3 May 07 - Thursday
Sgt Mead
19-- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
1903 Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) Tacoma WA, crooner/actor
(White Christmas, Going My Way)
1920 Sugar Ray Robinson [Walter Smith] middleweight/welterweight boxer (champion)
1928 James Brown Augusta GA, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants)
1936 Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey] Madras India, singer
(After The Lovin', Release Me, Quando Quando Quando)
1944 Peter Staples rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1946 Greg Gumbel sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
1951 Christopher Cross [Geppert] San Antonio TX, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
1953 Bruce Hall Champaign IL, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon)
1955 Steve Jones English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy)
1494 Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan,
the School of Medicine belonged to the College of Philadelphia
(now the University of Pennsylvania).
1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city
1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1851 Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die
1916 Pádraic Pearse Irish nationalist, executed by British firing squad
1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1926 Napoleon V Bonaparte French pretender to the throne, dies at 63
1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1936 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
1982 Hugh Beaumont actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
1989 Christine Jorgensen 1st transsexual, dies at 62
1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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