Monday, March 5, 2018

TODAY IN HISTORY ― MARCH 3

March 3 is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56). 

NATIONAL ANTHEM DAY 

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.

1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise

1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.

1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.

1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T)  is incorporated in New York.


1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.

1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.

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 thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.

1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.

1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

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: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.

1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.

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.

1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes 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. The incident lead to the largest riot in Los Angeles history.

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.

2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.

2014 – The trial of Oscar Pistorius begins in Pretoria.


BORN TODAY 

1847 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer and academic, invented the telephone (d. 1922)

1913 Margaret Bonds, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)

1918 Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)

From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.  

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