TODAY IN HISTORY

1802

Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.

1937

Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, “Gone with the Wind.”

1948

The Supreme Court, in Shelley v. Kraemer, ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.

1979

Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain’s first female prime minister.

2006

A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; as he was led from the courtroom, Moussaoui taunted, “America, you lost.”

2016

Donald Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race.

Birthdays

Singer Frankie Valli is 88. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, is 79. Sports announcer Greg Gumbel is 76. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is 73. Pop singer Mary Hopkin is 72. Singer Christopher Cross is 71. Country singer Shane Minor is 54.

Actor Amy Ryan is 54. Music and film produceractor Damon Dash is 51. Country-rock musician John Neff is 51. Actor Marsha Stephanie-Blake is 47. Actor Christina Hendricks is 47.