About March 3

March 3, 2021 is the 62nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 335 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 3

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1875 –
    The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
  • 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.
  • 1905 –
    Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
  • 1931 –
    The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
  • 1943 –
    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.
  • 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.
  • 1972 –
    Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
  • 1974 –
    Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
  • 1980 –
    The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
  • 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.
  • 2002 –
    Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
  • 2005 –
    Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
  • 2009 –
    The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.

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