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Historical events & facts — May 3
What happened on May 3?
On May 3, 1791, the Polish Diet approved the Constitution of May 3rd — considered the first written and codified constitution in Europe and the second in the modern world after the American one of 1787. The constitution established parliamentary monarchy, abolished the privileges of the nobility and extended rights to the middle class. It was annulled by neighbouring powers who partitioned Poland shortly after.
On May 3, 1978, the first unsolicited email in history — the first spam — was sent to 393 users of the ARPANET network to promote new computers from the DEC company. The author was Gary Thuerk, a company employee. The reaction was one of general outrage. More than 45 years later, spam accounts for more than 45% of global email traffic.
On May 3, 1951, the Cannes Film Festival opened — now the most important film festival in the world. The Palme d'Or, the festival's top award, has recognised works by Bergman, Visconti, Coppola, Tarantino, Haneke and other great filmmakers. Cannes has been since 1946 the global showcase for art-house cinema and a barometer of the cultural and political debates of each era.
Notable birthdays — May 3
Famous people born on May 3
Bernhard von Bülow
Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow was a German politician who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1900 to 1909. A fervent supporter of Weltpolitik, Bülow devoted his chancellorship to transforming Germany into a global power.
Gottfried Fuchs
Gottfried Erik Fuchs, also known as Godfrey Fuchs, was a German Olympic footballer. He scored a then-world record 10 goals for the Germany national team in a 16–0 win against Russia at the 1912 Olympics. He left Germany to escape the Holocaust, as he was Jewish, and ultimately emigrated to Canada.
Golda Meir
Golda Meir was the prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and, to date, only female head of government.
George Gaynes
George Gaynes was a Dutch-American singer, actor, and voice artist. Born to a Dutch father and a Russian mother in the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire, he served in the Royal Netherlands Navy during World War II, and subsequently emigrated to the United States, where he became a citizen and began his acting career on Broadway.
Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current".
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