History for May 3

History for May 3 - On-This-Day.com 

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."
• 1944 - Wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended in the U.S.
• 1979 - Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain's first female prime minister.
• 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.