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March 3
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'''
March 3''' is the 62
nd day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (63
rd in
leap years). There are 303 days remaining.
Events
*
1431 -
Pope Eugenius IV Eugenius IV becomes
Pope.
*
1585 - The
Olympic Teathre, designed by
Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in
Vicenza
*
1639 - The early settlement of
Taunton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.
*
1791 - The
United States Mint is created by the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress.
*
1820 - The
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress passes the
Missouri Compromise.
*
1833 - According to
Akilattirattu Ammanai Ayya Vaikundar arises from the sea as
avatar of
Narayana at
Thiruchendur.
*
1845 -
Florida is admitted as the 27th
U.S. state.
*
1845 - For the first time the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential
veto.
*
1849 -
Minnesota Territory organizes as a
political division of the United States.
*
1849 - The
United States Department of the Interior is established.
*
1849 - The
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress passes the
Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of
gold coins.
*
1857 -
France and the
United Kingdom declare
Second Opium War war on
China.
*
1861 - the Emancipation Manifesto is signed and published in
Russia, freeing serfs.
*
1863 -
Idaho Territory organizes as a
political division of the United States.
*
1865 - The
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress authorizes formation of the
Freedmen's Bureau.
* 1865 - Opening of the
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the
HSBC HSBC Group.
*
1873 -
Censorship: The
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress enacts the
Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
*
1875 - The first ever organized indoor game of
ice hockey is played in
Montreal, as recorded in ''
The Montreal Gazette''.
*
1877 -
Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th
President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on
March 5).
*
1878 -
Bulgaria regains its independence from
Ottoman Empire.
*
1879 - The
United States Geological Survey is created.
*
1885 - The
American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in
New York State.
*
1891 - The
Penalty Kick (football) Penalty Spot Kick rule in
Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season
*
1904 - Kaiser
Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a
sound recording of a political document, using
Thomas Edison's cylinder.
*
1905 -
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the
Duma).
*
1910 -
Rockefeller Foundation:
J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a
philanthropy philanthropist.
*
1913 - Establishment of the first football club in
Bulgaria - Ticha, now known as PFC "Cherno More".
*
1915 -
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA, the predecessor of
NASA founded.
*
1918 -
Germany,
Austria and
Russia sign the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in
World War I, and leading to the independence of
Finland,
Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania and
Poland.
*
1923 - ''
TIME'' magazine is published for the first time.
*
1931 - The
United States officially adopts "
The Star-Spangled Banner" as its national anthem.
*
1933 -
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.
*
1938 -
Glenn Cunningham (runner) Glenn Cunningham breaks the world record for the indoor
mile run by completing the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.
* 1938 -
Petroleum Oil is discovered in
Saudi Arabia.
*
1939 - In
Mumbai,
Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in
India.
*
1940 - Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the
Left Party (Sweden) communist newspaper ''Norrskensflamman'' in
Luleå,
Sweden.
*
1942 -
World War II: Ten
Japanese warplanes raid the town of
Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
*
1943 -
World War II: In
London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at
Bethnal Green tube station.
*
1944 - The
Order of Nakhimov and
Order of Ushakov were instituted in
USSR as the highest naval awards.
*
1945 -
World War II: Previously neutral
Finland declares war on the
Axis powers.
*
1949 - The
Tucker automobile Tucker Automobile Corporation folds.
*
1953 - A
Canadian Pacific
Comet Jet crashes in
Karachi,
Pakistan killing 11.
*
1955 -
Elvis Presley appears on
television for the first time.
*
1957 - In
Frankfurt.
Germany,
Corry Brokken wins the second
Eurovision Song Contest for the
Netherlands singing "Net als toen" (Like it used to be).
*
1957 - Cypriot liberation fighter Gregoris Afxentiou is killed, while fighting against British troops, burnt alive in a cave near the Machera Monastery, refusing to surrender.
*
1958 -
Nuri as-Said becomes the
List of Prime Ministers of Iraq prime minister of
Iraq for the 14th time.
*
1959 - The
San Francisco Giants officially name their new stadium
Candlestick Park.
*
1961 -
Hassan II of Morocco Hassan II becomes King of
Morocco.
