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Events from History on March 03

1409 : Austrian civil war ends
1431 : Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV
1627 : Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil
1634 : 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1638 : Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
1746 : Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1776 : US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas
1791 : 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1791 : Congress establishes US Mint
1794 : 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D
1794 : Richard Allen founded AME Church
1801 : 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
1803 : 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins
1805 : Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1812 : US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
1813 : Office of surgeon general of the US army forms
1815 : US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute
1817 : Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1820 : Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
1835 : Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans Louisiana
1837 : Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1837 : US president Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas
1838 : Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada
1842 : 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1842 : 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony
1843 : Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of
1843 : establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
1845 : 1st time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto
1845 : Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
1845 : Florida becomes 27th state
1847 : Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
1849 : Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin
1849 : Home Dept (Interior Dept), forms
1849 : Minnesota Territory is organizes
1849 : Territory of Minnesota organizes
1849 : US Department of the Interior established by Congress
1851 : Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3› piece)
1853 : Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
1853 : US Assay Office in NYC authorized
1855 : Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1855 : Congress authorizes registered mail
1861 : Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [OS=Feb 19]
1862 : Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces
1862 : General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid
1863 : 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
1863 : Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 : Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada
1863 : Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 : Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
1863 : Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress
1863 : Idaho Territory forms
1863 : Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1865 : Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established
1865 : Freedmen's Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks
1869 : University of South Carolina opens to all races
1871 : Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
1871 : Congress establishes the civil service system
1873 : Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
1873 : US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively
1875 : Congress authorizes 20› coin, lasts only 3 years
1875 : Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)
1877 : Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president
1878 : Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
1879 : 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
1879 : US Geological Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior
1882 : NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
1883 : Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
1885 : 1st US state (Calif) establishes a permanent forest commission
1885 : American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1885 : Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt)
1885 : US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
1887 : American Protective Assn forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa
1887 : Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1891 : Congress creates Office of Supt of Immigration (Treasury Dept)
1891 : Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
1891 : Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created
1892 : 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
1893 : Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized
1893 : Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Dept of Agriculture
1894 : 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "NY Atlantis"
1894 : 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns
1899 : Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
1899 : George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy
1900 : US Steel Corporation organizes
1901 : Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce
1903 : North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
1905 : US Forest Service forms
1906 : Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
1909 : Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3
1911 : 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Rebel graves opens, Missouri
1913 : Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC
1915 : Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
1917 : Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
1917 : Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar
1917 : Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)
1918 : Richard G”ring's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin
1918 : Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria & Russia sign
1919 : 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
1919 : Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1921 : Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
1922 : Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka
1922 : WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1923 : Time magazine publishes 1st issue [or March 23]
1923 : US Senate rejects membership in Intl Court of Justice, The Hague
1924 : German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
1924 : Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock," premieres in Dublin
1926 : International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)
1931 : "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem
1931 : Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
1933 : German presidential candidate Earnest Th„lmann (KPD) arrested
1933 : Mount Rushmore dedicated
1933 : NYC premiere of "King Kong"
1934 : John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1935 : Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
1936 : Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v S Afr
1937 : Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
1938 : American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
1940 : Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label
1941 : Neth NSB-leader Mussert visits G”ring in Berlin
1942 : 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1943 : #2502 Nummela & #5073
1943 : Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die
1943 : F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in NYC
1943 : US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea
1944 : 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony
1945 : Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter
1945 : RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
1945 : Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed
1945 : US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1945 : US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
1946 : US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1946 : US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1950 : 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
1952 : Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
1953 : Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St
1953 : Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
1953 : Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
1955 : Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
1956 : Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new
1956 : 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY
1956 : Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2)
1956 : Indonesian govt of Harahap resigns
1956 : Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
1957 : Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
1957 : Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham & Jones (GRB)
1957 : Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul (CAN)
1957 : Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colo Springs won by David Jenkins (USA)
1957 : Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss (US)
1958 : KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1958 : Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
1959 : 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
1959 : Brit govt arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
1959 : SF Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park
1960 : 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")
1961 : King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco
1962 : British Antarctic Territory forms
1963 : Senegal adopts constitution
1965 : Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
1965 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 : Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
1966 : James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in NYC
1966 : Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guin‚e
1966 : Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
1966 : Twister hits Jackson Miss; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
1966 : WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 : Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
1967 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 : White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with
1967 : home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)
1968 : "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC
1968 : Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague
1969 : Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1971 : South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
1971 : Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
1972 : Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
1972 : Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall
1973 : "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances
1973 : White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000
1974 : "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
1974 : Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
1974 : George Foreman KOs Ken Norton
1974 : World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1975 : "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances
1975 : Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
1976 : Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
1977 : Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)
1977 : Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
1977 : Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1977 : Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1977 : Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1978 : Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
1980 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 : Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season-4 goals
1981 : NY Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
1982 : Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
1984 : NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)
1985 : "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres
1985 : "My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances
1985 : Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
1985 : National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1985 : Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
1987 : Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
1989 : Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
1989 : Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra
1990 : Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA
1991 : "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances
1991 : 25 die as United Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs
1991 : 4 LA cops beat Rodney King, it is video taped
1991 : Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston
1991 : Iraqi generals & Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
1991 : LA Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video
1991 : Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
1991 : Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 : Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tom‚ e Principal
1991 : Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
1991 : United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
1992 : Charges are filed in Florida against NY Mets Darryl Boston, Vince
1992 : Coleman & Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April)
1992 : Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die
1992 : Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd # retired by NY Islanders
1992 : Pres Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
1993 : Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
1994 : "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances
1994 : "Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels
1994 : IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry
1995 : Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce
1996 : 26th Easter Seal Telethon
1996 : Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
1997 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM
1998 : Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee

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