March
3
Hinamatsuri
or "Girl's Day"
(Japan)
Liberation Day (Bulgaria)
Mother's Day (Georgia)
Sportsmen's day (Egypt)
Events
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.
1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation, the founding member of
the HSBC Group.
1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph
Company is incorporated in New York.
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.
1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller
Jr. announces his retirement from managing
his businesses so that he can devote all his
time to philanthropy.
1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
1923 – TIME magazine is published for the
first time.
1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled
Banner as its national anthem.
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes
at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing
all 346 aboard.
1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the
Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and
leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1991 – In concurrent referenda, 74% of the
population of Latvia votes for independence
from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
1991 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes
on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado,
killing 25.
2002 – Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote
in favor of their country becoming a member
of the United Nations.
2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person
to fly an airplane non-stop around the world
solo without refueling.
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