May 3, in history:
In 1469, Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian politician, writer, historian and philosopher, was born. The renaissance diplomat is best known for his 1513 treatise, The Prince, in which an “ends justify the means” idea of politics employs being sneaky, cunning, and having no moral code. Today he is often called the father of modern political philosophy.
In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
In 1921, West Virginia imposed the first State Sales Tax.
In 1937, Margaret Mitchell s novel Gone with the Wind won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
In 1952, the first landing of an airplane at the North Pole occurred.
In 1960, the Anne Frank House museum opened in Amsterdam, Netherlands.