From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
- 1904
? Kaiser
Wilhelm II of Germany
becomes the first ruler to make a
sound
recording of a political document, using the
phonograph
cylinder
.
- 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, DC
.
- 1915
? NACA, the predecessor of
NASA
, is founded.
- 1918
?
World War I
:
Germany
,
Austria
and
Russia
sign the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
, ending
Russia
's involvement in the war.
- 1923
?
TIME
magazine is first published.
- 1924
? End of the
Ottoman
caliphate
.
- 1925
- The
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
is unveiled, having been created by
Gutzon Borglum
. Carved into rock are the faces of
George Washington
,
Thomas Jefferson
,
Abraham Lincoln
and
Theodore Roosevelt
.
- 1931
- The
United States
adopts "
The Star-Spangled Banner
" as the
national anthem
.
- 1933
?
Ching Yun University
is established.
- 1938
?
Oil
is discovered in
Saudi Arabia
.
- 1939
?
Mahatma Gandhi
begins a
fast
(a period without eating) in protest against
autocratic
rule in British colonial
India
.
- 1942
?
World War II
: Ten
Japanese
war planes raid the town of
Broome
in
Western Australia
, killing over 100 people.
- 1943
?
World War II
: In
London
, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter the
air-raid shelter
at
Bethnal Green tube station
.
- 1945
?
World War II
:
American
and
Filipino
troops recapture
Manila
from
Japanese
forces.
- 1945
? A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150
Ukrainian
civilians in Pawlokoma,
Poland
.
- 1945
?
World War II
: The
Royal Air Force
accidentally
bombs
the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in
The Hague
, killing 511 people.
- 1953
? A
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Comet
aircraft
crashes in
Karachi
,
Pakistan
, killing 11 people.
- 1958
?
Nuri as-Said
becomes
Prime Minister of Iraq
for the 14th time.
- 1961
?
Hassan II
becomes
King of Morocco
.
- 1962
- The
British Antarctic Territory
is created.
- 1969
?
Apollo program
:
NASA
launches
Apollo 9
to test the
lunar module
.
- 1973
-
Wasington Convention
is signed.
- 1974
?
Turkish Airlines Flight 981
crashes at Ermenonville, near
Paris
, killing all 346 people on board.
- 1978
? The body of
movie
actor
Charles Chaplin
is stolen from his
grave
in
Switzerland
.
- 1985
?
Arthur Scargill
announces the decision by the National
Mineworkers
Union to end the longest-running industrial dispute in the
United Kingdom
without a peace agreement over pit closures.
- 1985
? A magnitude 8.3
earthquake
strikes the
Valparaiso
region of
Chile
, killing 177 people.
- 1991
?
Referendum
votes in both
Estonia
and
Latvia
show overwhelming support for
independence
from the
Soviet Union
.
- 1991
?
United Airlines
Flight 585 crashes at
Colorado Springs
,
Colorado
, killing 25 people on board.
- 1991
?
Rodney King
is hit and kicked by the
Los Angeles
police, which leads to big
riots
.
- 1992
?
Kyrgyzstan
starts to use its current
flag
.
- 1992
-
Alija Izetbegovic
declares
Bosnia and Herzegovina
independent.
- 1996
- The
Partido Popular
wins the
Spanish
parliamentary
election, leading to
Jose Maria Aznar
becoming
Prime Minister
.
- 1997
? The
Sky Tower
, the
southern hemisphere
's tallest free-standing structure at a height of 328
metres
, opens in
Auckland
,
New Zealand
, following more than
2
1
⁄
2
years of building work.
- 1455
? King
John II of Portugal
(d.
1495
)
- 1500
-
Reginald Pole
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
(d.
1558
)
- 1520
-
Matthias Flacius
, Croatian Protestant reformer (d.
1575
)
- 1589
-
Gisbertus Voetius
, Dutch
theologian
(d.
1676
)
- 1606
-
Edmund Waller
, English poet (d.
1687
)
- 1652
-
Thomas Ottway
, English
dramatist
(d.
1685
)
- 1678
-
Madeleine de Vercheres
, Canadian
heroine
(d.
1747
)
- 1756
-
William Goodwin
, English writer (d.
1836
)
- 1778
?
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
, Queen of
Hanover
(d.
1841
)
- 1788
-
William Carroll
, 6th and 9th
Governor
of
Tennessee
(d.
1844
)
- 1793
-
Charles Sealsfield
, Austrian-American
journalist
(d.
1864
)
- 1800
?
Heinrich Georg Bronn
, German
geologist
(d.
1862
)
- 1805
?
Jonas Furrer
, 1st
President
of the
Swiss Confederation
(d.
1861
)
- 1816
-
William James Blacklock
, English painter (d.
1858
)
- 1819
-
Gustave de Molinari
, Belgian
economist
(d.
1912
)
- 1823
?
Gyula Andrassy
,
Hungarian
regent (d.
1890
)
- 1831
-
George Pullman
, American
inventor
(d.
1897
)
- 1838
?
George William Hill
, American
astronomer
and
mathematician
(d.
1914
)
- 1839
?
Jamsetji Tata
, Indian
industrialist
(d.
1904
)
- 1841
-
John Murray
, Scottish
oceanographer
(d.
1914
)
- 1845
?
Georg Cantor
, German
mathematician
(d.
1918
)
- 1847
?
Alexander Graham Bell
, Scottish inventor (d.
1922
)
- 1860
-
John Montgomery Ward
, American
baseball
player (d.
1925
)
- 1861
-
Racho Petrov
, Bulgarian general and politician (d.
1942
)
- 1866
-
Fred A. Busse
,
Mayor
of
Chicago
(d.
1914
)
- 1869
?
Henry Wood
, English
conductor
(d.
1944
)
- 1869
?
William M. Calder
,
United States
Senator (d.
1945
)
- 1871
?
Maurice Garin
, French
cyclist
(d.
1957
)
- 1873
-
William Green
, American
labor
union leader (d.
1953
)
- 1877
?
Jon Thorlaksson
,
Prime Minister
of
Iceland
(d.
1935
)
- 1878
-
Leopold Jessner
, German
producer
and
director
(d.
1945
)
- 1879
-
Jozsef Klekl
,
Slovenian
writer (d.
1936
)
- 1880
?
Yosuke Matsuoka
, Japanese politician (d.
1946
)
- 1880
?
Florence Auer
, American actress (d.
1962
)
- 1882
-
Charles Ponzi
, Italian criminal, origin of the term
Ponzi scheme
(d.
1949
)
- 1886
?
Tore Orjasaeter
, Norwegian
poet
(d.
1968
)
- 1886
-
Ezequiel Fernandez
, 18th
President
of
Panama
(d.
1946
)
- 1890
?
Norman Bethune
, Canadian
doctor
and
humanitarian
(d.
1939
)
- 1891
?
Damaskinos
,
Prime Minister
of
Greece
(d.
1949
)
- 1891
?
Arthur Drewry
, British
FIFA
President (d.
1961
)
- 1893
?
Beatrice Wood
, American
artist
and ceramicist (d.
1998
)
- 1895
?
Ragnar Frisch
, Norwegian
economist
(d.
1973
)
- 1901
?
Claude Choules
, British
World War I
veteran and
supercentenarian
(d.
2011
)
- 1903
-
Vasily Kozlov
, Soviet politician (d.
1987
)
- 1905
-
Marie Glory
, French actress (d.
2009
)
- 1906
-
Artur Lundqvist
, Swedish writer (d.
1991
)
- 1911
-
Jean Harlow
, American actress (d.
1937
)
- 1912
-
Klaus Gysi
, German politician (d.
1999
)
- 1914
?
Asger Jorn
, Danish painter (d.
1973
)
- 1916
?
Paul Halmos
, Hungarian-American
mathematician
(d.
2006
)
- 1918
?
Arthur Kornberg
, American bio
chemist
(d.
2007
)
- 1918
-
Peter O'Sullevan
, British horse racing commentator (d.
2015
)
- 1918
-
Fritz Thiedemann
, German
equestrian
(d.
2000
)
- 1919
?
Loki Schmidt
, German
environmentalist
and wife of
Helmut Schmidt
(d.
2010
)
- 1919
?
Peter Abrahams
, South African writer (d.
2017
)
- 1920
?
Ronald Searle
, British
cartoonist
(d.
2011
)
- 1920
?
Julius Boros
, American
golfer
(d.
1994
)
- 1920
?
James Doohan
, Canadian actor (d.
2005
)
- 1921
-
Diana Barrymore
, American actress (d.
1960
)
- 1921
-
Doc Paskowitz
, American surfer and physician (d.
2014
)
- 1922
?
Nandor Hidegkuti
, Hungarian
footballer
(d.
2002
)
- 1923
-
Doc Watson
, American
bluegrass
musician (d.
2012
)
- 1924
?
Tomiichi Murayama
,
Prime Minister of Japan
- 1924
?
Lys Assia
, Swiss singer and actress (d.
2018
)
- 1928
-
Howell Evans
, Welsh
actor
,
comedian
and
singer
(d.
2014
)
- 1929
-
Mithat Bayrak
, Turkish wrestler (d.
2014
)
- 1930
?
Heiner Geissler
, German politician (d.
2017
)
- 1930
?
Ion Iliescu
, former
President of Romania
- 1933
?
Lee Radziwill
, American
fashion
executive (d.
2019
)
- 1933
-
Alfredo Landa
, Spanish actor (d.
2013
)
- 1934
-
Jimmy Garrison
, American
jazz
musician (d.
1976
)
- 1934
-
Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
, English politician
- 1934
-
Yasuo Takamori
, Japanese
footballer
- 1935
?
Zhelyu Zhelev
, former
President
of
Bulgaria
(d.
2015
)
- 1935
?
Michael Walzer
, American
philosopher
- 1935
-
Malcolm Anderson
, Australian
tennis
player
- 1937
-
Tsukasa Hosaka
, Japanese
footballer
(d.
2018
)
- 1937
-
Bobby Driscoll
, American actor (d.
1968
)
- 1938
-
Bruno Bozzetti
, Italian animator and movie director
- 1942
-
Mike Pender
, English singer and
guitarist
- 1945
-
Ronald Mallett
, American theoretical
physicist
- 1945
-
George Miller
, Australian director
- 1946
-
John Virgo
, English
snooker
player
- 1946
-
James C. Adamson
, American
astronaut
- 1947
-
Jennifer Warnes
, American singer
- 1947
?
Oscar Tabarez
,
Uruguayan
football manager
- 1948
?
Snowy White
, British
guitarist
- 1949
-
Bonnie J. Dunbar
, American
engineer
, academic and
astronaut
- 1951
-
Tony Hall
, British broadcasting executive, Director-General of the
BBC
- 1953
?
Zico
, Brazilian
footballer
- 1955
-
Jorge Vergara
, Mexican businessman
- 1955
-
Darnell Williams
, English-American actor
- 1956
-
Zbigniew Boniek
, Polish
footballer
- 1958
?
Miranda Richardson
, British actress
- 1958
?
Bob Bradley
, American
soccer
coach
- 1958
-
Marc Silvestri
, American comic book artist
- 1960
-
Neal Heaton
, American
baseball
player and coach
- 1961
?
Fatima Whitbread
, British
javelin
thrower
- 1962
-
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
, American athlete
- 1966
-
Fernando Colunga
, Mexican actor
- 1966
-
Timo Tolkki
, Finnish musician
- 1967
-
Alexander Volkov
, Russian
tennis
player
- 1968
?
Brian Cox
, British
physicist
, television presenter and former
musician
- 1968
-
Brian Leetch
, American
ice hockey
player
- 1970
?
Inzamam ul-Haq
,
Pakistani
cricketer
- 1970
-
James Purnell
, British politician
- 1970
-
John Carter Cash
, American
country musician
- 1971
?
Charlie Brooker
, British comedian, writer and broadcaster
- 1971
-
Christian Eigner
, Austrian
drummer
and
songwriter
(
Depeche Mode
)
- 1972
?
