March 3rd Events |
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| 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, 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, 2002 (March 03 2002) | Event | Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1980 (March 03 1980) | Event | The USS Nautilus is stricken. | |
| March 3rd, 1976 (March 03 1976) | Event | 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. | |
| 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, 1972 (March 03 1972) | Event | Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes in unexplained circumstances. | |
| 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, 1969 (March 03 1969) | Event | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module. | |
| March 3rd, 1961 (March 03 1961) | Event | Hassan II becomes King of Morocco. | |
| March 3rd, 1958 (March 03 1958) | Event | Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time. | |
| March 3rd, 1953 (March 03 1953) | Event | A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11. | |
| March 3rd, 1945 (March 03 1945) | Event | World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 1931 (March 03 1931) | Event | The United States officially adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as its national anthem. | |
| 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, 1923 (March 03 1923) | Event | TIME magazine is published for the first time. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1885 (March 03 1885) | Event | The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York. | |
| 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, 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, 1861 (March 03 1861) | Event | Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs. | |
| March 3rd, 1857 (March 03 1857) | Event | Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1803 (March 03 1803) | Event | Colegio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello. | |
| March 3rd, 1791 (March 03 1791) | Event | The United States Mint is created by the Congress of the United States. | |
| March 3rd, 1585 (March 03 1585) | Event | The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza. | |
| March 3rd, 1575 (March 03 1575) | Event | Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi. | |
