March 3

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March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). There are 303 days remaining.

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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Events

1431 - Eugenius IV becomes Pope.
1791 - The United States Mint is created by the U.S. Congress.
1820 - The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1845 - For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
1849 - Minnesota Territory organized as a political division of the United States.
1849 - The United States Department of the Interior is established.
1849 - The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
1857 - France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1863 - Idaho Territory organized as a political division of the United States.
1865 - The U.S. Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
1873 - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
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 as a subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
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 philanthropist.
1915 - 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 breaks the world record for the indoor mile run by completing the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.
1939 - In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
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.
1945 - World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers.
1945 - World War II: Hundreds of people die in The Hague after the Royal Air Force mistakenly bombs a civilian area in the city.
1949 - The 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).
1958 - Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
1959 - The San Francisco Giants officially name their new stadium Candlestick Park.
1961 - Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
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.
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, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.
1976 - Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977.
1978 - Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland but are recovered 11 weeks later near Lake Geneva.
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 police officers.
1995 - In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.
1997 - 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.
1999 - LaGrand case: The State of Arizona executes Walter LaGrand, a 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 Materials Command C-23 Sherpa transport crashes during stormy weather in the U.S. state of Georgia, killing 21.
2002 - Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favour of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
2005 - Mayorthorpe Massacre: Four members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are gunned down during a drug bust near Mayorthorpe, Alberta in the worst attack on 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 freighter M/V Karen Danielsen, crashes into part of the Great Belt Bridge of Denmark, 800 m from Funen. All traffic across the bridge stops, effectively separating Denmark in two.