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.
- 1865 –Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
- 1875 –Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique in Paris.
- 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.
- 1923 –TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- 1931 –The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
- 1944 –The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2009 –The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
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