On This Day for May 3 - Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of Britain, Pete Seeger is featured, and more

Created: 2020-05-03 10:03 Updated: 2020-05-03 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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May 03

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Pete Seeger

FEATURED EVENT

1979

Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of Britain

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2016: A wildfire forced the evacuation of Fort McMurray, Alberta—the capital of Canada's tar sand industry—and the surrounding area; ultimately more than 80,000 people fled the blaze, which caused billions of dollars in losses.

1937: American author Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her enormously popular novel Gone with the Wind, which was made into an Academy Award-winning motion picture two years later.

1903: American singer, actor, and songwriter Bing Crosby was born in Tacoma, Washington.

1898: Golda Meir, a founder and the fourth prime minister (1969–74) of Israel, was born in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.

1996: At the first formal review of the 1980 Geneva Convention on Inhumane Weapons, the signatories agreed to curtail the use of land mines over the next decade.