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
- 1284 –The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
- 1845 –Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- 1857 –Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
- 1875 –The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
- 1885 –The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
- 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.
- 1923 –TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- 1939 –In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
- 1940 –Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
- 1944 –The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1985 –A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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