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
- 1820 –The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 1845 –Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- 1865 –Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
- 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.
- 1918 –Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia’s involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
- 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.
- 1939 –In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
- 1944 –The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
- 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.
- 1991 –An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
- 1991 –In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
- 1991 –United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
- 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.
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