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 63rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 19, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,709,424,000 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 ‘hexacontatrigon’ day.
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 332 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 4,090 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 3 Historical Events
- 1857 –Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
- 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.
- 1938 –Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 1940 –Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
- 1945 –World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
- 1980 –The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
- 1985 –A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
- 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.
- 2004 –Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agree to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that forms InBev, the world’s largest brewer.
Who were born on March 3?
- 1847 –Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian inventor (d. 1922)
- 1890 –Edmund Lowe, American silent and early talkie film actor (d. 1971)
- 1910 –Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990)
- 1924 –Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (d. 1948)
- 1930 –Ion Iliescu, former President of Romania
- 1949 –Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
- 1950 –Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and comedian
- 1964 –Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist
- 1966 –Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor
- 1986 –Jed Collins, American football player
Who died on March 3?
- 1554 –John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (b. 1503)
- 1706 –Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1653)
- 1953 –James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1875)
- 1991 –Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895)
- 1995 –Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1907)
- 1996 –John Krol, American cardinal (b. 1910)
- 1996 –Marguerite Duras, French writer (b. 1914)
- 2003 –Luis Marden, American photojournalist (b. 1913)
- 2006 –Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
- 2007 –Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist, creator of La Linea (b. 1920)
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