History for May 3

History for May 3 - On-This-Day.com:
Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - Italian philosopher/writer , Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch, Golda Meyerson) 1898 - Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Pete Seeger 1919 - Folk singer 



James Brown (James Joseph Brown, Jr.) 1928 - Singer, Frankie Valli 1934 - Musician (The Four Seasons), Christopher Cross (Christopher Charles Geppert) 1951 - Singer, songwriter 


1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city. 


1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax. 



1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind." 


1944 - Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University. 


1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable. 


1971 - National Public Radio broadcast for the first time. 


1986 - In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff. Safety officers destroyed it by remote control. 


1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King. 


1999 - Mark Manes, at age 22, was arrested for supplying a gun to Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold, who later killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado.