March 3

Holidays

• United States - Bonza Bottler Day
• Bulgaria - Liberation Day.
• Malawi - Martyr's Day.
• Hinamatsuri - Japanese celebration day for girls.

Events

• 2019 Tornado outbreak March 3, 2019, at least 23 deaths, many more injured. 10,000 customers without power after several tornadoes struck Lee County, southeast Alabama.
• 2018 Conflict between Israel and Palestine: Officials in Gaza claim that Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian farmer who was living on his land in Gaza Strip. A spokesperson for Israel's military said that the soldier was too close to border fence.
• 2017 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch determined that the crash was caused by a pilot error.
• 2016 DHKP/C Insurgency in Turkey: Istanbul police shoot and kill two women belonging to the Revolutionary People's Liberation Army Front who were allegedly trying to ambush a Bayrampasa neighbourhood on the city's European-facing side. Two officers were also injured.
• 2015 A dispute between industrial workers has forced Norwegian Air Shuttle to ground all passengers from Norway, Denmark and Sweden. This action will leave 35,000 people without a home.
• 2014 According to reports, the commander of the Ukrainian frigate Hetman Shaydachniy confirmed that the ship never left for Russia as was reported in Russian media.
• 2013 2013 Lahad Datu standoff:: Fighting erupts in Sabah, Malaysia, leaving seven dead, including five policemen. Four people are taken hostage. The Malaysian Military responds by increasing their troop presence in that area.
• 2012 Syria:
• 2011 2011 Libyan Civil War:
• 2010 After nationwide protests last Sunday, gay people can now receive communion in the dioceses of'sHertogenbosch.
• 2009 The Historisches Archiv der Stadt Koln (Historical Archives), in Cologne, Germany, is destroyed.
• 2008 Exhumed are the remains of Padre pio, a Capuchin monk who died after suffering for decades from inexplicable bleeding wounds to his feet and hands.
• 2007 Ungdomshuset is evicted by Danish police, resulting in more rioting at Norrebro, Copenhagen, and about 100 arrests in a second night.
• 2006 Research In Motion, a Waterloo Ontario-based company, has agreed to pay NTP Inc. $612.5 millions to settle NTP’s patent-infringement lawsuit against RIM. NTP had argued RIM's BlackBerry wireless-communication devices use technology patented by NTP.
• 2005 Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko kills four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers during a drug bust on his property in Rochfort bridge, Alberta. He then commits suicide. This is the most serious incident in peacetime for the RCMP since the North-West Rebellion and 1885.
• 2004 On CBC national television, Abdurahman Khadr and his family admitted to being a terrorist suspect and that they were an al-Qaeda family. They also confessed that they had lived in Afghanistan with Osama Bin Laden.
• 2003 Turkey has indicated that it will vote again on whether the United States can use Turkish bases to launch a military attack against Iraq under intense American pressure.
• 2002 Conflict between Israel and Palestine: A Palestinian sniper fires from a hill close to Ofra, killing seven soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces and three Israeli settlers. Six more are injured. Later, he is captured and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 2001 Jackie Martling's last day on Howard Stern Show.
• 1999 Walter LaGrand is executed by means of gas chamber.
• 1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
• 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM
• 1996 26th Easter Seal Telethon
• 1995 Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce.
• 1994 Damn Yankees opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances
• 1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston
• 1992 Charges are filed in Florida against New York Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman and Dwight Gooden of rape
• 1991 Big Love opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances
• 1990 Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA
• 1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, two years probation for Iran-Contra.
• 1987 Ray Dandridge, third baseman in Negro Leagues, elected to Hall of Fame.
• 1985 Moonlighting with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres
• 1984 Peter Ueberroth is elected baseball commissioner (Effective October 1).
• 1982 US Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams (Democrat-New Jersey).
• 1980 The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
• 1977 Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina / Alexandr Zaitsev
• 1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia.
• 1975 Goodtime Charley opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances
• 1974 Sextet opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
• 1973 Shelter closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances
• 1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA.
• 1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles.
• 1969 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
• 1968 Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) becomes second NHL player to score 1,000 points.
• 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 1962 British Antarctic Territory is formed.
• 1961 Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.
• 1960 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5)
• 1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
• 1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
• 1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham and Jones
• 1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
• 1955 Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time.
• 1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block Saint Louis Browns' attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee.
• 1952 Puerto Rico approves their first self-written constitution.
• 1951 Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 points.
• 1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
• 1946 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill.
• 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511.
• 1943 US defeats Japan andwins Battle of Bismark Sea
• 1942 World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
• 1940 Artie Shaw records Frenesi on RCA Victor label
• 1939 In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
• 1938 Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• 1937 Australia snatches cricket series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down.
• 1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol.
• 1933 New York City premiere of King Kong
• 1931 Star Spangled Banner officially becomes US national anthem
• 1929 A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre fails in Mexico.
• 1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Florida).
• 1924 German and Turkish friendship / trade treaty signed
• 1923 US Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague.
• 1922 WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
• 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating QuTbec Bulldogs.
• 1919 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
• 1918 Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
• 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates
• 1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created.
• 1913 Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC.
• 1911 First US federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri.
• 1909 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat MontrTal Wanderers, 8-3.
• 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France.
• 1905 US Forest Service forms.
• 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.
• 1903 North Carolina becomes first state requiring registration of nurses.
• 1900 US Steel Corporation organizes.
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Famous Birthday

