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
- 1575 –Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
- 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.
- 1820 –The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 1845 –Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1938 –Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 1940 –Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 –Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
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