May 3rd
Today in America's Present Past
1724 | Educator John Leverett the Younger died.
1765 | The first North American medical college opens in Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).
1779 | Educator John Winthrop died.
1802 | Washington, D.C., is incorporated as the Capital of the United States.
1845 | The start of the Milwaukee “Bridge War.”
1861 | Civil War: General Scott presents his Anaconda Plan for the North against the South.
1861 | Civil War: Lincoln asks the nation for 42,000 more soldiers and 18,000 sailors.
1898 | Activist Septima Poinsette Clark was born.
1903 | Entertainer Bing Crosby was born.
1919 | Musician Pete Seeger was born.
1921 | Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson was born.
1923 | The first nonstop North American transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) was completed
1926 | Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
1933 | Entertainer James Brown was born.
1937 | Margaret Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
1940 | Entrepreneur David Koch was born.
1940 | Officer Henry Ossian Flipper died.
1943 | Upton Sinclair was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
1944 | WWII: Domestic “meat rationing” ends.
1948 | TV: CBS Evening News debuts.
1954 | Charles Lindbergh was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
1971 | May Day protests in Washington, D.C.
1976 | Saul Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
1978 | First “E-mail spam” sent by Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 | POTUS: Republican President Reagan starts a 5-minute weekly radio broadcast.
2014 | Economist Gary Becker died.