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Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 3:1951 - In Britain, the king and queen inaugurated the Festival of Britain on London s South Bank and opened the Festival Hall.1968 - In Paris, students and police clashed violently at the start of a month of disturbances and strikes.19
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Foreign correspondent Hella Pick, who has died at the age of 94, was at the heart of virtually every major diplomatic event since the early 1960s. She was utterly formidable in her determination to get the story. Her range of contacts was extraordinary and her knowledge encyclopaedic. Well into her nineties she was writing elegant longform pieces for Prospect, including this article drawing sobering parallels between the war she fled as a Kindertransport child in 1939 and the rise of Putin. She was one of a kind.