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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 3, 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, "Gone With the Wind."
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• On this date:
• In 1791, Poland adopted a national constitution.
• In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
• In 1911, Wisconsin Gov. Francis E. McGovern signed the first U.S. workers' compensation law to withstand constitutional review.
• In 1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.
• In 1933, Nellie T. Ross became the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
• In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.
• In 1952, the Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time on CBS; the winner was Hill Gail.
• In 1960, the Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical "The Fantasticks" began a nearly 42-year run at New York's Sullivan Street Playhouse.
• In 1971, the National Public Radio program "All Things Considered" made its debut.
• In 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain's first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.
• In 1986, in NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.
• In 1987, The Miami Herald said its reporters had observed a young woman spending "Friday night and most of Saturday" at a Washington townhouse belonging to Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. (The woman was later identified as Donna Rice; the scandal torpedoed Hart's presidential bid.)
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• Ten years ago: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston backed out of a settlement with 86 people who had accused defrocked priest John Geoghan (GAY'-gun) of child molestation, saying the deal was becoming too expensive. (The archdiocese later agreed to a $10 million settlement; Geoghan was murdered by a fellow prison inmate in August 2003.) Eight inmates died in a fire at the Mitchell County, N.C., jail. Pipe bombs exploded in six mailboxes in rural parts of Illinois and Iowa, in

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