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| March 3rd, 2007 (March 03 2007) | Death | Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian catoonist, creater of La Linea. | |
| March 3rd, 2006 (March 03 2006) | Death | Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (born in 1923) | |
| March 3rd, 2006 (March 03 2006) | Death | William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (born in 1914) | |
| March 3rd, 2005 (March 03 2005) | Event | Mayerthorpe Incident: 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. | |
| March 3rd, 2005 (March 03 2005) | Event | Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refuelinga journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes. | |
| March 3rd, 2005 (March 03 2005) | Death | Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist (born in 1928) | |
| March 3rd, 2004 (March 03 2004) | Event | Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that formed InBev, the world s largest brewer. | |
| March 3rd, 2004 (March 03 2004) | Death | Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (born in 1958) | |
| March 3rd, 2003 (March 03 2003) | Death | Horst Buchholz, German actor (born in 1933) | |
| March 3rd, 2003 (March 03 2003) | Death | Luis Marden, American photojournalist (born in 1913) | |
| March 3rd, 2003 (March 03 2003) | Death | Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (born in 1904) | |
| March 3rd, 2003 (March 03 2003) | Death | Peter Smithson, English architect (born in 1923) | |
| March 3rd, 2002 (March 03 2002) | Event | Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations. | |
| March 3rd, 2002 (March 03 2002) | Death | Harlan Howard, American musician (born in 1927) | |
| March 3rd, 2001 (March 03 2001) | Death | Louis Edmonds, American actor (born in 1923) | |
| March 3rd, 2000 (March 03 2000) | Death | Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (born in 1904) | |
| March 3rd, 1999 (March 03 1999) | Death | Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1904) | |
| March 3rd, 1998 (March 03 1998) | Death | Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (born in 1915) | |
| March 3rd, 1997 (March 03 1997) | Event | The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction. | |
| March 3rd, 1996 (March 03 1996) | Death | Marguerite Duras, French writer (born in 1914) | Marguerite Duras Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1996 (March 03 1996) | Death | John Cardinal Krol, American Catholic clergyman (born in 1910) | |
| March 3rd, 1995 (March 03 1995) | Death | Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born in 1907) | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1993 (March 03 1993) | Death | Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (born in 1910) | |
| March 3rd, 1993 (March 03 1993) | Death | Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist (born in 1903) | |
| March 3rd, 1993 (March 03 1993) | Death | Albert Sabin, Polish-born medical researcher (born in 1906) | |
| March 3rd, 1992 (March 03 1992) | Event | The nation of Bosnia was established. | |
| March 3rd, 1991 (March 03 1991) | Event | An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. | |
| March 3rd, 1991 (March 03 1991) | Event | In two concurring referendums: 74 % of the population of Latvia vote for independence from the Soviet Union, in Estonia83 %. | |
| March 3rd, 1991 (March 03 1991) | Event | United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25. | |
| March 3rd, 1991 (March 03 1991) | Death | Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (born in 1895) | |
| March 3rd, 1990 (March 03 1990) | Death | Gerard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (born in 1912) | |
| March 3rd, 1989 (March 03 1989) | Birth | Erica Morningstar, Canadian Swimmer, and record holder. | |
| March 3rd, 1988 (March 03 1988) | Death | Sewall Wright, American biologist (born in 1889) | |
| March 3rd, 1987 (March 03 1987) | Death | Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (born in 1913) | Danny Kaye Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1986 (March 03 1986) | Birth | Stacie Orrico, American singer | |
| March 3rd, 1985 (March 03 1985) | Event | Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures. | |
| March 3rd, 1985 (March 03 1985) | Event | 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." | |
| March 3rd, 1985 (March 03 1985) | Birth | Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer | |
| March 3rd, 1984 (March 03 1984) | Birth | Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player | |
| March 3rd, 1983 (March 03 1983) | Death | Herge, Belgian comics creator (born in 1907) | |
| March 3rd, 1983 (March 03 1983) | Death | Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (born in 1905) | Arthur Koestler Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1982 (March 03 1982) | Birth | Jessica Biel, American actress | |
| March 3rd, 1982 (March 03 1982) | Birth | Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| March 3rd, 1982 (March 03 1982) | Death | Georges Perec, French writer (born in 1936) | |
