WillDekkard
03-03-2010, 04:30 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 3rd
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* 1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
* 1575 Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
* 1585 The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
* 1776 The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
* 1803 Colιgio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
* 1820 The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
* 1845 Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
* 1845 For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
* 1849 The United States Department of the Interior is established.
* 1849 The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
* 1857 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
* 1861 Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
* 1865 The U.S. Congress authorizes the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
* 1865 Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
* 1873 Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
* 1875 Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its premiθre at the Opιra Comique of Paris.
* 1875 The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
* 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5).
* 1878 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.
* 1879 The United States Geological Survey is created.
* 1885 The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
* 1891 The Penalty Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season.
* 1904 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
* 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 full time to being a philanthropist.
* 1915 NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
* 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.
* 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 Atatόrk.
* 1924 The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
* 1931 The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
* 1938 Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
* 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 Luleε, Sweden.
* 1942 World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
* 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.
* 1945 World War II: American and Filipino troops take Manila in the Philippines.
* 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.
* 1961 Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
* 1969 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
* 1971 Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini.
* 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.
* 1976 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
* 1980 The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken.
* 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 two concurring referendums: 74 % of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, in Estonia 83 %.
* 1991 United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
* 1992 The nation of Bosnia is established.
* 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.
* 2005 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
* 2009 The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.
* 2009 The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Kφln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
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- March 3rd
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
* 1575 Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
* 1585 The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
* 1776 The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
* 1803 Colιgio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
* 1820 The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
* 1845 Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
* 1845 For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
* 1849 The United States Department of the Interior is established.
* 1849 The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
* 1857 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
* 1861 Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
* 1865 The U.S. Congress authorizes the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
* 1865 Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
* 1873 Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
* 1875 Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its premiθre at the Opιra Comique of Paris.
* 1875 The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
* 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5).
* 1878 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.
* 1879 The United States Geological Survey is created.
* 1885 The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
* 1891 The Penalty Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season.
* 1904 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
* 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 full time to being a philanthropist.
* 1915 NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
* 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.
* 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 Atatόrk.
* 1924 The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
* 1931 The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
* 1938 Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
* 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 Luleε, Sweden.
* 1942 World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
* 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.
* 1945 World War II: American and Filipino troops take Manila in the Philippines.
* 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.
* 1961 Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
* 1969 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
* 1971 Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini.
* 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.
* 1976 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
* 1980 The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken.
* 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 two concurring referendums: 74 % of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, in Estonia 83 %.
* 1991 United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
* 1992 The nation of Bosnia is established.
* 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.
* 2005 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
* 2009 The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.
* 2009 The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Kφln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
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