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3rd May
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Born

1898 Golda Meir

1903 Bing Crosby

1919 Pete Seeger

1921 Sugar Ray Robinson

1928 James Brown

1934 Sir Henry Cooper

1937 Frankie Valli

1950 Peter Gabriel

1951 Christopher Cross

1954 Peter Duncan

1957 John Sachs

1959 Ben Elton



Died

1991 Bernie Winters



Music

1997 Katrina and the Waves became the first British act to win The Eurovision Song Contest since Bucks Fizz won the title in 1981.

1999 Insiders revealed that Celine Dion escapes the attentions of fans after concerts by having her roadies carry her away from the venue in a large suitcase.



Sport

1993 Stephen Hendry won the Embassy World Snooker Championship for the 3rd time after beating Jimmy White - 18-5 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

1997 World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov won the first of 6 games with IBM- designed super-computer 'Deep Blue' in New York. The computer was designed to calculate 200-million moves a second and had a complete database of every move of every professional game in history.



People & Showbiz

1999 Toy stores opened at midnight across America to sell the first batches of toys from the new 'Star Wars' film, 'The Phantom Menace'. Scuffles broke out as fans fought to fill shopping trolleys.



General Events

1968 Britain's first heart transplant was carried out at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone on a 45 year old man.

1988 According to the memoirs of Donald Reagan, former chief of staff at the White House, Ronald Reagan used his wife Nancy's astrologer for advice on nearly every major decision.

1993 A tycoon bought the first Ferrari car to be sold in China, for the equivalent of almost 900 years of an average worker's wage packet.

1995 The twin towers of New York' s World Trade Centre, were to be put up for sale by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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