Darren Anderton
, English
footballer
- 1973
-
Xavier Bettel
,
Prime Minister
of
Luxembourg
- 1973
-
Olafur Darri Olafsson
, Icelandic actor
- 1974
-
David Faustino
, American actor
- 1975
-
Aleksandr Abdulkhalikov
, Russian
footballer
- 1975
-
Aleksei Abdulkhalikov
, Russian
footballer
- 1976
-
Keit Pentus-Rosimannus
, Estonian politician
- 1977
?
Ronan Keating
, Irish singer
- 1978
-
Seo Moon-tak
, South Korean singer
- 1979
-
Albert Jorquera
, Spanish
footballer
- 1979
?
Alex Zane
, British comedian
- 1981
-
Eugene
, South Korean singer and actress
- 1981
?
Lil' Flip
, American
rapper
- 1981
?
Julius Malema
, South African politician and leader of Economic Freedom Fighters
- 1981
?
Emmanuel Pappoe
,
Ghanaian
footballer
- 1982
?
Jessica Biel
, American actress
- 1983
-
Ashley Hansen
, Australian
footballer
- 1984
?
Alexander Semin
, Russian
ice hockey
player
- 1985
-
David Davies
, Welsh swimmer
- 1986
-
Mehmet Topal
, Turkish
footballer
- 1986
?
Stacie Orrico
, American singer
- 1987
-
Jesus Padilla
, Mexican
footballer
- 1988
-
Riccardo Bocchino
, Italian
rugby
player
- 1988
-
Bella Heathcote
, Australian actress
- 1988
?
Michael Morrison
, English
footballer
- 1989
-
Erwin Mulder
, Dutch
footballer
- 1989
-
Hayley Marie Norman
, American
actress
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1989
-
Shuichi Gonda
, Japanese
footballer
- 1991
-
Park Cho-rong
, South Korean singer
- 1992
-
Jordy Lucas
, Australian actress
- 1994
-
Umika Kawashima
, Japanese actress
- 1995
-
Maine Mendoza
, Filipina internet and television personality
- 1997
-
Camila Cabello
, American singer
- 1033
-
Cunigunde of Luxembourg
, Holy Roman Empress (b.
960
)
- 1111
-
Bohemund I
, Prince of
Antioch
- 1239
-
Vladimir III Rurikovich
, Grand Prince of
Kiev
(b.
1187
)
- 1554
-
John Frederick, Elector of Saxony
(b.
1503
)
- 1605
?
Pope Clement VIII
(b.
1536
)
- 1606
?
Nyaungyan Min
, King of
Burma
(b.
1557
)
- 1703
?
Robert Hooke
, English scientist (b.
1635
)
- 1706
?
Johann Pachelbel
, German
composer
(b.
1653
)
- 1707
?
Aurangzeb
, Mughal Emperor (b.
1618
)
- 1792
?
Robert Adam
, Scottish
architect
(b.
1728
)
- 1824
-
Giovanni Battista Viotti
, Italian
violinist
and
composer
(b.
1755
)
- 1869
?
William Lanney
(King Billy), the last full blood
aborigine
in
Tasmania
.
- 1899
-
William P. Sprague
, American politician (b.
1887
)
- 1901
-
George Gilman
, American businessman (b.
1826
)
- 1920
-
Theodor Philipsen
, Danish painter (b.
1840
)
- 1927
-
Mikhail Artsybashev
, Ukrainian writer and playwright (b.
1878
)
- 1932
?
Eugen d'Albert
, German composer (b.
1864
)
- 1932
-
Joseph Mackey Brown
,
Governor
of
Georgia
(b.
1851
)
- 1942
-
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta
, Italian governor and viceroy (b.
1898
)
- 1945
?
William M. Calder
,
United States
Senator (b.
1869
)
- 1953
?
James J. Jeffries
, American heavyweight
boxer
(b.
1875
)
- 1959
?
Lou Costello
, American actor and comedian (d.
1906
)
- 1961
?
Paul Wittgenstein
, Austrian-born
pianist
(b.
1887
)
- 1966
?
Joseph Fields
, American
playwright
,
director
and
producer
(b.
