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 +[[Image:Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 023.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[The Third of May 1808]]'' ([[1814]]) by [[Francisco de Goya]]]]
 +[[Image:Niccolò Machiavelli.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Niccolò Machiavelli]] (Detail of [[1500]] portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by [[Santi di Tito]])]]
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-== Art and culture ==+==Events==
-== Births ==+*[[1494]] – [[Christopher Columbus]] first sights land that will be called [[Jamaica]].
-== Deaths ==+*[[1808]] – [[Peninsular War]]: The [[Madrid]] rebels who rose up on [[May 2]] are fired upon near [[Príncipe Pío]] hill.
 +*[[1915]] – The poem ''[[In Flanders Fields]]'' is written by Lieutenant Colonel [[John McCrae]].
 +*[[1938]] - Hitler arrives in Rome to sign an alliance with Mussolini, the chance meeting between two fictional characters in ''[[Un Giornata Particolare]]'' takes place on [[May 8]].
 +*[[1938]] - [[American cinema]], [[United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.]] ruled in the United States.
 +*[[1960]] – The [[Off-Broadway]] [[musical comedy]], ''[[The Fantasticks]]'', opens in [[New York City]]'s [[Greenwich Village]], eventually becoming the longest-running [[musical theatre|musical]] of all time.
 +*[[1968]] - ''[[The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art]]'' opens in [[Lund]], Sweden.
 +*[[1978]] – The first unsolicited bulk commercial [[e-mail]] (which would later become known as "[[Spam (electronic)|spam]]") is sent by a [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] marketing representative to every [[ARPANET]] address on the west coast of the United States.
 +*[[2003]] – [[New Hampshire]]'s famous [[Old Man of the Mountain]] collapses.
 +==Births==
 +*[[1469]] – [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
 +*[[1877]] – [[Karl Abraham]], German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
 +*[[1903]] – [[Bing Crosby]], American singer and actor (d. 1977)
 +*[[1906]] – [[Mary Astor]], [[Academy Award]]-winning American actress (d. 1987)
 +*[[1919]] – [[Pete Seeger]], American singer
 +*[[1933]] – [[James Brown]], American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
 +*[[1934]] – [[Georges Moustaki]], Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter
 +* 1934 – [[Frankie Valli]], American singer ([[The Four Seasons (group)|The Four Seasons]])
 +*[[1940]] – [[Conny Plank|Konrad "Conny" Plank]], German record producer and musician
 +*[[1959]] – [[David Ball (musician)|David Ball]], English musician ([[Soft Cell]])
 +*[[1965]] – [[Rob Brydon]], Welsh comedian
-== Deaths ==+==Deaths==
-[[Dalida]] (January 17, 1933 - May 3, 1987) was an Egyptian-born singer, ... On May 3, 1987 she died as a result of an overdose of sleeping pills leaving behind ...+*[[1481]] – [[Mehmed II]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. 1432)
 +*[[1616]] – [[William Shakespeare]], English writer and actor (b. 1564) (his death is commonly accepted to be on [[April 23#Deaths|April 23]], according to the [[Julian calendar]])
 +*[[1987]] – [[Dalida]], French singer (b. 1933)
 +*[[1989]] – [[Christine Jorgensen]], American transsexual (b. 1926)
 +*[[1991]] – [[Jerzy Kosiński]], Polish-born writer (b. 1933)
 +*[[2006]] – [[Karel Appel]], Dutch painter (b. 1921)
-[[James Brown]] (born May 3, 1933, Barnwell, South Carolina — some sources list his year of birth as 1928 and his birthplace as Pulaski, Tennessee) is one of ...+{{GFDL}}
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-[[William Shakespeare]] (April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; – April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)) has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in ...+
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-[[Niccolò Machiavelli]] (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was a Florentine statesman and political philosopher. As a theorist, Machiavelli was the key figure in ...+

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