About March 3
March 3, 2024 is the 63rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 332 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 3
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
- 1779 –American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
- 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.
- 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 –An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
- 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.
- 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.
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