| March 3rd, 1981 (March 03 1981) | Birth | Dusty Dvoracek, American football player | |
| March 3rd, 1981 (March 03 1981) | Birth | Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress | |
| March 3rd, 1981 (March 03 1981) | Birth | Lil Flip, American rapper | |
| March 3rd, 1981 (March 03 1981) | Birth | Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer | |
| March 3rd, 1981 (March 03 1981) | Birth | Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress | |
| March 3rd, 1980 (March 03 1980) | Event | The USS Nautilus is stricken. | |
| March 3rd, 1980 (March 03 1980) | Birth | Mason Unck, American football player | |
| March 3rd, 1979 (March 03 1979) | Birth | Patrick Renna, American actor | |
| March 3rd, 1979 (March 03 1979) | Birth | Alex Zane, English comedian | |
| March 3rd, 1978 (March 03 1978) | Birth | Matt Diaz, American baseball player | |
| March 3rd, 1978 (March 03 1978) | Birth | Seomoon Tak, Korean singer | |
| March 3rd, 1977 (March 03 1977) | Birth | Ronan Keating, Irish singer | |
| March 3rd, 1977 (March 03 1977) | Birth | Stephane Robidas, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| March 3rd, 1976 (March 03 1976) | Event | 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. | |
| March 3rd, 1976 (March 03 1976) | Birth | Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer | |
| March 3rd, 1974 (March 03 1974) | Event | Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard. | |
| March 3rd, 1974 (March 03 1974) | Event | Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials reach an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation. | |
| March 3rd, 1974 (March 03 1974) | Birth | David Faustino, American actor | |
| March 3rd, 1974 (March 03 1974) | Birth | Paula Malai Ali,Malaysian-Bruneian TV Presenter and Actress | |
| March 3rd, 1973 (March 03 1973) | Birth | Romans Vainsteins, Latvian cyclist | |
| March 3rd, 1973 (March 03 1973) | Birth | Matthew Marsden, English actor and singer | |
| March 3rd, 1973 (March 03 1973) | Birth | Victoria Zdrok, Ukrainian model | |
| March 3rd, 1972 (March 03 1972) | Event | Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes in unexplained circumstances. | |
| March 3rd, 1972 (March 03 1972) | Birth | Darren Anderton, English footballer | |
| March 3rd, 1971 (March 03 1971) | Event | Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India s official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini. | |
| March 3rd, 1971 (March 03 1971) | Birth | Tyler Florence, chef, Food Network personality, & cookbook author | |
| March 3rd, 1970 (March 03 1970) | Birth | Julie Bowen, American actress | |
| March 3rd, 1970 (March 03 1970) | Birth | Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer | |
| March 3rd, 1969 (March 03 1969) | Event | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module. | |
| March 3rd, 1969 (March 03 1969) | Birth | Simon Whitlock, Australian Darts Player | |
| March 3rd, 1968 (March 03 1968) | Birth | Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player | |
| March 3rd, 1966 (March 03 1966) | Birth | Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor | |
| March 3rd, 1966 (March 03 1966) | Birth | Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius) | |
| March 3rd, 1966 (March 03 1966) | Birth | Tone Loc, American rapper and actor | |
| March 3rd, 1966 (March 03 1966) | Death | William Frawley, American actor (born in 1887) | |
| March 3rd, 1966 (March 03 1966) | Death | Alice Pearce, American actress (born in 1917) | |
| March 3rd, 1964 (March 03 1964) | Birth | Raul Alcala, Mexican cyclist | |
| March 3rd, 1964 (March 03 1964) | Birth | Laura Harring, Mexican-born American actress | |
| March 3rd, 1964 (March 03 1964) | Birth | Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys) | |
| March 3rd, 1963 (March 03 1963) | Birth | Sophia Aliberti, Greek actress and TV presenter | |
| March 3rd, 1962 (March 03 1962) | Birth | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete | |
| March 3rd, 1962 (March 03 1962) | Birth | Glen E. Friedman, American photographer and artist | |
| March 3rd, 1962 (March 03 1962) | Birth | Herschel Walker, American football player | |
| March 3rd, 1961 (March 03 1961) | Event | Hassan II becomes King of Morocco. | |
| March 3rd, 1961 (March 03 1961) | Birth | Perry McCarthy, English racing driver | |
| March 3rd, 1961 (March 03 1961) | Birth | Mary Page Keller, American actress | |
| March 3rd, 1961 (March 03 1961) | Birth | Knut N?rum, Norwegian comedian | |
| March 3rd, 1961 (March 03 1961) | Birth | Fatima Whitbread, English javelin thrower | |
| March 3rd, 1961 (March 03 1961) | Death | Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (born in 1887) | |
| March 3rd, 1960 (March 03 1960) | Birth | Neal Heaton, American baseball player | |
| March 3rd, 1960 (March 03 1960) | Birth | Colin Wells, English cricketer | |
| March 3rd, 1959 (March 03 1959) | Birth | Ira Glass, American radio host | |
| March 3rd, 1959 (March 03 1959) | Death | Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (born in 1906) | |
