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Fast facts: The first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby was Diane Crump, who rode on May 2, 1970 The first official baseball hat was made of straw. The first woman to play golf at St. Andrew's Golf Club in Scotland was Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1552. She was the club's founder. A sport practiced in ancient China consisted of placing two angry male quails in a large glass bowl and watching as the creatures clawed each other to death A top fuel dragster can accelerate from 0 to 100 miles an hour in 0.8 seconds and from 0 to 330 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds using 10 gallons of nitro-methane. According to manufacturer Spalding, the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces. About 30 percent of NBA players sport tattoos, compared to about 4 percent of the United States' total population.

 

On this date: In 678, Donus ended his reign as Pope. In 1898, President McKinley asked for a Spanish-American War declaration. In 1921, Iowa imposed the first state cigarette tax. In 1945, U.S. soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. In 1966, Jack Nicklaus became the first man to win consecutive Masters tournaments In 1981, Ronald Reagan arrived home from the hospital after being shot by John Hinkley.

 

Quotable... "The quantity of nicotine could be potentially dangerous to a small child." - FDA attorney David Horowitz about the administration ruling that nicotine lollipops are illegal.