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.
- 1820 –The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
- 1969 –Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- 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.
- 1991 –United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
- 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 –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 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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