SomeFacts | March 3

On this day - March 3

473 — Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of ...

724 — Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew ...

880 — Emperor Basil I ratifies the decrees of the Fourth Council of ...

1575 — Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Sultan of Bengal Daud Khan ...

1585 — The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of ...

1779 — American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at ...

1795 — The Fédon Rebellion breaks out in Grenada, the rebels seizing ...

1799 — The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of ...

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

1849 — The Territory of Minnesota is created.

1857 — Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on ...

1859 — The two-day Great Slave Auction, one of the largest such ...

1861 — Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, ...

1873 — Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the ...

1875 — Bizet's opera Carmen is first performed at the ...

1875 — The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played ...

1878 — The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its ...

1891 — Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national ...

1913 — Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in ...

1918 — Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, agreeing to withdraw ...

1923 — US magazine Time publishes its first issue.

1924 — The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.

1924 — The Ottoman Caliphate is abolished, when the Caliph Abdülmecid ...

1938 — Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

1939 — In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest ...

1940 — Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of ...

1942 — World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western ...

1943 — World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush ...

1944 — A freight train carrying stowaway passengers stalls in a ...

1944 — The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in ...

1945 — World War II: In poor visibility, the RAF mistakenly bombs the ...

1953 — A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in ...

1958 — Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth ...

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

1972 — Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control ...

1974 — Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near ...

1980 — The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval ...

1985 — A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of ...

1986 — The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become ...

1991 — United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on its final approach to ...

1991 — An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los ...

2005 — Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House ...

2005 — Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane ...

2005 — James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police ...

2013 — A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 48 people ...