| March 3rd, 1958 (March 03 1958) | Event | Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time. | |
| March 3rd, 1958 (March 03 1958) | Birth | Miranda Richardson, British actress | |
| March 3rd, 1958 (March 03 1958) | Birth | Marc Silvestri, American comic book artist and publisher (Top Cow Productions) | |
| March 3rd, 1956 (March 03 1956) | Birth | Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer | |
| March 3rd, 1955 (March 03 1955) | Birth | Andy Breckman, American comedian and radio personality | |
| March 3rd, 1954 (March 03 1954) | Birth | Edouard Lock, Canadian dance choreographer (La La La Human Steps) | |
| March 3rd, 1953 (March 03 1953) | Event | A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11. | |
| March 3rd, 1953 (March 03 1953) | Birth | Robyn Hitchcock, British musician | |
| March 3rd, 1953 (March 03 1953) | Birth | Zico, Brazilian footballer | |
| March 3rd, 1953 (March 03 1953) | Death | James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (born in 1875) | |
| March 3rd, 1952 (March 03 1952) | Birth | Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (died in 1998) | |
| March 3rd, 1951 (March 03 1951) | Birth | Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel) | |
| March 3rd, 1950 (March 03 1950) | Birth | Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and comedian | |
| March 3rd, 1949 (March 03 1949) | Birth | Juri Allik, Estonian psychologist | |
| March 3rd, 1949 (March 03 1949) | Birth | Gloria Hendry, American actress | |
| March 3rd, 1949 (March 03 1949) | Birth | Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player | |
| March 3rd, 1948 (March 03 1948) | Birth | Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd) | |
| March 3rd, 1947 (March 03 1947) | Birth | Jennifer Warnes, American singer and songwriter | |
| March 3rd, 1947 (March 03 1947) | Birth | Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (died in 2001) | |
| March 3rd, 1947 (March 03 1947) | Birth | Clifton Snider, American poet and writer | |
| March 3rd, 1946 (March 03 1946) | Birth | John Virgo, English snooker player | |
| March 3rd, 1945 (March 03 1945) | Event | World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers. | |
| March 3rd, 1945 (March 03 1945) | Birth | George Miller, Australian film director | |
| March 3rd, 1944 (March 03 1944) | Event | The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov were instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards. | |
| March 3rd, 1943 (March 03 1943) | Event | World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station. | |
| March 3rd, 1943 (March 03 1943) | Death | George Thompson, English cricketer (born in 1877) | |
| March 3rd, 1942 (March 03 1942) | Event | World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people. | |
| March 3rd, 1942 (March 03 1942) | Birth | Mike Pender, English singer and guitarist (The Searchers) | |
| March 3rd, 1940 (March 03 1940) | Event | Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Lulea, Sweden. | |
| March 3rd, 1940 (March 03 1940) | Birth | German Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist | |
| March 3rd, 1940 (March 03 1940) | Birth | Perry Ellis, fashion designer (died in 1986) | |
| March 3rd, 1940 (March 03 1940) | Birth | Owen Spencer-Thomas, English broadcaster, journalist and Anglican clergyman | |
| March 3rd, 1939 (March 03 1939) | Event | In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India. | |
| March 3rd, 1938 (March 03 1938) | Event | Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. | |
| March 3rd, 1937 (March 03 1937) | Birth | Bobby Driscoll, American actor (died in 1968) | |
| March 3rd, 1933 (March 03 1933) | Birth | Marco Antonio Muniz, Mexican singer (Los Tres Aces) | |
| March 3rd, 1933 (March 03 1933) | Birth | Margaret Fink, Australian film producer | |
| March 3rd, 1933 (March 03 1933) | Birth | Lee Radziwill, American fashion executive | |
| March 3rd, 1933 (March 03 1933) | Birth | Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor | |
| March 3rd, 1932 (March 03 1932) | Death | Eugen d Albert, German composer (born in 1864) | |
| March 3rd, 1931 (March 03 1931) | Event | The United States officially adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as its national anthem. | |
| March 3rd, 1930 (March 03 1930) | Birth | Heiner Gei?ler, German politician | |
| March 3rd, 1930 (March 03 1930) | Birth | Ion Iliescu, President of Romania | |
| March 3rd, 1927 (March 03 1927) | Birth | Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council | |
| March 3rd, 1927 (March 03 1927) | Death | Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (born in 1878) | |
| March 3rd, 1927 (March 03 1927) | Death | J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (born in 1884) | |
| March 3rd, 1926 (March 03 1926) | Birth | Lys Assia, Swiss singer | |
| March 3rd, 1926 (March 03 1926) | Birth | Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (died in 2003) | |
| March 3rd, 1926 (March 03 1926) | Birth | James Merrill, American poet (died in 1995) | |
