TUESDAY INHISTORY

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

Highlight in History:

On May 3, 1791, the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania adopted a constitution.

On this date:

In 1515, Pope Leo X promulgated the bull “Inter sollicitudines” allowing the Catholic Church to review and censor books.

In 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.

In 1802, Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city.

In 1945, during World War II, Allied forces recaptured Rangoon from the Japanese.

In 1975, America’s oldest operational aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, was commissioned.

In 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain’s first female prime minister.

In 1999, some 70 tornadoes roared across Oklahoma and Kansas, killing 46 people and injuring hundreds.

Ten years ago: A federal jury in Alexandria, Va., rejected the death penalty for al-Q aida conspirator Z ac ari as Moussaoui, deciding he should spend life in prison for his role in 9/11.

Five years ago: The White House said that Osama bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALs burst into his room a this Pakistan compound and shot him to death, a change in the official account that raised questions about whether the U.S. ever planned to capture the terrorist leader alive.

One year ago: 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.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie historian and TV-host Robert Osborne is 84. Actor Alex Cord is 83. Sports announcer Greg Gumbel is 70. Actress Amy Ryan is 48.

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 (born this date in 1912, died in 1995).