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March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). There are 303 days remaining.

Events

1431 - Eugenius IV becomes Pope.

1791 - The United States Mint is created by the U.S. Congress.

1820 - The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.

1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.

1845 - For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.

1849 - Minnesota Territory organized as a political division of the United States.

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 - France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.

1863 - Idaho Territory organized as a political division of the United States.

1865 - The U.S. Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.

1873 - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was publicly inaugurated on March 5).

1878 - Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire.

1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created.

1885 - A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.

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.

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 led to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

1931 - The United States adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem.

1933 - Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.

1938 - Glenn Cunningham breaks the world record for the indoor mile run by completing the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.

1939 - In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.

1943 - 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station in London.

1945 - World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers.

1945 - World War II: Hundreds of people die in The Hague after the Royal Air Force mistakenly bombs a civilian area in the city

1949 - The Tucker automobile Corporation folds.

1953 - A Canadian Pacific Comet Jet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11

1955 - Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time.

1957 - In Frankfurt. Germany, Corry Brokken wins the second Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Net als toen" (Like it used to be).

1958 - Nuri as-Said became the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.

1959 - The San Francisco Giants officially name their new stadium Candlestick Park.

1961 - Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.

1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.

1969 - In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

1971 - Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini

1972 - The space probe Pioneer X is launched by NASA.

1974 - A Turkish DC-10 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris killing all 346 aboard.

1974 - Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials reached an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communiion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.

1976 - Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977.

1978 - Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland but are recovered 11 weeks later near Lake Geneva.

1985 - Censorship: Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Huggies Diapers for claiming that their television ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."

1991 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

1995 - In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.

1999 - LaGrand case: The State of Arizona executes Walter LaGrand, a German despite German legal action in the International Court of Justice.

1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones begin their successful attempt to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon without stopping.

2001 - A U.S. Air Force Materials Command C-23 Sherpa transport crashes during stormy weather in central Georgia killing 21.

2002 - Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favour of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.