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, 483,600 hours 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.
- 1904 –Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder.
- 1944 –The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
- 1945 –World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
- 1945 –World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
- 1953 –A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
- 1969 –Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- 1972 –Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
- 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.
- 2005 –Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
Who were born on March 3?
- 1863 –Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947)
- 1883 –Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
- 1895 –Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1927 –Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1930 –K. S. Rajah, Senior Counsel and former Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore (d. 2010)
- 1944 –Lee Holdridge, Haitian-American composer
- 1950 –Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and comedian
- 1971 –Charlie Brooker, English comedian, writer and broadcaster
- 1975 –Aleksandr Abdulkhalikov, Russian professional footballer
- 1982 –Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player
Who died on March 3?
- 1239 –Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1187)
- 1606 –Nyaungyan Min, King of Burma (b. 1557)
- 1744 –Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist (b. 1674)
- 1899 –William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
- 1929 –Katharine Wright, teacher, sister of the Wright Brothers (b. 1874)
- 2001 –Eugene Sledge, U.S. Marine and American author (b. 1923)
- 2003 –Peter Smithson, English architect (b. 1923)
- 2008 –Norman Smith, English singer and record producer (b. 1923)
- 2010 –Keith Alexander, British football manager (b. 1956)
- 2010 –Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913)
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