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On This Day – May 3

May 3rd, 2007-8:00 am by sub2change

From BrainyHistory

1494 Columbus discovers Jamaica

1765 1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia

1802 Washington D.C. incorporates as a city

1919 America’s 1st passenger flight

1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax

1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight

1941 German air raid on Liverpool

1944 Meat rationing ends in U.S.

1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole

1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University

1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days

1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations

1973 Chicago’s Sears Tower, world’s tallest building (at the time) finished

1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR

1991 356th and final episode of Dallas

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