The “Old Man of the Mountain,” a 40-foot-tall granite outcropping in Franconia, N.H. that bore the resemblance of a human face in profile, collapsed despite decades of preservation efforts.
Today is Saturday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2025. There are 242 days left in the year.
On May 3, 2003, the “Old Man of the Mountain,” a 40-foot-tall granite outcropping in Franconia, N.H. that bore the resemblance of a human face in profile, collapsed despite decades of preservation efforts.
In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
In 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, “Gone with the Wind.”
In 1948, the Supreme Court, in Shelley v.