TODAY IN HISTORY
On May 3, 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, “Gone with the Wind.”
In 1960, the Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical “The Fantasticks”
began a nearly 42-year run at New York’s Sullivan Street Playhouse.
In 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain’s first female prime minister.
In 2011, Chicago’s Derrick Rose became at age 22 the NBA’s youngest MVP.
In 2016, political outsider
Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race.
In 2018, a federal grand jury in Detroit indicted former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn on charges stemming from the company’s diesel emissions cheating scandal.