Today in History - March 3
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78CE Mar 3,
Origin of Saka Era in India.
(SC, 3/3/02)
468 Mar 3, St. Simplicius was
elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius.
(SC, 3/3/02)
493 Mar 3, Odovacar, the Herulian
leader, surrendered Ravenna to Theodorik, king of the Ostrogoths.
Theodorik invited Odovacar to dinner and had him murdered. Theodorik
united Italy as an Ostrogoth kingdom until 554. [see Mar 15]
(PCh, 1992, p.52)(V.D.-H.K.p.88)(SC, 3/3/02)
1431 Mar 3, Bishop Gabriele
Condulmer (1383-1447) was elected as Pope Eugene IV (1431-1447).
(WUD, 1994 p.491)(PTA, 1980, p.410)(SC, 3/3/02)
1459 Mar 3, Ausias March, Catalan
poet, died.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1554 Mar 3, Johan Frederik de
Greatmoedige (50), ruler of Saxon (1532-47), died.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1627 Mar 3, Piet Heyn conquered 22
ships in Bay of Salvador, Brazil.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1638 Mar 3, Duke Bernard van
Saksen-Weimar occupied Rheinfelden.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1706 Mar 3, Johann Pachelbel
(b.1653), German organist and composer best remembered for his “Canon
in D,” died Nuremberg at age 52.
(WUD, 1994 p.1034)(AP, 3/3/06)
1707 Mar 3, Aurangzeb (88),
Emperor of India (1658-1707), died.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1746 Mar 3, Bonnie Prince Charlie
occupied the Castle of Inverness.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1756 Mar 3, William Godwin
(d.1836), English philosopher, novelist, essayist, political writer
(Caleb Williams), was born. He was the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Wordsworth as a young man was a follower of the radical philosopher
Godwin.
(WUD, 1994, p.606)(WSJ, 6/23/98, p.A18)(SC, 3/3/02)
1776 Mar 3, US commodore Esek
Hopkins occupied Nassau, Bahamas.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1791 Mar 3, Congress established
the U.S. Mint.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1791 Mar 3, The 1st Internal
Revenue Act taxed distilled spirits and carriages.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1793 Mar 3, Charles Sealsfield,
writer (The Making of America), was born.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1794 Mar 3, 1st performance of
Joseph Haydn’s 101st Symphony in D.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1794 Mar 3, Richard Allen founded
AME Church.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1801 Mar 3, 1st US Jewish
Governor, David Emanuel, took office in Georgia.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1803 Mar 3, The first impeachment
trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, began.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1805 Mar 3, Louisiana-Missouri
Territory formed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1813 Mar 3, Office of Surgeon
General of the US army was established.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1817 Mar 3, Mississippi Territory
was divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1817 Mar 3, The first commercial
steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans was opened.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1820 Mar 3, The Missouri
Compromise was passed by Congress. It allowed Missouri to enter the
Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state. [see Mar 6]
(PCh, 1992, p.389)(SC, 3/3/02)
1823 Mar 3, Guyla Andrássy
Sr., premier of Hungary (1867-71), was born.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1831 Mar 3, George Pullman
(inventor: railroad sleeping car; industrialist: Pullman Palace Car
Company), was born.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1835 Mar 3, Congress authorized a
US mint at New Orleans, LA.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1837 Mar 3, US President Andrew
Jackson and Congress recognized the Republic of Texas.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1837 Mar 3, Congress increased
Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1838 Mar 3, Rebellion at Pelee
Island, Ontario, Canada.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1842 Mar 3, 1st performance of
Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1842 Mar 3, 1st US child labor law
regulating working hours was passed in Massachusetts.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1843 Mar 3, US Congress
appropriated $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a
system of electro-magnetic telegraphs."
(SC, 3/3/02)
1845 Mar 3, Georg Cantor (d.1918),
mathematician, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He grew up in
Germany and developed the field of transfinite numbers.
(http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Georg_Cantor)
1845 Mar 3, For the first time,
the U.S. Congress passed legislation on this day overriding a
President's veto. President John Tyler was in office at the time.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1845 Mar 3, Congress authorized
ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1845 Mar 3, Florida became the
27th state.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1847 Mar 3, The inventor of the
telephone, Alexander Graham Bell (teacher of the deaf, inventor:
telephone; founder of Bell Telephone Company), was born in Edinburgh,
Scotland. For two generations the family of Alexander Graham Bell was
recognized as leading authorities on elocution and speech correction.
Graham's father, Alexander Melville Bell's Standard Elocutionist went
through nearly 200 editions in English.
(SFEM, 1/11/98, p.12)(AP, 3/3/98)(HC, Internet,
3/3/98)(HNQ, 12/20/98)
1847 Mar 3, Post Office Department
was authorized to issue postage stamps.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1848 Mar 3, Lajos Kossuth made a
speech demanding parliamentary government for Hungary and
constitutional government for the rest of Austria.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Kossuth)
1849 Mar 3, The US Home
Department, forerunner of the Interior Department, was established.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1849 Mar 3, US Congress created
the Minnesota Territory.
(AP, 3/3/99)
1849 Mar 3, The US Gold Coinage
Act authorized the $20 Double Eagle gold coin.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1851 Mar 3, Congress authorized
the smallest US silver coin, a 3¢ piece.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1853 Mar 3, A transcontinental
railroad survey was authorized by Congress.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1853 Mar 3, US Assay Office in NYC
was authorized.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1855 Mar 3, Congress approved
$30,000 to test camels for military use. Sec. of War Jefferson Davis
sent agents to northern Africa to purchase a small herd of camels and
sent them to New Mexico to transport goods to California
(SC, 3/3/02)(SFC, 2/20/04, p.A22)
1855 Mar 3, Registration of
letters was authorized by Congress.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1855 Mar 3, Architect Robert Mills
(b.1781) designer of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., died.
The structure, begun in 1848, was not completed until 1884.
(WSJ, 2/16/08,
p.W18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mills_(architect))
1857 Mar 3, Under pretexts,
Britain and France declared war on China.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1861 Mar 3, Russian Czar
Alexander II issued a manifest and statutes to end feudal control of
serfs as part of a program of westernization.
(HN, 3/3/99)(LHC,3/1/03)(WSJ, 12/6/07, p.D7)
1862 Mar 3, General Pope laid
siege in front of New Madrid, MO.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1863 Mar 3, President Abraham
Lincoln signed the conscription act compelling U.S. citizens to report
for duty in the Civil War or pay $300.00. 86,724 men paid the exemption
cost to avoid service. The inequality of this arrangement led to draft
riots in New York.
(HN, 3/3/99)(HNQ, 10/18/00)
1863 Mar 3, Abraham Lincoln
approved a charter for National Academy of Sciences.
(www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ABOUT_main_page)
1863 Mar 3, Free city delivery of
mail was authorized by the U.S. Postal Service on this day. It replaced
zone postage and 449 letter carriers were hired.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)(SC, 3/3/02)
1863 Mar 3, Congress authorized a
US mint at Carson City, NV, and Gold certificates as currency.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1863 Mar 3, Federal ironclad ships
bombed Fort McAllister, Georgia.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1863 Mar 3, Idaho Territory formed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1865 Mar 3, US Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was established to help destitute free
blacks.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1869 Mar 3, University of South
Carolina opened to all races.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1871 Mar 3, Congress passed the
Indian Appropriation Act, which revoked the sovereignty of Indian
nations and made Native Americans wards of the American government. The
act eliminated the necessity of treaty negotiating and established the
policy that tribal affairs could be managed by the U.S. government
without tribal consent.
(HNQ, 5/15/98)
1871 Mar 3, Congress established
the civil service system.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1873 Mar 3, William Green,
President of the American Federation of Labor (1924-52), was born.
(HN, 3/3/99)(SC, 3/3/02)
1873 Mar 3, Congress authorized
federal departmental postage stamps.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1873 Mar 3, US Congress and
government raised their own salary, retroactively.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1875 Mar 3, The opera Carmen,
composed by Georges Bizet (1873), opened in Paris at the Opera-Comique.
The opera was based on a novella by Prosper Merimee (1803-1870).
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/merimee.htm)(AP, 3/3/98)
1875 Mar 3, The 1st recorded
hockey game took place in Montreal. [see 1855]
(SC, 3/3/02)
1875 Mar 3, Congress authorized a
20¢ coin. It lasted only 3 years.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1877 Mar 3, Rutherford B. Hayes
took the oath of office as the 19th president of the United States in a
private ceremony. A public swearing-in took place two days later.
(AP, 3/3/02)
1878 Mar 3, Russia and the
Ottomans signed the treaty of San Stefano, granting independence to
Serbia. With the Treaty of San Stefano (and subsequent negotiations in
Berlin) in the wake of the last Russo-Turkish War, the Ottoman Empire
lost its possession of numerous territories including Bulgaria,
Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia. The Russo-Turkish wars dated to the
17th century, the Russians generally gaining territory and influence
over the declining Ottoman Empire. In the last war, Russia and Serbia
supported rebellions in the Balkans. In concluding the Treaty of San
Stefano, the Ottomans released control of Montenegro, Romania and
Serbia, granted autonomy to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and allowed an
autonomous state of Bulgaria to be placed under Russian control.
(HN, 3/3/99)(HNQ, 2/23/01)
1879 Mar 3, US geological survey
director was authorized in Department of the Interior.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1879 Mar 3, Belva Ann Bennett
Lockwood became the first woman to be admitted to practice before the
U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 3/3/05)
1882 Mar 3, New York Steam Corp
began distributing steam to Manhattan buildings.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1883 Mar 3, Congress authorized
the 1st steel vessels in US navy.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1885 Mar 3, The United States
Congress passed the Major Crimes Act (18 U.S.C. 1153). It placed seven
major crimes under federal jurisdiction if they are committed by a
Native American in Native territory regardless of whether the victim of
the crime was Native.
(http://supreme.justia.com/us/437/634/)
1885 Mar 3, The U.S. Post Office
began offering special delivery for first-class mail.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1885 Mar 3, California became the
1st US state to establish a permanent forest commission.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1885 Mar 3, American Telephone and
Telegraph (AT&T) incorporated as a subsidiary of Bell Telephone to
build and operate a long distance network.
(SC, 3/3/02)(SFC, 7/23/04, p.C1)
1887 Mar 3, Anne Mansfield
Sullivan arrived at the Alabama home of Capt. and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller
to become the teacher of Helen, their blind and deaf 6-year-old
daughter.
(AP, 3/3/00)
1887 Mar 3, The anti-Catholic
American Protective Association formed in Clinton, IA.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1891 Mar 3, Congress created the
Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department).
(SC, 3/3/02)
1891 Mar 3, Congress created the
US Courts of Appeal.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1892 Mar 3, 1st cattle
tuberculosis test in US was made at Villa Nova, PA.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1893 Mar 3, Congress authorized
1st federal road agency in the Department of Agriculture.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1893 Mar 3, Columbian Isabella
silver quarter was authorized.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1894 Mar 3, The first Greek
newspaper in America was published on this day. It was known as the
"New York Atlantis".
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)(SC, 3/3/02)
1894 Mar 3, British PM William
Gladstone submitted his resignation to Queen Victoria, ending his
fourth and final premiership. Gladstone was later quoted as saying this
year: “Do not let me be told that one nation has no authority over
another. Every nation, and if need be every human being, has authority
on behalf of humanity and justice.”
(AP, 3/3/08)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.98)
1895 Mar 3, General Matthew
Ridgeway, U.S. Army leader in World War II and Korea, was born.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1895 Mar 3, Ragnar Frisch,
economist (1st Nobel prize in economy-1969), was born in Norway.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1899 Mar 3, Congress authorized
the Lafayette silver dollar.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1899 Mar 3, George Dewey became
the 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1900 Mar 3, US Steel Corporation
organized.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1901 Mar 3, Congress created the
National Bureau of Standards in Department of Commerce.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1902 Mar 3, Isaac D. France van de
Putte (79), Dutch premier (1866), died.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1903 Mar 3, North Carolina became
the 1st state requiring registration of nurses.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1905 Mar 3, US Forest Service
formed. President Theodore Roosevelt successfully lobbied Congress to
create the Forest Service and appointed Gifford Pinchot, a fellow
conservationist, to run the agency. Pinchot had studied forestry in
Europe and worked for the U.S. government in various forestry positions
since 1896. He stayed with the Forest Service until 1910 and
contributed greatly to its early development and national attitudes
towards conservation with his enthusiasm. In 1912, he helped former
President Roosevelt found the Bull Moose Party. He later went on to
serve as governor of Pennsylvania. His autobiography “Breaking New
Ground,” was published in 1947, a year after his death.
(WSJ, 2/25/97, p.A22)(HNQ, 4/20/01)(SC, 3/3/02)
1905 Mar 3, The Russian Czar
agreed to create an elected assembly.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1906 Mar 3, Vuia I aircraft, built
by Romanian Traja Vuia, was tested in France.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1911 Mar 3, Jean Harlow (Harlean
Carpenter),actress (Platinum Blonde, Red Dust, Bombshell, Dinner at
Eight, China Seas, Libeled Lady), was born.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1911 Mar 3, The 1st US federal
cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opened at Jefferson Barracks
National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1913 Mar 3, Ida B. Wells-Barnett
demonstrated for female suffrage in Washington DC.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1915 Mar 3, The now famous film,
"Birth of a Nation", debuted in New York City. The motion picture
brought Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh and Wallace Reid to the silver screen
in what has frequently been called the greatest silent film ever
produced.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1915 Mar 3, The National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), a NASA forerunner, was created. It
was the first US government sponsored organization in support of
aviation research and development.
(SC, 3/3/02)(NPub, 2002, p.9)
1916 Mar 3, Robert Whitehead,
Broadway producer (Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons), was born.
(HN, 3/3/01)
1917 Mar 3, Congress passed the
1st excess profits tax on corporations.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1918 Mar 3, Arthur Kornberg, Nobel
Prize-winning biochemist (1959), was born.
(HN, 3/3/01)(SC, 3/3/02)
1918 Mar 3, Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Russia signed the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russian participation in World War
I. Germany and Austria forced Soviet Russia to sign the Peace of Brest,
which called for the establishment of 5 independent countries: Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk,
which ended Russian participation in World War I, was annulled by the
November 1918 armistice. The treaty deprived the Soviets of White
Russia.
(HN, 3/3/99)(LHC, 3/1/03)(AP, 3/3/08)
1918 Mar 3, Richard Göring's
"Seeschlacht" premiered in Berlin.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1919 Mar 3, The US Supreme Court
ruled that falsely shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater is not
protected by the first amendment. "Shouting fire in a crowded theater"
is a misquote that refers to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion in
the US Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States and that is used to
express the limits upon which free speech may be expressed under the
terms of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
(Econ, 10/13/07,
p.67)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater)
1919 Mar 3, Boeing flew the first
U.S. international airmail from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle,
Wash.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1919 Mar 3, Communist Party in
Germany announced a general strike.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1920 Mar 3, Robert Searle,
cartoonist, was born.
(HN, 3/3/01)
1921 Mar 3, Allen Ginsberg, beat
generation poet (1969 Arts and Letters Award), was born.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1921 Mar 3, In India the Central
Legislative Assembly opened. The Committee on Public Accounts was first
set up in the wake of the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms. The Finance
Member of the Executive Council used to be the Chairman of the
Committee. The Secretariat assistance to the Committee was rendered by
the then Finance Department (later the Ministry of Finance). This
position continued right up to 1949.
(http://tinyurl.com/2tnbet)(www.parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/intro/p14.htm)
1922 Mar 3, WWJ-AM in Detroit, MI,
began radio transmissions.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1922 Mar 3, Italian fascists
occupied Fiume and Rijeka.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1923 Mar 3, US Senate rejected
membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1923 Mar 3, Time magazine, founded
by Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce, made its debut.
(AP, 3/3/07)
1924 Mar 3, Sean O'Casey's "Juno
and the Paycock" premiered in Dublin.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1924 Mar 3, German and Turkish
friendship and trade treaty was signed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1924 Mar 3, Kemal Ataturk forced
the abolition of the Muslim caliphate through the protesting assembly
and banned all Kurdish schools, publications and associations. This
ended the Ottoman Empire and created the modern Middle East, though
Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia were still colonies of Britain and
France.
(WSJ, 2/11/99, p.A24)(SSFC, 10/14/01, p.A3)
1926 Mar 3, James Merrill,
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Divine Comedies), was born.
(HN, 3/3/01)
1926 Mar 3, International
Greyhound Racing Association formed in Miami, FL.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1927 Mar 3, Nicolas Freeling,
crime writer, was born.
(HN, 3/3/01)
1930 Mar 3, Bert Lahr ("The Wizard
of Oz") and Kate "God Bless America" Smith starred as "Flying High"
opened at the Apollo Theatre in New York City. The show had a run of 45
weeks at what is now the most famous black entertainment theatre in
America.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1931 Mar 3, Cab Calloway and his
Orchestra recorded "Minnie the Moocher" on Brunswick Records. It was
the first recording of the famous bandleader's theme song. The song was
featured prominently in the motion picture, "The Blues Brothers"
(1980), starring John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1931 Mar 3, Pres. Hoover signed a
bill making “The Star-Spangled Banner”, written by Francis Scott Key,
the national anthem of the United States: act of Congress (46 Stat.L.
1508). The melody was originally an English drinking song, “To Anacreon
in Heaven.”
(HFA, ‘96, p.26)(WSJ, 9/13/95, p.B-1)(AP,
3/3/98)(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)(HNQ, 2/16/02)
1933 Mar 3, Mount Rushmore was
dedicated.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1933 Mar 3, NYC premiere of "King
Kong."
(SC, 3/3/02)
1933 Mar 3, German Presidential
candidate Earnest Thälmann (KPD) was arrested.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1934 Mar 3, It was reported that
Alf Haraldsen had found some 150 pounds of ambergris on the shore of
Bolinas, Ca. The material, formed in the intestines of whales and used
in the manufacture of perfume, was estimated to be worth $75,000.
