On May 3, 1937, Margaret Mitchell received a phone call that would change her life in ways she had never wanted. Her novel, Gone with the Wind, had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize
On May 3, 1802, the United States Congress granted the City of Washington its first municipal charter. With that act, the urban core of the District of Columbia was formally incorp
On May 3, 1791, the parliament of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth gathered in the Royal Castle in Warsaw and voted to adopt a document that changed the course of constitutional
On May 3, 1469, a boy was born in the Santo Spirito district of Florence, Italy, who would grow up to write the most controversial and enduring handbook on political power in the h
At 11:35 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama walked to a podium in the East Room of the White House and delivered what many Americans would later call
At 3:12 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time on May 2, 1952, a sleek silver aircraft bearing the registration G-ALYP burst through the morning mist at London Airport. The four Ghost jet engine
On May 2, 1945, General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the Berlin Defence Area, crossed the front lines at 6:00 a.m. and formally surrendered the city to Lieutenant General Vasily
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