About March 3
March 3, 2022 is the 62nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 325 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 3
- 1575 –Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
- 1820 –The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 1857 –Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
- 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.
- 1915 –NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
- 1924 –The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
- 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: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
- 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.
- 1969 –Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
- 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.
- 2009 –The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
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