Today’s Highlights

On May 3, 1999, the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado struck the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, causing 41 deaths and nearly 600 injuries; the tornado’s top wind speed of 321 miles per hour was the highest ever recorded on earth.

On this date

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

1948: The Supreme Court, in Shelley v. Kraemer, ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to Blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.

1979: The Conservative Party ousted the incumbent Labour government in British parliamentary elections; Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher would become the first female U.K. Prime Minister the following day.

1986: Aboard the longshot horse Ferdinand, Bill Shoemaker became the oldest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby at age 54.

2003: The “Old Man of the Mountain,” a 40-foot-tall granite outcropping in Franconia, N.H. that bore the resemblance of a human face in profile, collapsed despite decades of preservation efforts.

2016: In a stunning triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory in the Indiana primary election that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race.

Today’s birthdays

Singer Frankie Valli is 91. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, is 82. Singer Christopher Cross is 74. Actor Amy Ryan is 57. Actor Bobby Cannavale is 55. Music executive-entrepreneur Damon Dash is 54. Actor Christina Hendricks is 50. Actor Dule Hill is 50. Country musician Eric Church is 48.