What are the important events that happened on March 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 3: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 3 is the 62nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 18, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,740,960,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontadigon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 351 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,455 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 3 Historical Events
- 1284 –The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
- 1820 –The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 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.
- 1923 –TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- 1953 –A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
- 1972 –Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
- 1985 –A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck 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.
- 1991 –United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
- 2009 –The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
Who were born on March 3?
- 1825 –Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (d. 1879)
- 1930 –Ion Iliescu, former President of Romania
- 1933 –Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor
- 1937 –Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1940 –Perry Ellis, fashion designer (d. 1986)
- 1949 –Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
- 1968 –Scott Radinsky, American musician (Pulley, Ten Foot Pole)
- 1970 –Julie Bowen, American actress
- 1978 –Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
- 1983 –Sarah Poewe, South African swimmer
Who died on March 3?
- 1850 –Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
- 1894 –Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
- 1899 –William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
- 1927 –J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
- 1961 –Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
- 1977 –Percy Marmont, British/American actor (b. 1883)
- 1988 –Sewall Wright, American biologist (b. 1889)
- 1993 –Albert Sabin, Polish-born medical researcher (b. 1906)
- 1999 –Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 2001 –Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
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