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.