About March 3
March 3, 2024 is the 63rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 332 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 3
- 1284 –The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
- 1585 –The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
- 1779 –American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
- 1820 –The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 1845 –Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- 1861 –Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
- 1873 –Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.
- 1904 –Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder.
- 1910 –Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
- 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.
- 1931 –The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
- 1939 –In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
- 1942 –World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
- 1945 –World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
- 1953 –A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
- 1969 –Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- 1985 –A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
- 1991 –An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
- 1991 –United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
- 2005 –Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
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