Notable Historical Events on March 3rd
March 3rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
78 |
Origin of Saka Era (India) |
468 |
St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius |
493 |
Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker |
1284 |
Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England |
1409 |
Austrian civil war ends |
1431 |
Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV |
1575 |
Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi. |
1585 |
The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza. |
1627 |
Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil |
1634 |
1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole) |
1638 |
Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden |
1746 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Inverness Castle |
1776 |
US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas |
1791 |
1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages) |
1791 |
Congress establishes US Mint |
1794 |
1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D |
1794 |
Richard Allen founded AME Church |
1801 |
1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia |
1803 |
1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins |
1803 |
Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello. |
1805 |
Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms |
1812 |
US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims) |
1813 |
Office of Surgeon General of the US Army forms |
1815 |
US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute |
1817 |
Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi |
1820 |
Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery still being legal there. |
1835 |
Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans Louisiana |
1837 |
Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9 |
1837 |
US President Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas |
1838 |
Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada |
1842 |
1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass) |
1842 |
1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony |
1843 |
Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US |
1845 |
1st time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto |
1845 |
Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery |
1845 |
Florida becomes 27th state of the Union |
1847 |
Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps |
1849 |
Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin |
1849 |
Territory of Minnesota organizes |
1849 |
US Home Department (later renamed the Department of the Interior) established by Congress |
1851 |
Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece) |
1853 |
Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress |
1853 |
US Assay Office in NYC authorized |
1855 |
US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use |
1855 |
US Congress authorizes registered mail |
1857 |
Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. |
1861 |
Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs [OS=Feb 19]. |
1862 |
Union forces under General Pope lay siege to New Madrid, Missouri (US Civil War) |
1863 |
US Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific Railroad |
1863 |
1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted |
1863 |
Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences |
1863 |
Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada |
1863 |
Federal ironclad ships bombard Fort McAllister, Georgia |
1863 |
Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired |
1863 |
Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress |
1863 |
Idaho Territory forms |
1865 |
US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established by Abraham Lincoln to help destitute free blacks |
1865 |
Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group. |
1869 |
University of South Carolina opens to all races |
1871 |
US Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent |
1871 |
US Congress establishes the civil service system |
1873 |
US Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps |
1873 |
US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively |
1873 |
Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. |
1875 |
1st recorded hockey game (Montreal) |
1875 |
Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years |
1875 |
Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris) |
1877 |
Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th US president |
1878 |
Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano) |
1879 |
1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood) |
1879 |
US Geological Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior |
1882 |
NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings |
1883 |
Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy |
1885 |
1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission |
1885 |
American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates |
1885 |
Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government) |
1885 |
US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail |
1887 |
American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa |
1887 |
Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller |
1891 |
Congress creates US Courts of Appeal |
1891 |
Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) |
1891 |
The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season. |
1892 |
1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn |
1893 |
Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized |
1893 |
Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Dept of Agriculture |
1894 |
1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "NY Atlantis" |
1894 |
4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns |
1899 |
Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar |
1899 |
George Dewey becomes 1st in US to hold the rank of Admiral of the Navy |
1900 |
US Steel Corporation organizes |
1901 |
Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce |
1903 |
North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses |
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 |
US Forest Service forms |
1905 |
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to summon a 'consultative assembly' and concedes other points including an edict of religious toleration, relief for Jews, and the cancellation of certain debts |
1906 |
Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France |
1909 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3 |
1910 |
Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can be devoted full time to being a philanthropist |
1911 |
1st US federal cemetery with Union & Confederate graves opens, Missouri |
1913 |
Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC |
1915 |
US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics(NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA |
1917 |
US Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations |
1918 |
Richard Goering's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin |
1918 |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria & Russia sign |
1919 |
1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC |
1919 |
Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike |
1920 |
Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs |
1921 |
Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin |
1921 |
The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, est. by the South African Government, proposes a system of voluntary repatriation and segregation of Indians and prohibit Indians from buying agricultural land in a specified area along the coast |
1922 |
Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka |
1922 |
WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions |
1923 |
Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon (Speaker of US House of Representatives) |
1923 |
US Senate rejects membership of the International Court of Justice, The Hague |
1924 |
German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed |
1924 |
Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock," premieres in Dublin |
1926 |
International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla) |
1931 |
"Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem by congressional resolution |
1931 |
Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller) |
1933 |
German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested |
1933 |
Mount Rushmore dedicated |
1933 |
NYC premiere of "King Kong" |
1934 |
John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol |
1935 |
Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms |
1936 |
Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa |
1937 |
Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down |
1938 |
American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors) |
1939 |
In Mumbai (Bombay), Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest against autocratic rule in India. |
1940 |
Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label |
1941 |
Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Hermann Goering in Berlin |
1942 |
1st combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber |
1943 |
Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die |
1943 |
F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in NYC |
1943 |
Battle of the Bismarck Sea during WWII: Australian and American airforces devastate Japanese navy convoy |
1944 |
1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony |
1945 |
Winston Churchill visits Field Marshal Montgomery's headquarters |
1945 |
RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 |
1945 |
Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed |
1945 |
US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor |
1945 |
US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall |
1946 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
1946 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
1950 |
3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name |
1951 |
Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts |
1952 |
Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution |
1953 |
Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed |
1953 |
Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee |
1955 |
Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance on a broadcast of radio show "Louisiana Hayride" |
1956 |
Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel" |
1956 |
Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2) |
1956 |
Indonesian government of Harahap resigns |
1956 |
Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) |
1956 |
Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY |
1957 |
Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then" |
1957 |
Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham & Jones (GRB) |
1957 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul (CAN) |
1957 |
Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colo Springs won by David Jenkins (USA) |
1957 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
1957 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss (US) |
1958 |
KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast |
1958 |
Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq |
1959 |
1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched |
1959 |
Brit government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis |
1959 |
SF Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park |
1960 |
9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5") |
1961 |
King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco |
1962 |
British Antarctic Territory forms |
1963 |
Senegal adopts constitution |
1965 |
Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1 |
1965 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1965 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1966 |
Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al) |
1966 |
James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in NYC |
1966 |
Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee |
1966 |
Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms |
1966 |
Twister hits Jackson Miss; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die |
1966 |
WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Grenada gains partial independence from Britain |
1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1967 |
White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) |
1968 |
"Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC |
1968 |
Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague |
1968 |
Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts |
1968 |
In a blockbuster trade, the Toronto Maple Leafs send hall of fame forward Frank Mahovlich to the rival Detroit Red Wings |
1969 |
Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days) |
1971 |
South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles |
1971 |
Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa |
1972 |
Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia |
1973 |
"Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances |
1973 |
White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000 |
1974 |
"Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances |
1974 |
Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4 |
1974 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
1974 |
World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) |
1975 |
"Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances |
1975 |
Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana |
1975 |
1st People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda, Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV) |
1976 |
Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia |
1976 |
5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. |
1977 |
Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS) |
1977 |
Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal |
1977 |
Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms |
1977 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR) |
1977 |
World Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA) |
1978 |
1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia) |
1980 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1980 |
The USS Nautilus is decimmissioned. |
1980 |
Pierre Trudeau sworn in, for the second time, as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada |
1981 |
Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season-4 goals |
1981 |
NY Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie |
1982 |
Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ) |
1984 |
NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6) |
1984 |
Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) |
1985 |
"Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres |
1985 |
"My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances |
1985 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
1985 |
Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million |
1985 |
National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike |
1985 |
Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million |
1987 |
Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame |
1989 |
Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines |
1989 |
Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra |
1990 |
Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA |
1991 |
"Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances |
1991 |
25 die as United Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs |
1991 |
Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston |
1991 |
Iraqi generals & Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire |
1991 |
LA Police severly beat motorist Rodney King, captured on amateur video |
1991 |
Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR |
1991 |
Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec) |
1991 |
Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal |
1991 |
Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18 |
1991 |
United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25 |
1992 |
Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die |
1992 |
Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd # retired by NY Islanders |
1992 |
Pres Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to |
1992 |
Charges are filed in Florida against NY Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April) |
1992 |
The nation of Bosnia was established. |
1993 |
Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings) |
1994 |
"Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances |
1994 |
"Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels |
1994 |
IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry |
1996 |
26th Easter Seal Telethon |
1996 |
Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final |
1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM |
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. |
1998 |
Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee |
2002 |
Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor 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 |
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. |
2005 |
Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes. |
2009 |
The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan. |
2009 |
The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses. |
2012 |
Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27 |
2012 |
Two trains crash in Szczekociny, Poland, with 16 people dead and up to 50 injured |
2013 |
45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan |
2013 |
A 2 year old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured |
2016 |
North Korea fires several short-range projectiles into sea - South Korea |
2016 |
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants nukes ready to go |
2016 |
UNHCR: More than 10000 migrants stranded at Greece-Macedonia border |
2016 |
Fewer than half Rio Games tickets sold: organizers |
2017 |
Melania Trump Reads Dr. Seuss to Children in First Solo Outing as First Lady |
2017 |
Kushner and Flynn Met With Russian Envoy in December, White House Says |
2018 |
US dollar outlook darkens as trade war looms |
2018 |
89-year-old Agnes Varda welcomes the title of oldest Oscar nominee |
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