1895
)
- 1975
-
Edward H. Griffith
, American director (d.
1888
)
- 1979
-
Mustafa Barzani
,
Kurdish
politician (b.
1903
)
- 1983
?
Herge
, Belgian comics creator (b.
1907
)
- 1987
?
Danny Kaye
, American actor, singer and comedian (b.
1911
)
- 1991
-
William Penney
, English
mathematician
(b.
1909
)
- 1993
-
Carlos Montoya
, Spanish
flamenco
guitarist
(b.
1903
)
- 1993
?
Albert Sabin
, Polish-born medical researcher (b.
1906
)
- 1995
?
Howard Hunter
, American religious leader (b.
1907
)
- 1996
?
Marguerite Durand
, French writer (b.
1914
)
- 1996
-
John Krol
, American
cardinal
(b.
1910
)
- 1998
-
Fred Friendly
, American broadcast executive (b.
1915
)
- 1999
?
Gerhard Herzberg
, German-born Canadian
chemist
(b.
1904
)
- 2002
-
G. M. C. Balayogi
, Indian
lawyer
and
politician
(b.
1951
)
- 2003
?
Horst Buchholz
, German actor (b.
1933
)
- 2005
?
Rinus Michels
, Dutch
footballer
and
coach
(b.
1928
)
- 2008
?
Giuseppe Di Stefano
, Italian
operatic
tenor
(b.
1921
)
- 2010
?
Keith Alexander
, British
footballer
and
coach
(b.
1956
)
- 2010
?
Michael Foot
, British politician (b.
1913
)
- 2011
?
Allan Louisy
,
Prime Minister
of
Saint Lucia
(b.
1914
)
- 2012
?
Ralph McQuarrie
, American
conceptual
designer
and
illustrator
(b.
1929
)
- 2013
-
Luis Cubilla
,
Uruguayan
footballer
(b.
1940
)
- 2014
-
William R. Pogue
, American
astronaut
(b.
1930
)
- 2015
-
M. Stanton Evans
, American
journalist
,
writer
and educator (b.
1934
)
- 2015
-
Lynn Borden
, American
actress
(b.
1937
)
- 2015
-
Ernest Braun
, Austrian-British academic and writer (b.
1925
)
- 2016
-
Martin Crowe
, New Zealand
cricketer
(b.
1962
)
- 2016
-
Ashok Ghosh
, Indian politician (b.
1921
)
- 2016
-
Thanat Khoman
, Thai politician (b.
1914
)
- 2016
-
Natalia Krachkovskaya
, Russian actress (b.
1938
)
- 2016
-
Sophie Dessus
, French politician (b.
1955
)
- 2016
-
Hayabusa
, Japanese
professional wrestler
(b.
1968
)
- 2017
-
Raymond Kopa
, French
footballer
(b.
1931
)
- 2017
-
Misha Mengelberg
, Dutch
jazz
pianist and composer (b.
1935
)
- 2017
-
Tommy Page
, American
singer-songwriter
(b.
1970
)
- 2017
-
Rene Preval
,
President
of
Haiti
(b.
1943
)
- 2017
-
Anne Kristin Sydnes
, Norwegian politician (b.
1956
)
- 2018
-
Vanessa Goodwin
, Australian politician (b.
1969
)
- 2018
-
Roger Bannister
, English athlete and
neurologist
(b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
David Ogden Stiers
, American actor (b.
1942
)
- 2018
-
Lin Hu
, Chinese air force general (b.
1927
)
- 2018
-
Yvon Taillandier
, French artist (b.
1926
)
- 2018
-
Derek Saunders
, English
footballer
(b.
1928
)
- 2018
-
Billy Herrington
, American pornographic actor (b.
1969
)
- 2018
-
Jorge Wagensberg Lubinski
, Spanish
physicist
, academic and writer (b.
1948
)
- 2018
-
Franz Pacher
, Austrian engineer (b.
1919
)
- 2019
-
Peter Hurford
, British organist and composer (b.
1930
)
- 2023
-
Kenzabur? ?e
, Japanese writer (b.
1935
)