May 3
1765 - The first school of medicine in the American colonies, the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia (now the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania), was founded.
1802 - Washington D.C. was incorporated as a city.
1898 - Israeli founder and prime minister Golda Meir was born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev, Ukraine.
1916 - Irish nationalists Padraic Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a British firing squad; they were among 16 people put to death for their roles in the Easter Rising.
1921 - West Virginia imposed the nation's first state sales tax.
1937 - Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind.
1948 - The Shelley v. Kraemer Supreme Court decision stated that it is unconstitutional for a court to enforce a restrictive covenant which prevents people of a certain race from owning or occupying property.
1960 - The musical "The Fantasticks" opened off-Broadway, beginning a record run of nearly 42 years.
1971 - Anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C. aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.
1971 - The National Public Radio program "All Things Considered" made its debut.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of Britain.
1984 - Michael Dell founded Dell Computer Corp. while a student at the University of Texas in Austin.
1987 - The Miami Herald said its reporters had observed a young woman spending "Friday night and most of Saturday" at a Washington townhouse belonging to Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. (The woman was later identified as Donna Rice; the resulting controversy torpedoed Hart's presidential bid.)
1988 - The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule President Ronald Reagan's activities.
1999 - Kansas and Oklahoma were hit by an outbreak of more than 55 tornadoes, including one measured at F5 on the Fujita scale, resulting in 46 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
2001 - The United States, a member of the U.N. Human Rights Commission since its inception in 1947, lost its seat. (It was restored the following year.)
2003 - New Hampshire's state symbol, the granite "Old Man of the Mountain", collapsed in the state's Franconia Mountains.
2005 - Iraq's first democratically elected government was sworn in.
2006 - A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia rejected the death penalty for al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, deciding he should spend life in prison for his role in 9/11; as he was led from the courtroom, Moussaoui taunted, "America, you lost."
2007 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Virginia for the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the settlement of the Jamestown colony.
2007 - Astronaut Wally Schirra died at age 84.
2009 - Mexican President Felipe Calderon told state television that a nationwide shutdown and an aggressive informational campaign appeared to have helped curtail an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico.
2010 - Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad was apprehended aboard a flight preparing to depart New York for Dubai.
2015 - Two gunmen were shot and killed by a police officer in Garland, Texas, after they opened fire outside a purposely provocative contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
2016 - In a stunning triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race.
Birthdays
20 - Rachel Zegler (actress)
25 - Noah Munck (actor)
26 - Zoe De Grand Maison (atress)
34 - Michael Kiwanuka (singer)
35 - Pom Klementieff (actress)
35 - Poppy Delevingne (model)
37 - Cheryl Burke (dancer)
43 - Tanya Wright (actress)
44 - Eric Church (country singer)
46 - Christina Hendricks (actress)
46 - Willie Geist (TV personality)
46 - Marsha Stephanie-Blake (actress)
48 - Brad Martin (country singer)
51 - Bobby Cannavale (actor)
53 - Amy Ryan (actress)
53 - Shane Minor (country singer)
70 - Christopher Cross (singer)
75 - Greg Gumbel (sportscaster)
87 - Frankie Valli (singer)
88 - Alex Cord (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 3
1910 - The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is renamed the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
1936 - Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio made his major league debut with the New York Yankees.
1951 - Gil McDougald (New York Yankees) became the fifth player to get 6 RBIs in an inning.
1970 - The New York Knicks defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1977 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected running back Ricky Bell from USC with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1977 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1977 NFL Draft: DT - Mike Fultz (2nd round, New Orleans Saints); QB - Vince Ferragamo (4th round, Los Angeles Rams); LB - Ray Phillips (5th round, Cincinnati Bengals); DE - Ron Pruitt (6th round, Buffalo Bills); OT - Bob Lingenfelter (7th round, Cleveland Browns); and DB - Dave Butterfield (11th round, New York Jets).
1979 - Bobby Bonds of the Cleveland Indians becomes the second player in major league history with 300 career home runs and 300 stolen bases.
1979 - The Buffalo Bills select linebacker Tom Cousineau of Ohio State with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1979 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1979 NFL Draft: LB - George Andrews (1st round, 19th pick, Los Angeles Rams); OT - Kelvin Clark (1st round, 22nd pick, Denver Broncos); OG - Barney Cotton (3rd round, Cincinnati Bengals); RB - Rick Berns (3rd round, Tampa Bay Buccaneers); OG - Steve Lindquist (6th round, Miami Dolphins); LB - Lee Kunz (7th round, Chicago Bears); WR - Frank Lockett (10th round, Green Bay Packers); and DE - Randy Poeschl (11th round, Cleveland Browns).
1980 - Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants hit the 521st and final home run of his career.
1980 - Ferguson Jenkins of the Texas Rangers became the fourth player to win 100 games in both the American and National Leagues.
1986 - At the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory.
1986 - Don Mattingly (New York Yankees) became the 6th player to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game.
1992 - Gregg Olson (Baltimore Orioles) became the youngest player to record 100 saves. He was 25 years old.
1992 - Eddie Murray (New York Mets) became the 24th player to hit 400 home runs.
2007 - The Golden State Warriors upset the Dallas Mavericks in six games in the opening round of the Western Conference NBA playoffs; it was the first time in league history a No. 8 seed had eliminated a No. 1 seed in a seven-game series.
2011 - Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls, at age 22, became the youngest player ever named NBA MVP.
2018 - Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan becomes the first player in NFL history to earn $30 million per season after agreeing to a $150 million contract extension.
