TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Tuesday, May 3, the 124th day of 2016. There are 242 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History

On May 3, 1791, the Commonwealth of PolandLithuania adopted a constitution.

On this date

1515 — Pope Leo X promulgated the bull “Inter sollicitudines” allowing the Catholic Church to review and censor books. 1765 — The first school of medicine in the American colonies, the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia (now the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania), was founded. 1802 — Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city. 1975 — America’s oldest operational aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, was commissioned. 1986 — In NASA’s first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control. 1999 — Some 70 tornadoes roared across Oklahoma and Kansas, killing 46 people and injuring hundreds.

One year ago Today’s Birthdays

Two gunmen were shot and killed by a police officer in Garland, Texas, after they opened fire outside a purposely provocative contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Movie historian and TV host Robert Osborne is 84. Actor Alex Cord is 83. Singer Frankie Valli is 82. Sports announcer Greg Gumbel is 70. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is 67. Country singer Shane Minor is 48. Actress Amy Ryan is 48. Actor Bobby Cannavale is 46. Music and film producer-actor Damon Dash is 45. Countryrock musician John Neff (Drive-By Truckers) is 45. Country singer Brad Martin is 43. TV personality Willie Geist (TV: “Today”) is 41. Actress Christina Hendricks is 41.

Thought for today ‘Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.’ May Sarton American poet (1912-1995)