| March 3rd, 1924 (March 03 1924) | Event | The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposedied in The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Ataturk. | |
| March 3rd, 1924 (March 03 1924) | Event | Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy. | |
| March 3rd, 1924 (March 03 1924) | Birth | Tomiichi Murayama, former Prime Minister of Japan | |
| March 3rd, 1924 (March 03 1924) | Birth | Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter | |
| March 3rd, 1924 (March 03 1924) | Birth | Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (died in 1948) | |
| March 3rd, 1923 (March 03 1923) | Event | TIME magazine is published for the first time. | |
| March 3rd, 1923 (March 03 1923) | Birth | Barney Martin, American actor (died in 2005) | |
| March 3rd, 1923 (March 03 1923) | Birth | Doc Watson, American musician | |
| March 3rd, 1922 (March 03 1922) | Birth | Nandor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (died in 2002) | |
| March 3rd, 1920 (March 03 1920) | Birth | Julius Boros, American golfer (died in 1994) | |
| March 3rd, 1920 (March 03 1920) | Birth | James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (died in 2005) | |
| March 3rd, 1920 (March 03 1920) | Birth | Ronald Searle, British illustrator | |
| March 3rd, 1920 (March 03 1920) | Death | Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (born in 1840) | |
| March 3rd, 1918 (March 03 1918) | Event | 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. | |
| March 3rd, 1918 (March 03 1918) | Birth | Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate (died in 2007) | |
| March 3rd, 1918 (March 03 1918) | Birth | Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (died in 2000) | |
| March 3rd, 1915 (March 03 1915) | Event | NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded. | |
| March 3rd, 1913 (March 03 1913) | Event | Establishment of the first football club in BulgariaTicha, now known as PFC "Cherno More". | |
| March 3rd, 1911 (March 03 1911) | Birth | Jean Harlow, American actress (died in 1937) | |
| March 3rd, 1911 (March 03 1911) | Birth | Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (died in 1982) | |
| March 3rd, 1910 (March 03 1910) | Event | Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist. | Devo Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1910 (March 03 1910) | Birth | Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (died in 1990) | |
| March 3rd, 1905 (March 03 1905) | Event | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma). | |
| March 3rd, 1904 (March 03 1904) | Event | Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison s cylinder. | |
| March 3rd, 1899 (March 03 1899) | Death | William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (born in 1827) | |
| March 3rd, 1895 (March 03 1895) | Birth | Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1973) | |
| March 3rd, 1895 (March 03 1895) | Birth | Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (died in 1993) | |
| March 3rd, 1894 (March 03 1894) | Death | Ned Williamson, American baseball player (born in 1857) | |
| March 3rd, 1893 (March 03 1893) | Birth | Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (died in 1998) | |
| March 3rd, 1891 (March 03 1891) | Event | The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season. | |
| March 3rd, 1890 (March 03 1890) | Birth | Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (died in 1939) | |
| March 3rd, 1886 (March 03 1886) | Birth | Tore Orjas?ter, Norwegian poet (died in 1968) | |
| March 3rd, 1885 (March 03 1885) | Event | The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York. | |
| March 3rd, 1883 (March 03 1883) | Birth | Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (died in 1971) | |
| March 3rd, 1880 (March 03 1880) | Birth | Florence Auer, American actress (died in 1962) | |
| March 3rd, 1880 (March 03 1880) | Birth | Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (died in 1946) | |
| March 3rd, 1879 (March 03 1879) | Event | The United States Geological Survey is created. | |
| March 3rd, 1878 (March 03 1878) | Event | Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire. | |
| March 3rd, 1877 (March 03 1877) | Event | Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5). | Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1875 (March 03 1875) | Event | Georges Bizet s opera Carmen premieres at the Opera Comique of Paris. | |
| March 3rd, 1875 (March 03 1875) | Event | The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette. | |
| March 3rd, 1873 (March 03 1873) | Event | Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. | |
| March 3rd, 1873 (March 03 1873) | Birth | William Green, American labor union leader (died in 1952) | |
| March 3rd, 1871 (March 03 1871) | Birth | Maurice Garin, French cyclist (died in 1957) | |
| March 3rd, 1866 (March 03 1866) | Birth | Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (died in 1914) | |
| March 3rd, 1865 (March 03 1865) | Event | The U.S. Congress authorizes the formation of the Freedmen s Bureau. | |
