Monday, 3 May 1999 Everyday is special...and today is no exception to the rule. Read on to learn more about the birthdays, deathdays, events and holidays throughout the world that make this day so unique.

BTW, this is National Barbeque Month

Birthdays of Note...
530 yrs ago	1469	Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian politician/writer (The Prince).
107 yrs ago	1892	Sir George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937).
101 yrs ago	1898	Golda Meir, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74).
96 yrs ago	1903	Bing Crosby, singer (White Christmas).
93 yrs ago	1906	Mary Astor, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific).
79 yrs ago	1920	Sugar Ray Robinson, middleweight/welterweight boxer (champ).
71 yrs ago	1928	James Brown, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants).
63 yrs ago	1936	Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey], singer.
62 yrs ago	1937	Frankie Valli, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry).
53 yrs ago	1946	Greg Gumbel, sportscaster.
52 yrs ago	1947	Doug Henning, magician (Broadway play-Magic).
48 yrs ago	1951	Christopher Cross, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme).
Death Anniversaries...
17 yrs ago	1982	Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver)
Significant Events...
505 yrs ago	1494	Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago".
337 yrs ago	1662	Royal charter granted Connecticut.
169 yrs ago	1830	1st regular steam train passenger service starts.
154 yrs ago	1845	1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Mass).
93 yrs ago	1906	British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey.
80 yrs ago	1919	America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City).
76 yrs ago	1923	1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed.
73 yrs ago	1926	US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933.
63 yrs ago	1936	Joe DiMaggio made his major-league debut, got 3 hits.
55 yrs ago	1944	"Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway.
52 yrs ago	1947	Japan forms a constitutional democracy.
47 yrs ago	1952	1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole.
34 yrs ago	1965	1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite.
28 yrs ago	1971	National Public Radio begins programming.
26 yrs ago	1973	Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out.
20 yrs ago	1979	1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher).
8 yrs ago	1991	356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke.
Holidays Around the World...
Constitution Day - Japan (1947) & Poland (1794)
King's Birthday - Lesotho
Bank Holiday - Northern Ireland
New Orleans - McDonogh Day

All information on this page came from Cejour, a section of Dujour, an internet novelty site.