*
1966 - A
Great Britain British Overseas Airways
Boeing 707 flies into a mountain wave after the captain decides to give the passengers a close-up view of
Mt. Fuji. All 124 people aboard are killed.
*
1969 -
Apollo program:
NASA launches
Apollo 9 to test the
lunar module.
* 1969 - In a
Los Angeles, California court,
Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy.
*
1971 - Beginning of
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and
India's official entry to the
Bangladesh Liberation War in support of
Mukti Bahini
*
1972 - The
space probe ''
Pioneer X'' is launched by
NASA.
*
1973 - Presidents Rule introduced in the
Indian state of
Orissa.
*
1974 - A Turkish
DC-10 crashes at
Ermenonville near
Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
*
1974 -
Roman Catholic and
Lutheran officials reach an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one
Communion (Christian) communion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the
Reformation.
*
1976 -
Fleetwood Mac records ''
Rumours (album) Rumours'', which will be a blockbuster album in
1977.
*
1985 -
Censorship:
Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to
Huggies Diapers, claiming that the
television ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and
porn."
*
1991 - An amateur video captures the beating of
Rodney King by
Los Angeles, California Los Angeles police officers.
*
1995 - In
Somalia, the
United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.
*
1997 - The
World's tallest structures tallest free-standing structure in the
Southern Hemisphere,
Sky Tower in downtown
Auckland,
New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
*
1999 -
LaGrand case: The State of
Arizona executes
Walter LaGrand, a
Germany German despite German legal action in the
International Court of Justice.
*
1999 -
Bertrand Piccard and
Brian Jones begin their successful attempt to circumnavigate the world in a
hot air balloon without stopping.
*
2001 - A
U.S. Air Force Air Force Materiel Command Materiel Command C-23 Sherpa transport crashes during stormy weather in the U.S. state of
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia, killing 21.
*
2002 - Citizens of
Switzerland narrowly vote in favour of their country becoming a member of the
United Nations.
*
2004 -
Belgian brewer
Interbrew and
Brazilian rival
AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that formed
InBev, the world's largest brewer.
*
2005 -
Rochfort Bridge massacre: James Roszko murders four
Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in
Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since
1885 and the
North-West Rebellion.
*
2005 -
Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refuelling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.
*
2005 - The
Cargo ship freighter M/V Karen Danielsen, crashes into part of the
Great Belt Bridge of
Denmark, 800
metre m from
Funen. All traffic across the bridge stops, effectively separating
Denmark in two.
Births
*
1455 - King
John II of Portugal (d.
1495)
*
1520 -
Matthias Flacius, Croatian protestant reformer (d.
1575)
*
1583 -
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d.
1648)
*
1589 -
Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (d.
1676)
*
1606 -
Edmund Waller, British poet (d.
1687)
*
1652 -
Thomas Otway, British dramatist (d.
1685)
*
1800 -
Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d.
1862)
*
1805 -
Jonas Furrer, first
President of the Swiss Confederation, (d.
1861)
*
1831 -
George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, (d.
1897)
*
1839 -
Jamshedji Tata, Indian industrialist (d.
1904)
*
1845 -
Georg Cantor, German mathematician, (d.
1918)
*
1847 -
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d.
1922)
*
1860 -
Monte Ward, Baseball player (d.
1925)
*
1863 -
Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d.
1947)
*
1873 -
William Green, American labor union leader (d.
1952)
*
1886 -
Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d.
1914)
* 1886 -
Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d.
1968)
*
1890 -
Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d.
1939)
*
1893 -
Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d.
1998)
*
1895 -
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1973)
* 1895 -
Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (d.
1993)
*
1911 -
Jean Harlow, American actress (d.
1937)
*
1918 -
Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1918 -
Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d.
2000)
*
1920 -
Julius Boros, American golfer (d.
1994)
* 1920 -
James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d.
2005)
* 1920 -
Ronald Searle, British illustrator
*
1922 -
Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer
*
1923 -
Barney Martin, American actor
* 1923 -
Doc Watson, American musician
*
1926 -
Lys Assia, Swiss singer
* 1926 -
Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate
* 1926 -
James Merrill, American poet (d.
