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On This Day:
Sunday May 3, 2009
This is the 123rd day of the year, with 242 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Orthodox Easter
Why is Easter on different dates for the Orthodox Church? Since the
Council of Nicaea in 325, Easter has been the Sunday after the full moon after
the vernal (spring) equinox. However, there is still a difference between
Eastern Orthodox and Western Orthodox churches, mainly because almost all
Orthodox Churches, even those who otherwise use the Gregorian calendar, use the
Julian date for the equinox. Thus the date of Orthodox Easter sometimes
coincides with the western Easter date, but it is usually one or four or five
weeks later.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Glywys, St. Juvenal of Narni, Saints Alexander,
Eventius, and Theodulus, and Saints Timothy and Maura.
Japan: Constitution Memorial Day.
Mexico: Day of the Holy Cross.
Poland: Constitution Day / Swieto Trzeciego Majo.
Events
1494 - Christopher Columbus sighted the island of Jamaica.
1765 - The first U.S. medical school to offer a full diploma program
opened, at what is now called the University of Pennsylvania.
1802 - Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city.
1855 - Macon B. Allen became the first African-American to be admitted to
the Bar, in Massachusetts.
1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, "Gone With
the Wind."
1947 - Japan's new constitution went into effect; it granted universal
suffrage, stripped Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power, abolished
peerage, outlawed Japan's right to make war, and offered a bill of rights.
1952 - The first airplane landed on the geographic North Pole.
1971 - National Public Radio started broadcasting.
1979 - Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen as
Britain's first female prime minister; the Tories ousted the incumbent Labour
Party government in parliamentary elections.
2003 - The Old Man of the Mountain, a famous natural granite formation on
Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire, fell; the formation resembled a face and had
been an icon of the state.
Births
1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian philosopher, political theorist.
1898 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974).
1903 - Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby), American singer, actor.
1913 - William M. Inge, American playwright.
1919 - Pete Seeger, American folk singer, songwriter.
1928 - James Brown, American rock and roll singer.
1937 - Frankie Valli (Francis Castellucio), American singer.
Deaths
2000 - Cardinal John O'Connor, archbishop of New York City.
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