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Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Today In History [3rd March, 2015]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today In History [2nd March, 2015]
March 3
1791           Congress passes a resolution authorizing the U.S. Mint; legislation creating the mint will be passed on Apr. 2, 1792.
1803           The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, begins.
1817           The first commercial steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans is opened.
1845           Florida becomes the 27th U.S. state.
1857           Under pretexts, Britain and France declare war on China.
1861           The serfs of Russia are emancipated by Alexander II as part of a program of westernization.
1863           President Abraham Lincoln signs the conscription act compelling U.S. citizens to report for duty in the Civil War or pay $300.00.
1877           Rutherford B. Hays, the republican governor of Ohio is elected president, his election confirmed by an electoral commission after disputed election the previous November.
1878           Russia and the Ottomans sign the treaty of Stenafano, granting independence to Serbia.
1905           The Russian Czar agrees to create an elected assembly.
1918           The Soviets and Germany sign a peace treaty at Brest-Litovsk depriving the Soviets of White Russia.
1919           Boeing flies the first U.S. international airmail from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle, Washington.
1923           The first issue of Time magazine is published. It's editor, Henry R. Luce, is just out of Yale.
1931           President Herbert Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner," the national anthem.
1939           In Bombay, Gandhi begins a fast to protest the state's autocratic rule.
1940           A Nazi air raid kills 108 on a British liner in the English Channel.
1941           Moscow denounces the Axis rule in Bulgaria.
1942           The RAF raids the industrial suburbs of Paris.
1945           Finland declares war on the Axis.
1952           The U.S. Supreme Court upholds New York's Feinberg Law banning Communist teachers in the United States.
1969           Sirhan Sirhan testifies in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy.
1973           Japan discloses its first defense plan since World War II.
1999           Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton.

Born on March 3
1831           George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car.
1847           Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first telephone as well as other devices.
1873           William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor.
1895           Matthew Ridgway, U.S. Army leader in World War II and Korea.
1911           Jean Harlow, (Hell's Angels, Dinner at Eight).
1916           Robert Whitehead, Broadway producer (Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons).
1918           Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.
1920           Robert Searle, cartoonist.
1926           James Merrill, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Divine Comedies).
1927           Nicolas Freeling, crime writer.

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