On this day Aug. 3

1927 Pittsburgh honored Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly alone over the Atlantic from the U.S. to Europe.

1936 Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he took the 100-meter sprint.

1949 The National Basketball Association was formed as a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.

1958 The Urban Redevelopment Authority began final planning for the $15 million Chateau Street-West renewal project in the Manchester area of the North Side.

1972 The U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. (The U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)

1993 The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

2002 Former Steelers receiver John Stallworth and former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly, a native of East Brady, Clarion County, were inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame.

2019 A gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, leaving 22 people dead; prosecutors said Patrick Crusius targeted Mexicans in hopes of scaring Latinos into leaving the U.S., and that he had outlined the plot in a screed published online shortly before the attack. (Crusius has pleaded not guilty to state murder charges; he also faces federal hate crime and gun charges.)

Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).

— Compiled by Alyssa Brown Today’s birthdays: Singer Tony Bennett, 94. Actor Martin Sheen, 80. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, 79. Movie director John Landis, 70. Actor Michael Ealy, 47. NFL quarterback Tom Brady, 43. Olympic gold medal swimmer Ryan Lochte, 36. Thought for today: “Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.”