Today is Saturday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2025. There are 242 days a year.
Today in history:
On May 3, 2003, the “old mountain man”, an outcrop granite 40 feet high in Franconia, NH which bore the resemblance of a human face in profile, collapsed despite decades of preservation efforts.
Also on this date:
In 1802, Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.
In 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, “Gone with the Wind”.
In 1948, the Supreme Court, in Shelley c. Kraemer judged that alliances prohibiting the sale of real estate in blacks or members of other racial groups were legally inapplicable.
In 1979, the Conservative Party ousted the outgoing Labor government in the British parliamentary elections; The conservative chief Margaret Thatcher would become the first woman Prime Minister British the next day.
In 1986, aboard the Longshot Ferdinand horse, Bill Shoemaker became the oldest jockey to win Kentucky Derby at the age of 54.
In 1999, the Tornado by Bridge Creek – Moore struck the metropolitan region of Oklahoma City, causing 41 deaths and nearly 600 injuries; The upper wind speed of the 321 miles tornado per hour (517 km / hour) was the highest ever recorded on earth.
In 2015, two armed men were killed by a Swat team in Garland, Texas, after opening fire outside a deliberately provocative competition for cartoons from the Prophet Muhammad.
In 2016, in an astonishing triumph for a political foreigner, Donald Trump practically won the republican presidential appointment with a resounding victory in the primary elections of Indiana which eliminated the Rival Ted Cruz of the race.
In 2018, a great federal jury of Detroit charged the former CEO of Volkswagen, Martin Winterkorn, for charges from the Diesel Diesel program scandal. (Under the German Constitution, he could not be extradited to the United States to face accusations.)
Today’s birthdays:
- The singer Frankie Valli is 91 years old.
- Senator Jim Risch, R-Assaho, is 82 years old.
- Senator Ron Wyden, D-ear., A is 76.
- Singer Christopher Cross is 74 years old.
- Actor Amy Ryan is 57 years old.
- The actor Bobby Cannavale (Ka-Nuh-Val’ee) is 55 years old.
- The entrepreneur in musical direction Damon Dash is 54 years old.
- The actor Christina Hendricks is 50 years old.
- The actor Dule (DOO-LAY ‘) Hill is 50 years old.
- Country musician Eric Church is 48 years old.
- Golfer Brooks Koepka is 35 years old.
- Actor Rachel Zegler is 24 years old.
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