| March 3rd, 1865 (March 03 1865) | Event | Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group. | |
| March 3rd, 1863 (March 03 1863) | Event | The Idaho Territory organizes as a political division of the United States. | |
| March 3rd, 1863 (March 03 1863) | Birth | Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (died in 1947) | |
| March 3rd, 1861 (March 03 1861) | Event | Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs. | |
| March 3rd, 1860 (March 03 1860) | Birth | John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (died in 1925) | |
| March 3rd, 1857 (March 03 1857) | Event | Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. | |
| March 3rd, 1851 (March 03 1851) | Birth | Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (died in 1911) | |
| March 3rd, 1850 (March 03 1850) | Death | Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (born in 1806) | |
| March 3rd, 1849 (March 03 1849) | Event | The United States Department of the Interior is established. | |
| March 3rd, 1849 (March 03 1849) | Event | The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins. | |
| March 3rd, 1848 (March 03 1848) | Birth | Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (died in 1880) | |
| March 3rd, 1847 (March 03 1847) | Birth | Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (died in 1922) | Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1845 (March 03 1845) | Event | Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state. | |
| March 3rd, 1845 (March 03 1845) | Event | For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto. | |
| March 3rd, 1845 (March 03 1845) | Birth | Georg Cantor, German mathematician (died in 1918) | |
| March 3rd, 1839 (March 03 1839) | Birth | Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (died in 1904) | |
| March 3rd, 1831 (March 03 1831) | Birth | George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (died in 1897) | |
| March 3rd, 1820 (March 03 1820) | Event | The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise. | |
| March 3rd, 1817 (March 03 1817) | Event | The Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory. | |
| March 3rd, 1805 (March 03 1805) | Birth | Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (died in 1861) | |
| March 3rd, 1803 (March 03 1803) | Event | Colegio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello. | |
| March 3rd, 1800 (March 03 1800) | Birth | Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (died in 1862) | |
| March 3rd, 1793 (March 03 1793) | Birth | William Charles Macready, English actor (died in 1873) | |
| March 3rd, 1792 (March 03 1792) | Death | Robert Adam, Scottish architect (born in 1728) | |
| March 3rd, 1791 (March 03 1791) | Event | The United States Mint is created by the Congress of the United States. | |
| March 3rd, 1778 (March 03 1778) | Birth | Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (died in 1841) | |
| March 3rd, 1768 (March 03 1768) | Death | Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (born in 1686) | |
| March 3rd, 1765 (March 03 1765) | Death | William Stukeley, English archaeologist (born in 1687) | William Stukeley Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1744 (March 03 1744) | Death | Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist | |
| March 3rd, 1717 (March 03 1717) | Death | Pierre Allix, French Protestant pastor (born in 1641) | |
| March 3rd, 1707 (March 03 1707) | Death | Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (born in 1618) | |
| March 3rd, 1706 (March 03 1706) | Death | Johann Pachelbel, German composer (born in 1653) | |
| March 3rd, 1703 (March 03 1703) | Death | Robert Hooke, English scientist (born in 1635) | |
| March 3rd, 1678 (March 03 1678) | Birth | Madeleine de Vercheres, French Canadian heroine (died in 1747) | |
| March 3rd, 1652 (March 03 1652) | Birth | Thomas Otway, British dramatist (died in 1685) | |
| March 3rd, 1606 (March 03 1606) | Birth | Edmund Waller, British poet (died in 1687) | Edmund Waller Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1589 (March 03 1589) | Birth | Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (died in 1676) | |
| March 3rd, 1585 (March 03 1585) | Event | The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza. | |
| March 3rd, 1583 (March 03 1583) | Birth | Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (died in 1648) | Philo Quotes |
| March 3rd, 1575 (March 03 1575) | Event | Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi. | |
| March 3rd, 1554 (March 03 1554) | Death | John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (born in 1503) | |
| March 3rd, 1520 (March 03 1520) | Birth | Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (died in 1575) | |
| March 3rd, 1459 (March 03 1459) | Death | Ausias March, Catalan poet (born in 1397) | |
| March 3rd, 1455 (March 03 1455) | Birth | King John II of Portugal (died in 1495) | |
| March 3rd, 1239 (March 03 1239) | Death | Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (born in 1187) | |
| March 3rd, 1111 (March 03 1111) | Death | Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch | |
