About March 3
March 3, 2020 is the 63rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 346 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.
- 1820 –The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 1845 –Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1910 –Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
- 1923 –TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- 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.
- 1924 –The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
- 1942 –World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
- 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.
- 1951 –Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records “Rocket 88”, often cited as “the first rock and roll record”, at Sam Phillips’ recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1953 –A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
- 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.
- 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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