Wednesday, May 03, 2017

History for May 3

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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
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 Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith Jr.) 1921 - Boxer, James Brown (James Joseph Brown, Jr.) 1928 - Singer, Frankie Valli 1934 - Musician (The Four Seasons)
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 1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.
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 1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
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 1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind."
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 1944 - Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.
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1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.
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 1952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.
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 1966 - The game "Twister" was featured on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
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 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.
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