1995)
*
1930 -
Heiner Geißler, German politician
* 1930 -
Ion Iliescu,
President of Romania
*
1933 -
Lee Radziwill, American fashion executive
*
1937 -
Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d.
1968)
*
1940 -
Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
* 1940 -
Perry Ellis, fashion designer (d.
1986)
*
1945 -
George Miller, Australian film director
*
1946 -
John Virgo, English snooker player
*
1947 -
Jennifer Warnes, American singer and songwriter
*
1949 -
Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
* 1949 -
Gloria Hendry, American actress
*
1950 -
Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and comedian
*
1953 -
Robyn Hitchcock, British musician
* 1953 -
Zico, Brazilian footballer
*
1955 -
Andy Breckman, American comedian and radio personality
*
1958 -
Miranda Richardson, British actress
*
1959 -
Ira Glass, American radio host
*
1962 -
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete
* 1962 -
Herschel Walker, American football player
*
1966 -
Tone-Loc, American musician
*
1968 -
Brian Leetch, American
ice hockey player
*
1970 -
Julie Bowen, American actress
*
1973 -
Victoria Zdrok, Ukrainian model
*
1974 -
David Faustino, American actor
*
1977 -
Ronan Keating, Irish singer
*
1981 -
Lil' Flip, American rapper
* 1981 -
Young Buck, American rapper
*
1982 -
Jessica Biel, American actress
*
1985 -
Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
*
1986 -
Stacie Orrico, American singer
Deaths
*
561 -
Pope Pelagius I
*
1111 -
Bohemund I of Antioch Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch
*
1239 -
Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b.
1187)
*
1459 -
Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b.
1397)
*
1554 -
John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (b.
1503)
*
1703 -
Robert Hooke, English scientist (b.
1635)
*
1706 -
Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b.
1653)
*
1707 -
Aurangzeb,
Mughal Emperor of India (b.
1618)
*
1717 -
Pierre Allix, French protestant pastor (b.
1641)
*
1744 -
Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist
*
1765 -
William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b.
1687)
*
1768 -
Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (b.
1686)
*
1792 -
Robert Adam, Scottish architect (b.
1728)
*
1850 -
Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b.
1806)
*
1927 -
Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b.
1878)
*
1932 -
Eugen d'Albert, German composer (b.
1864)
*
1937 -
Amelia Earhart, American pilot (disappeared) (b.
1897)
*
1943 -
George Thompson (cricketer) George Thompson, English cricketer (b.
1877)
*
1959 -
Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b.
1906)
*
1961 -
Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b.
1887)
*
1966 -
William Frawley, American actor (b.
1887)
* 1966 -
Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b.
1870)
* 1966 -
Alice Pearce, American actress (b.
1917)
*
1982 -
Georges Perec, French writer (b.
1936)
*
1983 -
Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b.
1907)
* 1983 -
Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b.
1905)
*
1987 -
Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (b.
1913)
*
1988 -
Sewall Wright, American biologist (b.
1889)
*
1990 -
Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur) Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b.
1912)
*
1991 -
Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b.
1895)
*
1993 -
Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b.
1910)
* 1993 -
Albert Sabin, Polish-born medical researcher (b.
1906)
*
1995 -
Howard W. Hunter, president of
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1907)
*
1996 -
Marguerite Duras, French writer (b.
1914)
* 1996 -
John Cardinal Krol, American Catholic clergyman (b.
1910)
*
1998 -
Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (b.
1915)
*
1999 -
Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1904)
*
2001 -
Louis Edmonds, American actor (b.
1923)
*
2002 -
Harlan Howard, American musician (b.
1927)
* 2003 -
Horst Buchholz, German actor (b.
1933)
* 2003 -
Peter Smithson, English architect (b.
1923)
* 2003 -
Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (b.
1904)
*
2005 -
Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist (b.
1928)
* 2005 -
Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach (b.
1928)
*
2006 -
Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b.
1923)
Holidays and observances
*
Hinamatsuri -
Japanese celebration day for girls.
*
Malawi -
Martyr's Day.
*
Bulgaria -
Liberation Day.
External Links
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3rd March- Bulgaria celebrates Liberty from the Ottoman yoke
-
BBC: On This Day
-
''The New York Times'': On This Day
-
On This Day in Canada
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March 2 -
March 4 -
February 3 -
April 3 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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