Who was born on March 3?

• Jessica Biel

  American actress, model and singer.

• Jean Harlow

  Actress (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26.

• Julie Bowen

  American actress.

• Ronan Keating

  Pop Singer.

• Laura Harring

  Mexican-American model and actress Miss USA 1985.

• Miranda Richardson

  Southport, England -- Actress (Damage, Crying Game).

• David Faustino

  American actor.

• Diana Barrymore

  American noted family, the daughter of John Barrymore and his second wife, Michael Strange.

• Cathy Downs
• Nathalie Kelley

  Movie Actress.

• Shraddha Kapoor

  Movie Actress.

• James Doohan

  Canadian-American actor (d. 2005).

• Marie Glory

  French actress, she made her first film in 1924, a silent film named "Les Miracles des Loups.

• Gloria Hendry

  American actress.

• Chris Mulkey
• Katherine Waterston

  Actress.

• Mary Page Keller

  Actress (Duet, Scared Stiff, Baby Talk).

• Johanna Wokalek
• Charlie Brooker

  English comedian, writer and broadcaster.

• Andrea Brooks
• Patrick Renna

  American actor.

• Bobby Driscoll

  American actor (Born 1937).

• Alison King

  TV Actress.

• Brian Cox

  British physicist and television presenter.

• Harold Stone

  American actor (d. 2005).

• Matthew Marsden

  English actor and singer.

• John Murray

  Canadian-Scottish oceanographer and biologist (d. 1914).

• Camila Cabello

  Pop Singer.

• Fauve Hautot

  French dancer, born to an accountant and a dance teacher (mother).

• Sarah Poniatowski
• Zico

  Brazilian footballer.

• Adze Mixxe

  American professional astrologer who worked full time doing business and personal consultations, as well as a syndicated radio program and a...

• Lee Radziwill

  American socialite and noted family, the daughter of "Black Jack" Bouvier and sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

• Alexandre Volguine

  Russian-French astrologer, scholar, historian and noted author, a leading figure in twentieth-century French astrology.

• Brian Cox (physicist)
• Stéphane De Groodt
• Juliana Martins
• Ariane Mnouchkine

  French stage and film director, a feminine activist.

• Dragan Stojkovic

  Serbian footballer.

• Micheline Dax

  French stage and film actress, widely known for playing the role of Peggy in the French version of "The Muppets Show".

• Stacie Orrico

  American singer-songwriter.

• Mercedes Masöhn
• Kelly Key
• George Miller (filmmaker)
• Kim Smith
• Meiling Melançon
• Lil Flip

  Rapper.

• Willie Wise
• Victoria Zdrok

  Ukrainian-American porn actress and model.

• Chantal Bourragué
• Katie White
• John Thomas (athlete)
• Deborah Blando
• Robyn Hitchcock

  English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Soft Boys and Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians).

• Fernando Colunga

  Soap Opera Actor.

• Gilbert Le Bris
• Caroline Lamarche

  Belgian writer.

• Wilhelm Manske
• Moby Dick Jacobs
• Adrian (costume designer)
• Paul Guimard

  French writer known for combining his passion for writing with his love of the sea.

• Roger Caillois

  French essayist and author of sociological works who was a member of the French Academy, 1971.

• Maurice Biraud

  French actor and comedian.

• Jean Gaubert
• Jean-Marc Maniatis
• Ion Iliescu

  Romanian engineer and politician 2nd President of Romania.

• Ronald Searle

  American artist whose drawings were published from 1935 and who held noted art exhibits from 1950.

• Ira Glass

  American radio host and producer.

• Raul Alcala

  Mexican cyclist.

• Mariel Zagunis
• Achille Occhetto

  Italian politician and a Parliamentarian for the PCI.

• Robert Gossett
• David Darling
• Thierry de Montbrial
• Jack Crosby

  American film art director and cousin of Bing Crosby.

• Perry Ellis

  American fashion designer; top of the field since 1978.

• Nicolas Freeling

  English writer (Born 1927).

• Edmond Beauchamp

  French film actor who appeared in 70 films between 1928 and 1979.

• Pedro Costa
• Fabiana Cantilo
• Lol Tolhurst
• John Misha Petkevich
• Hilda Braid

  English actress (Born 1929).

• Eleanor McLaughlin

  Scottish politician, elected the first woman Lord Provost in May 1988, associated with the Labour Party.

• Liliane Brackeleer

  Belgian star dancer of a ballet directed by Maurice Bejart.

• Peter O'Sullevan
• Claude Choules

  One of two surviving British veterans of World War I.

• Margaret Bonds

  American pianist and composer (d. 1972).

• Vander Lee
• Alexander Semin

  Russian ice hockey player.

• Roger Poincelet
• Arthur Kornberg

  American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007).

• Jennifer Warnes

  American singer-songwriter and producer.

• Magdalena Mielcarz
• Emile Maeyens
• Anne Feinsilber
• Miriam Jordan
• Edna Best

  Hove, England -- Actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo).

• Santonio Holmes

  American football player.

• Carlo Mazzacurati
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Famous Deaths

• Horst Buchholz

  German actor occasionally seen internationally, as in "Nine Hours To Rama," 1963.

• Lou Costello

  Paterson, New Jersey -- Comedian / actor (Abbott and Costello).

• Sandy Dennis

  American actress, onstage from the early '60s; on-screen from 1961.

• William Frawley

  Actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89.

• Barbara Ruick

  Actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43.

• Georges Perec

  French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist.

• Michael Foot

  English journalist and politician Secretary of State for Employment (d. 2010).

• Cecily Adams

  American actress and casting director (Born 1958).

• Alice Pearce

  Comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52.

• Robert Beatty

  Canadian-British actor who appeared in many films and television series.

• Ivor Cutler

  Scottish pianist songwriter and poet (d. 2006).

• Goffredo Petrassi

  Zagarolo, Italy -- Composer (Beatitudines).

• John Krol

  American Ecclesiastic, a Roman Catholic Cardinal who was a leading conservative who spoke out for nuclear disarmament and helped revamp the...

• Carlos Montoya

  Madrid, Spain -- Guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966).

• Eugene Sledge

  American soldier author and academic (d. 2001).

• John Joseph Krol

  cardinal, dies at age 95.

• Meyer Schapiro

  art historian, dies at age 91.

• Stanislav Shatalin

  Russian economist (500 Days), dies.

• James J Jeffries

  American heavyweight boxer (Born 1875).

• Katharine Wright

  teacher, sister of the Wright Brothers (Born 1874).

• Joseph Fields

  American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer (Born 1895).

• Herge

  Belgian comics creator (Born 1907).

• Sammy White

  Actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65.

• Eugen d'Albert

  Scottish-German pianist and composer (d. 1932).

• Albert Sabin

  Polish-American physician and virologist developed the polio vaccine (d. 1993).

• Harlan Howard

  American country music songwriter (d. 2002).

• Peter Smithson

  English architect co-designed Robin Hood Gardens (d. 2003).

• Amedeo

  Duke of Aosta, Viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43.

• Paul Wittgenstein

  Austrian-American pianist and educator (d. 1961).

• Percy Marmont

  Actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93.

• May Cutler

  Canadian politician and publisher (Born 1923).

• Georges Lonque

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Alfred Sendrey

  Composer, dies at 92.

• Clara Eggink [Ebbele]

  Dutch Poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84.

• Mikhail Artsybashev

  Russian writer (Born 1878).

• JG Parry-Thomas

  Welsh motor-racing driver (Born 1884).

• Willem H Keesom

  Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at age 79.

• Sarah Blanding

  first US female college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at age 86.

• Leo Malet

  Writer, dies at 86.

• Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord

  Journalist, dies at 76.

• Lyle Talbot [Henderson]

  Actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space), dies at 76.

• Max M Fisher

  American philanthropist (Born 1928).

• Isaac D France van de Putte Dutch premier (1866)

  dies at age 79.

• Petrus Cuypers architect (Amsterdam museum)

  dies at age 93.

• Constant W L Scheurleer

  archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at age 59.

• Ernst Cahn

  owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, is executed.

• Koos Speenhoff

  Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at age 75.

• Arthur Vanderpoorten

  Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at age 61.

• Karel Kryl

  folk singer, dies at age 49.

• Frans Goedhart

  Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at age 86.

• Gilbert Gadoffre

  French scholar, dies at age 84.

• Howard Yanks

  founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at age 65.

• Mel Bradford

  American conservative political commentator and professor of literature at the University of Dallas.

• Danny Kaye

  American comic actor.

• Osvaldo Cavandoli

  Italian cartoonist, creator of La Linea (Born 1920).

• Luis Marden

  American photographer and journalist (d. 2003).

• Cyril Metodej Hrazdira

  Composer, dies at 58.

• Anita Morris

  American actress singer and dancer (d. 1994).

• Theodor Philipsen

  Danish painter (Born 1840).

• David Bowman

  Australian lawyer and politician (d. 1916).

• Louis Edmonds

  American actor (Born 1923).

• Alexander Keith

  Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician 13th Mayor of Halifax (d. 1873).

• Fred Friendly

  American journalist and producer (d. 1998).

• Howard Hunter

  American religious leader 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995).

• Sewall Wright

  US geneticist (evolution model), dies at age 98.

• Carlos Marcello

  Tunisian-American gangster (d. 1993).

• Jan [Jean] T Toorop

  Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69.

• Carlo Gatti

  Composer, dies at 88.

• Frank Wilcox

  Actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 66.

• Lois Wilson

  Actress (Crash, Deluge, Bright Eyes).

• Pierre Tisseyre

  Publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85.

• Shiv Verma

  Soldier, dies at 85.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Drake - God's Plan
• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J - Dark Horse
• 2013 Baauer - Harlem Shake
• 2012 Katy Perry - Part Of Me
• 2011 Lady GaGa - Born This Way
• 2010 The Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be
• 2009 Flo Rida - Right Round
• 2008 Flo Rida - Low
• 2007 Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around…Comes Around
• 2006 Beyonce - Check On It
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 Jennifer Lopez - All I Have
• 2002 Ja Rule - Always On Time
• 2001 Joe - Stutter
• 2000 Lonestar - Amazed
• 1999 Monica - Angel Of Mine
• 1998 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
• 1997 The Spice Girls - Wannabe
• 1996 Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day
• 1995 Madonna - Take A Bow
• 1994 Celine Dion - The Power Of Love
• 1993 Peabo Bryson & Regina Bell - A Whole New World
• 1992 Mr. Big - To Be With You
• 1991 Whitney Houston - All The Man That I Need
• 1990 Janet Jackson - Escapade
• 1989 Debbie Gibson - Lost In Your Eyes
• 1988 George Michael - Father Figure
• 1987 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
• 1986 Mr. Mister - Kyrie
• 1985 Wham! - Careless Whisper
• 1984 Van Halen - Jump
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• 1982 The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
• 1981 Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night
• 1980 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• 1979 Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
• 1978 Andy Gibb - (Love Is) Thicker Than Water
• 1977 Barbra Streisand - Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
• 1976 Rhythm Heritage - Theme From S.W.A.T.
• 1975 Eagles - Best Of My Love
• 1974 Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
• 1973 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
• 1972 Nilsson - Without You
• 1971 The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
• 1970 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• 1969 Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
• 1968 Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
• 1967 The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
• 1966 Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets
• 1965 The Temptations - My Girl
• 1964 The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
• 1963 The 4 Seasons - Walk Like A Man
• 1962 Duke Of Earl (Gene Chandler) - Duke Of Earl
• 1961 Chubby Checker - Pony Time
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
• 1958 The Silhouettes - Get A Job
• 1957 Tab Hunter - Young Love
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 twenty one pilots - Heathens
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 The Lumineers - Ho Hey
• 2012 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
• 2011 Cage The Elephant - Shake Me Down
• 2010 Alice In Chains - Your Decision