3 May 1937
On this date in 1937…
Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her Southern opus, Gone with the Wind.
Other Years:
- 1568 – French forces slaughtered hundreds of Spanish and their Indian allies in Florida.
- 1802 – Washington, DC, was incorporated.
- 1863 – The second Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
- 1864 – Confederate troops unsuccessfully assaulted Federal positions on the third day of battle at Alexandria, Louisiana.
- 1901 – Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida.
- 1921 – Western Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
- 1933 – Nellie Ross of St. Joseph, Missouri took over as the first woman director of the U.S. Mint.
- 1971 – Anti-Vietnam War protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the U.S. capital.
- 1971 – James Earl Ray, convicted of the Martin Luther King assassination, failed in a jailbreak attempt.
- 1988 – More than 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine was seized at Tarpon Springs Florida.
- 2006 – Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia for his part in the 9-11 terror plot.
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