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
- 1284 –The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
- 1857 –Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
- 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.
- 1885 –The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
- 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.
- 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 can devote all his time to philanthropy.
- 1915 –NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
- 1923 –TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- 1938 –Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 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.
- 1958 –Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agree to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that forms InBev, the world’s largest brewer.
- 2005 –Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
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