Today in history

May 3

1919
Pete Seeger is born in New York City.

1936
Through May 12; British General Strike, an outgrowth of unsatisfied claims of coal miners, evolved into a test of powers between workers and the government.
1943
US: War resistor Igal Roodenko declares his refusal to work until the hunger strike of Stanley Murphy & Lou Taylor in Danbury Prison was ended. Four days later it was, & he went back to his duties “until the next time.”
1963
In Birmingham, Alabama, “Bull” Connor orders fire houses & dogs turned on children marching out of the 16th St Baptist Church to keep them from marching out of the “Negro section”.
1968
Students take over Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), demanding African-oriented curriculum.

1971
The Nixon administration ordered the arrest of nearly 13,000 anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe who began four days of demonstrations in Washington, DC, on the first. They aimed at shutting down the nation’s capital by disrupting morning rush-hour traffic and other forms of non-violent direct action, skirmishing with metropolitan police and Federal troops throughout large areas of the capital. The slogan of the Mayday tribe: “If the government won’t stop the war, we’ll stop the government.”

1971
The first broadcast of National Public Radio’s evening news and public affairs program, “All Things Considered,” was aired on NPR affiliates around the country.

1980
Sixty-thousand marched on the Pentagon to urge the end to U.S. military involvement in El Salvador.