Today In History For May 3rd

Today is Tuesday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2011. There are 242 days left in the year.

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

In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.

In 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.