Today is Thursday, May 3, the 124th day of 2012. There are 242 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight:
On May 3, 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, “Gone With the Wind.”
On this date:
In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated.
In 1911, Wisconsin Gov. Francis McGovern signed the first U.S. workers’ compensation law to withstand constitutional review.
In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.
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