TMN Staff<\/p>\n
May 3, there are 242 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
1937<\/strong> 1948<\/strong> 1979<\/strong> 1986<\/strong> 1999<\/strong> 2001<\/strong> 2003<\/strong> <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n 1429<\/strong>– Niccolo Machiavelli, Author and statesmen<\/p>\n 1898<\/strong>– Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong>– Pete Seeger, Folk Singer<\/p>\n 1920<\/strong>– Sugar Ray Robinson, Boxer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN Staff May 3, there are 242 days left in the year. 1937 Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26754,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751\/revisions\/26754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMargaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nThe Shelley v. Kraemer<\/em> Supreme Court decision stated that it is unconstitutional for a court to enforce a restrictive covenant which prevents people of a certain race from owning or occupying property.<\/p>\n
\nMargaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England.<\/p>\n
\nAt the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory.<\/p>\n
\nKansas and Oklahoma were hit by an outbreak of more than 55 tornadoes, including one measured at F5 on the Fujita scale.<\/p>\n
\nThe United States, a member of the UN Human Rights Commission since its inception, lost its seat. It would be restored the following year.<\/p>\n
\nNew Hampshire\u2019s symbol, the granite Old Man of the Mountain, collapsed in the state\u2019s Franconia Mountains.<\/p>\n