On This Day – May 3
May 3rd, 2007-8:00 am by sub2changeFrom 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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