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

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. May 03 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Pete Seeger READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1979 Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of Britain READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   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. 1815: The Congress Kingdom of Poland was created by the Congress of Vienna as part of the political settlement at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1903 Bing Crosby American singer, actor, and songwriter 1933 James Brown American singer 1469 Niccolò Machiavelli Italian statesman and writer 1921 Sugar Ray Robinson American boxer 1919 Pete Seeger American singer 1906 Mary Astor American actress SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help