On this day in 1469 the Italian statesman and writer Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy. Machiavelli had achieved a small reputation for his role in Florentine politics, but it is for his slim volume of pragmatically amoral political philosophy, 'The Prince,' that his name has become synonymous with expediency, deceit, and intrigue in government; behavior which he only advised if it tended towards an ultimate good. He is seen in an illustrated portrait. 
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geboren (in Florenz): Der italienische Politiker, Dramatiker und Schriftsteller Niccoló Machiavelli (+22.6.1527, in Florenz). Er entwarf die nach ihm als "Machiavellismus" benannte Theorie, dass zum Wohle des Staates, der nach seiner Auffassung monarchistisch geführt werden sollte, notfalls Recht und Moral zum Erhalt des Staates geopfert werden müssten (Machiavellismus). 

 1919 - Betty Comden (Cohen)
screenwriter [w/Adolph Green]: It’s Always Fair Weather, On the Town, Singin’ in the Rain; actress: Greenwich Village, That Was the Week That Was, Garbo Talks, 
Slaves of New York, geboren
Peter Seger
US-amerikanische Folksängerlegende., geboren
1919 Betty Comden Brooklyn NY, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing) , geboren
1919 Pete Seeger New York NY, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene) , geboren

1959 Ben Elton London UK, actor (Stark, Friday Night Live) , geboren
1959 David Ball Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell) , geboren

It was on this day in 1971 that National Public Radio, the U.S. national, non-commercial radio network, was born. 

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting financed National Public Radio so we could, once again, have the thrill of live radio. Listeners turned to NPR for cultural programs, news, information and quality entertainment programming. Award-winning programming such as All Things Considered, NPR’s premier newsmagazine, presented uninterrupted, informative reports on business, economics and the world, in general -- and still does. 

NPR’s most popular shows also include: Talk of the Nation, fascinating and thought-provoking discussions on the day’s issues and what’s behind the headlines; NPR’s Performance Today, a daily portrait of what’s happening in the world of classical music; and Car Talk, starring America’s funniest auto mechanics, the M.I.T. educated grease monkeys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi. NPR also produces and distributes some of America’s finest jazz programming. 

National Public Radio was formed to educate, entertain and inform in ways that were not available elsewhere. It was and is the audience’s alternative to commercial radio. Today, NPR’s satellite-based radio network of almost 600 member stations broadcasts NPR-produced or acquired programs to 13-million listeners in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. 
1971 - In der DDR tritt Walter Ulbricht als Erster Sekretär des Zentralkomitees der SED zurück. Er hatte das Amt seit 1953 bekleidet
US Chart Toppers
1971
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
Put Your Hand in the Hand - Ocean
Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5
Empty Arms - Sonny James
1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 National Public Radio begins programming; 112 NPR stations premiere "All Things Considered"
1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1971 National noncommercial network radio begins programming.

Ein Kater hat in einem Schiffscontainer eine mehrwöchige Reise von Israel nach England überlebt

3 2001 Belgrad: Inhaftierter Ex-Präsident Slobodan Miloševic erhält Anklage des Hagger UNO-Tribunals wegen Kriegsverbrechen
3 2001 Brasilien: Posträuber Ronald Biggs will sich wegen Krankheit nach 36 Jahren den britischen Justiz stellen
 

3 2002 Erfurt: Trauergottesdienst mit 100.000 Teilnehmern am Dom wegen der 16 Opfer des Amoklaufs im Gutenberg Gymnasium
3 2002 Kolumbien: Anschlag auf Gastank in Bojayá der Guerrilla Organisation Frac, min. 60 Tote, Dutzende Verletzte, über 100 werden vermißt
 

Japan-1947, Poland-1791 : Constitution Day
Lesotho : King's Birthday
Northern Ireland : Bank Holiday
Zambia : Labour Day - - - - - ( Monday )
New Orleans : McDonogh Day (1850) - - - - - ( Friday )