History for May 3

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Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - Italian philosopher/writer.

• 1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
• 1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind."
• 1979 - Maraget Thatcher was choses to become Britain's first female prime minister.
• 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.
• 1987 - The Miami Herald reported that Donna Rice had been spending "Friday night and most of Saturday" at Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart's Washington townhouse. The resulting controversy ended Hart's presidential bid.
• 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.
• 2016 - Donald Trump, then a political outsider, essentially clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a victory in Indiana.