On this day~ 3 January 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow 1833 - Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic 1852 - 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii 1910 - British miners strike for 8 hour working day 1951 - 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians exposed as British/US agents 1958 - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland 1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century 1892 - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien born, South Africa, philologist/writer 1956 - Mel Gibson born, Peekskill NY, actor 1875 - George Bizet, composer, dies 1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist and author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69
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