Today is Wednesday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2017. There are 242 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Singer Frankie Valli is 83. Sports announcer Greg Gumbel is 71. Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, is 68. Singer Christopher Cross is 66. Actress Amy Ryan is 49. Actor Bobby Cannavale is 47. TV personality Willie Geist is 42. Actress Christina Hendricks is 42. Country singer Eric Church is 40. Dancer Cheryl Burke is 33. Soul singer Michael Kiwanuka is 30.

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

In 1916, Irish nationalists Padraic Pearse, Thomas Clarke, and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a British firing squad; they were among 16 people put to death for their roles in the Easter Rising.

In 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, ‘‘Gone with the Wind.’’

In 1952, the Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time; the winner was Hill Gail, ridden by Eddie Arcaro.

In 1960, the Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical ‘‘The Fantasticks’’ began a nearly 42-year run in New York.

In 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain’s first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.

In 1987, The Miami Herald reported that a young woman spending ‘‘Friday night and most of Saturday’’ at a Washington townhouse belonging to Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. (The woman was later identified as Donna Rice; the controversy torpedoed Hart’s presidential bid.)

In 2012, US officials published online a selection of letters from Osama bin Laden’s last hideaway; the documents portrayed a network that was inept and under siege.

Last year, in a stunning triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race.