History for May 3

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Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch, Golda Meyerson) 1898 - Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel

• 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."
• 1952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.
• 1966 - The game "Twister" was featured on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
• 1971 - James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, was caught in a jailbreak attempt.
• 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.