Today in History Today is Monday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2021. There are 242 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court, in Shelley v. Kraemer, ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to Blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable. On this date: In 1765, the first school of medicine in the American colonies, the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia (now the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania), was founded. In 1802, Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city. In 1916, Irish nationalists Padraic Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed by a British firing squad; they were among 16 people put to death for their roles in the Easter Rising. In 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, “Gone with the Wind.” In 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain’s first female prime minister as the...
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