behind a suicide note that said: "Life has become unbearable ... forgive me."
22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 May 1991
(-) Writer Jerzy Kosinski commits suicide by asphyxiation with a plastic bag in his bath, suffering from an irregular heartbeat as well as severe physical and nervous exhaustion at the age of 57 in New York, New York, United States.
His parting note read: "I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity."
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 May 1994
(-) Murderer Paul Rougeau is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 May 1995
(-) Murderer Emmit Foster is executed by lethal injection in Missouri, United States.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 May 1996
(-) Triple murderer Keith Daniel Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in San Quentin Prison, California, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 May 1999
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng is found guilty of murdering 11 people in a 1980s sex-and-torture murder spree in Santa Ana, California, United States.
8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 May 2005
(-) Murderer Lonnie Wayne Pursley is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 May 2006
(-) Artist Karel Christiaan Appel dies of heart failure at the age of 85 in Zurich, Switzerland.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 May 2006
(x) 113 Die in Armavia Flight 967 Airbus A320-211 crash in the Black Sea.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 May 2007
(-) Murderer Aaron Lee Jones is executed by lethal injection in Alabama, United States.
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