Portal:United States/Anniversaries/May/May 3
- 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
- 1921 – West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
- 1933 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
- 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell (pictured), wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- Grammy Awardsare announced.
- Civil Rights Movement.
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- 2003 – New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
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Events
- 1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
- 1901 - Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
- 1921 - West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
- 1924 - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska. by Sam Beber.
- 1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
- 1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estateto blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
- General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- William P. Benedict land a plane at the North Pole.
- Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles.
- Grammy Awardsare announced.
- musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musicalof all time.
- Civil Rights Movement.
- 1973 - The Sears Tower in Chicago, now called the Willis Tower, is topped out as the world's tallest building.
- 1987 - A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
- 1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado killing 42 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.
- 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
- U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
- 2003 - New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
- 2006 - Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.