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.
- 1959 – The first Grammy Awards are announced.
- 1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protestors. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing newfound attention to the 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.
- 1948 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
- 1951 - The Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- 1952 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the North Pole.
- 1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles.
- 1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.
- 1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
- 1963 - The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protestors. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing newfound attention to the 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.
- 2001 - The United States loses its seat on the 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.