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Old 03-06-2017, 02:12 PM   #598
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March 3

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.

1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.

1849 – The Territory of Minnesota was created.

1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.

1865 – Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.

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.

1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

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.

1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.

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

1939 – In Bombay, Mohandas K. Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.

1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.

1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

1980 – The USS Nautilus, the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.

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.

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.

2005 – James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This 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.

2005 – Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.

Births

1831 – George Pullman, 1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, 1860 – John Montgomery Ward, 1882 – Charles Ponzi, 1895 – Matthew Ridgway, 1911 – Jean Harlow, 1913 – Harold J. Stone, 1920 – James Doohan, 1923 – Doc Watson, 1940 – Perry Ellis, 1945 – Hattie Winston, 1947 – Jennifer Warnes, 1953 – Robyn Hitchcock, 1962 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 1962 – Herschel Walker, 1966 – Tone Lōc, 1970 – Julie Bowen, 1971 – Charlie Brooker, 1974 – David Faustino, 1982 – Jessica Biel

Deaths

1706 – Johann Pachelbel, 1959 – Lou Costello, 1966 – William Frawley, 1987 – Danny Kaye, 1991 – Arthur Murray, 1998 – Fred W. Friendly, 2012 – Ronnie Montrose
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