Historical Events on 3 Mar

Historical Events on 3 Mar

1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated 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.
1791 - The United States Mint is created by the Congress of the United States.
1803 - Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
1817 - The Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory.
1820 - The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 - For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
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.
1863 - The Idaho Territory organizes as a political division of the United States.
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 premieres at the Opéra 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 Spot 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 could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
1913 - Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Ticha, now known as PFC "Cherno More".
1915 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA 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 - Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
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 Atatürk.
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 of the autocratic rule in India.
1940 - Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, 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 were instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
1945 - World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers.
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 in unexplained circumstances.
1974 - Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials reach an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.
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 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.
1985 - Censorship: Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Huggies Diapers, claiming that the television ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."
1991 - United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
1991 - In two concurring referendums: 74 % of the population of Latvia vote for independence from the Soviet Union, in Estonia - 83 %.
1991 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1992 - The nation of Bosnia was 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 agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that formed 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-We
2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.

Historical Events on 2 Mar

Historical Events on 2 Mar

1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
1717 - The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England.
1791 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1807 - The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
1808 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
1815 - Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King.
1836 - Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
1842 - The Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool England is won by Gaylad, ridden by Tom Olliver.
1855 - Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1861 - Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signed the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.
1861 - Nevada Territory and Dakota Territory are organized as political divisions of the United States.
1863 - The United States Congress authorizes track width of 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) for Union Pacific Railroad
1865 - Second Taranaki War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
1867 - The United States Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act
1877 - U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
1888 - The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
1896 - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adwa, marking the first victory of an African nation over a colonial power.
1899 - In the state of Washington, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
1901 - The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
1903 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1917 - The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
1917 - (Old Style) - Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Michael II of Russia.
1919 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
1937 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a surprise collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
1941 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
1943 - World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea - United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
1943 - 173 people die in the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, London, the worst civilian disaster of World War 2.
1946 - Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
1949 - The first automatic street light was installed in New Milford, Conn..
1949 - Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
1953 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
1955 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
1956 - Morocco declares its independence from France.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by tallying 100 points.
1962 - In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup.
1969 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
1969 - In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
1970 - Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
1972 - The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1978 - Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
1989 - Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
1990 - Nelson Mandela elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
1991 - Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1992 - Moldova joins the United Nations.
1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
2003 - The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung Cheng University.
2004 - War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
2004 - Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived flag.
2008 - Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths.
986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks.