About March 3
March 3, 2025 is the 62nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 351 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.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
- 1857 –Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
- 1861 –Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
- 1865 –Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
- 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.
- 1878 –The Russo-Turkish War ends as 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.
- 1915 –NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
- 1923 –TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- 1924 –The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
- 1945 –World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
- 1969 –Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- 1974 –Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
- 1985 –A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
- 1985 –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.
- 1991 –In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
- 2002 –Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
- 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.
- 2009 –The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
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