May 3

1695: Henri Pitot, discoverer of the pitot tube used for airspeed measurements, died. 1923: Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John Macready landed their Fokker T-2 at Rockwell Field, San Diego, CA, completing the first non-stop transcontinental flight (26 hours and 50 minutes). 1944: U.S. wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended. 1945: Allies arrested German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg. 1968: Surgeons conducted the UK's first heart transplant. 1973: The Sears Tower became the world's tallest building. 1999: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed above 11,000 for the first time. 2000: Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, declared bankruptcy. 2003: When dawn broke, the rocky visage of New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain was gone, having crumbled and fallen overnight. 2007: Astronaut Wally Schirra, the only man to fly in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spaceships, died.