- 1469 Italian historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli born; wrote The Prince, The Discourses on Livy, History of Florence.
- 1695 Italian-French engineer Henri Pitot born; invented the pitot tube, used to measure airspeed in aircraft.
- 1860 Italian mathematician Vito Volterra born; father (with Stefan Banach) of functional analysis; father (with Ivar Fredholm) of integral equations.
- 1933 American physicist Steven Weinberg born; 1979 Nobel (with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow) for the unification of the nuclear-weak and the electromagnetic forces in a single theory.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Today in History: May 3
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