1765 - The first school of medicine in the American colonies, the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia (now the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania), was founded.
1802 - Washington D.C. was incorporated as a city.
1898 - Israeli founder and prime minister Golda Meir was born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev, Ukraine.
1916 - Irish nationalists Padraic Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a British firing squad; they were among 16 people put to death for their roles in the Easter Rising.
1921 - West Virginia imposed the nation's first state sales tax.
1937 - Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind.
1948 - The Shelley v. Kraemer Supreme Court decision stated that it is unconstitutional for a court to enforce a restrictive covenant which prevents people of a certain race from owning or occupying property.
1960 - The musical "The Fantasticks" opened off-Broadway, beginning a record run of nearly 42 years.
1971 - Anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C. aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.
1971 - The National Public Radio program "All Things Considered" made its debut.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of Britain.
1984 - Michael Dell founded Dell Computer Corp. while a student at the University of Texas in Austin.
1987 - The Miami Herald said its reporters had observed a young woman spending "Friday night and most of Saturday" at a Washington townhouse belonging to Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. (The woman was later identified as Donna Rice; the resulting controversy torpedoed Hart's presidential bid.)
1988 - The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule President Ronald Reagan's activities.
1999 - Kansas and Oklahoma were hit by an outbreak of more than 55 tornadoes, including one measured at F5 on the Fujita scale, resulting in 46 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
2001 - The United States, a member of the U.N. Human Rights Commission since its inception in 1947, lost its seat. (It was restored the following year.)
2003 - New Hampshire's state symbol, the granite "Old Man of the Mountain", collapsed in the state's Franconia Mountains.
2005 - Iraq's first democratically elected government was sworn in.
2006 - A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia rejected the death penalty for al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, deciding he should spend life in prison for his role in 9/11; as he was led from the courtroom, Moussaoui taunted, "America, you lost."
2007 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Virginia for the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the settlement of the Jamestown colony.
2007 - Astronaut Wally Schirra died at age 84.
2009 - Mexican President Felipe Calderon told state television that a nationwide shutdown and an aggressive informational campaign appeared to have helped curtail an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico.
2010 - Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad was apprehended aboard a flight preparing to depart New York for Dubai.
2015 - Two gunmen were shot and killed by a police officer in Garland, Texas, after they opened fire outside a purposely provocative contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
2016 - In a stunning triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race.
Birthdays
20 - Rachel Zegler (actress)
25 - Noah Munck (actor)
26 - Zoe De Grand Maison (atress)
34 - Michael Kiwanuka (singer)
35 - Pom Klementieff (actress)
35 - Poppy Delevingne (model)
37 - Cheryl Burke (dancer)
43 - Tanya Wright (actress)
44 - Eric Church (country singer)
46 - Christina Hendricks (actress)
46 - Willie Geist (TV personality)
46 - Marsha Stephanie-Blake (actress)
48 - Brad Martin (country singer)
51 - Bobby Cannavale (actor)
53 - Amy Ryan (actress)
53 - Shane Minor (country singer)
70 - Christopher Cross (singer)
75 - Greg Gumbel (sportscaster)
87 - Frankie Valli (singer)
88 - Alex Cord (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 3
1910 - The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is renamed the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
1936 - Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio made his major league debut with the New York Yankees.
1951 - Gil McDougald (New York Yankees) became the fifth player to get 6 RBIs in an inning.
1970 - The New York Knicks defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1977 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected running back Ricky Bell from USC with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1977 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1977 NFL Draft: DT - Mike Fultz (2nd round, New Orleans Saints); QB - Vince Ferragamo (4th round, Los Angeles Rams); LB - Ray Phillips (5th round, Cincinnati Bengals); DE - Ron Pruitt (6th round, Buffalo Bills); OT - Bob Lingenfelter (7th round, Cleveland Browns); and DB - Dave Butterfield (11th round, New York Jets).
1979 - Bobby Bonds of the Cleveland Indians becomes the second player in major league history with 300 career home runs and 300 stolen bases.
1979 - The Buffalo Bills select linebacker Tom Cousineau of Ohio State with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1979 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1979 NFL Draft: LB - George Andrews (1st round, 19th pick, Los Angeles Rams); OT - Kelvin Clark (1st round, 22nd pick, Denver Broncos); OG - Barney Cotton (3rd round, Cincinnati Bengals); RB - Rick Berns (3rd round, Tampa Bay Buccaneers); OG - Steve Lindquist (6th round, Miami Dolphins); LB - Lee Kunz (7th round, Chicago Bears); WR - Frank Lockett (10th round, Green Bay Packers); and DE - Randy Poeschl (11th round, Cleveland Browns).
1980 - Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants hit the 521st and final home run of his career.
1980 - Ferguson Jenkins of the Texas Rangers became the fourth player to win 100 games in both the American and National Leagues.
1986 - At the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory.
1986 - Don Mattingly (New York Yankees) became the 6th player to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game.
1992 - Gregg Olson (Baltimore Orioles) became the youngest player to record 100 saves. He was 25 years old.
1992 - Eddie Murray (New York Mets) became the 24th player to hit 400 home runs.
2007 - The Golden State Warriors upset the Dallas Mavericks in six games in the opening round of the Western Conference NBA playoffs; it was the first time in league history a No. 8 seed had eliminated a No. 1 seed in a seven-game series.
2011 - Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls, at age 22, became the youngest player ever named NBA MVP.
2018 - Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan becomes the first player in NFL history to earn $30 million per season after agreeing to a $150 million contract extension.
