Thursday, May 3

Good morning!

Today we will finish America, Story of US

Current Events
President repaid hush money, Giuliani says - NYT

Boys Scouts will drop boy in name - NYT

Today in History

• 1937

  Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind.

• 1948

  The Shelley v. Kraemer 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.

• 1979

  Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England.

• 1986

  At the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory.

• 1999

  Kansas and Oklahoma were hit by an outbreak of more than 55 tornadoes, including one measured at F5 on the Fujita scale.

• 2001

  The United States, a member of the UN Human Rights Commission since its inception, lost its seat. It would be restored the following year.

• 2003

  New Hampshire’s symbol, the granite Old Man of the Mountain, collapsed in the state’s Franconia Mountains.