(SSFC, 3/1/09, DB p.50)
1934 Mar 3, John Dillinger broke
out of jail using a wooden pistol in Crown Point, Indiana.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1935 Mar 3, Dutch Revolutionary
Socialist Worker's party (RSAP) was formed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1938 Mar 3, A world record for the
indoor mile run was set at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH this day.
Glenn Cunningham made the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1936 Mar 3, Standard Oil of
California struck oil at Damman No 7. Aramco made the first commercial
oil find in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The English Arabist, H. St. John
Philby, orchestrated the Aramco concession in Saudi Arabia.
(HN, 3/15/98)(WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A16)(SFEC, 6/27/99,
p.T3)(www.chevron.com)
1939 Mar 3, The new Goldfish
swallowing craze began to sweep college campuses getting a start at the
Ivy League's Harvard University.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1939 Mar 3, Eleanor Roosevelt
christened Pan Am's new Boeing built Yankee Clipper.
(SFEM, 2/13/00, p.38)
1939 Mar 3, In Bombay, Ghandi
began a fast to protest the state's autocratic rule.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1940 Mar 3, Artie Shaw and his
orchestra recorded "Frenesi" for RCA Victor.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1940 Mar 3, A Nazi air raid killed
108 on a British liner in the English Channel.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1941 Mar 3, Netherlands NSB-leader
Mussert visited Göring in Berlin.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1941 Mar 3, Moscow denounced the
Axis rule in Bulgaria.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1942 Mar 3, Canada's Avro
Lancaster military plane made its 1st combat flight.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1942 Mar 3, The RAF raided the
industrial suburbs of Paris.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1943 Mar 3, F. Ryerson and Cohn
Claues' "Harriet" premiered in New York NY.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1943 Mar 3, US defeated Japan in
the Battle of Bismarck Sea.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1943 Mar 3, A bomb fleeing crowd
fell into London shelter and 173 died.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1944 Mar 3, 1st performance of
corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1945 Mar 3, Mystery fans remember
this day as they gathered around the radio set, listening to the Mutual
Broadcasting System as Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the
first time. The cartoon character was created by Joe Schuster and Jerry
Siegel at DC Comics.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)(SFC, 7/8/04, p.B9)
1945 Mar 3, US 7th Army occupied
last part of Westwall (Germany).
(SC, 3/3/02)
1945 Mar 3, Churchill visited
Montgomery's headquarters.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1945 Mar 3, Finland declared war
on the Axis.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1945 Mar 3, Roermond-Venlo,
Netherlands, was freed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1945 Mar 3, RAF bombing error hit
The Hague and killed 511.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1945 Mar 3, The Allies fully
secured the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during
World War II.
(AP, 3/3/07)
1952 Mar 3, "Whispering Streets"
debuted on ABC Radio, remaining on the air until Thanksgiving week,
1960. The end of that show brought down the curtain on what is called
"the last day of the radio soap opera" (November 25, 1960).
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1952 Mar 3, The U.S. Supreme Court
upheld New York's Feinberg Law banning Communist teachers in the U.S.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1952 Mar 3, Puerto Rico approved
their 1st self written constitution.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1953 Mar 3, Canadian Comet crashed
at Karachi, 11 killed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1956 Mar 3, Indonesian government
of Harahap resigned.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1957 Mar 3, Corry Brokken won
Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then."
(SC, 3/3/02)
1958 Mar 3, Nuri ash Said became
premier of Iraq.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1959 Mar 3, The new home of the
San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named, Candlestick
Park. The name was chosen in a contest to name the newly-built stadium.
Al Dermody (1910-2004), the contest winner didn't have to look far, as
the windswept and chilly confines of the National League's least
favorite stadium are located just a few hundred feet from Candlestick
Point, on San Francisco Bay. In 1995, the venerable name, Candlestick
Park was changed to 3COMM Park, after a relatively small area computer
software developer bid a half-million dollars for the rights to the
stadium name – beating out such giants as Apple Computer, IBM and
others.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)(SFC, 9/24/04, p.B6)
1959 Mar 3, A SF Bay Area
earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale in Berkeley.
(SSFC, 3/1/09, DB p.50)
1959 Mar 3, Pioneer 4, the 1st US
probe to enter solar orbit, was launched.
(SFC, 10/2/07, p.A6)
1959 Mar 3, British government
arrested Hastings Banda of Nyasaland (later Malawi), and ended an
emergency crisis.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1959 Mar 3, Lou Costello (b.1906),
American film comedian, died. He paired with Bud Abbott in numerous
films and the famous "Who's on First" routine.
(HN, 3/6/99)(MC, 3/6/02)(SC, 3/3/02)
1960 Mar 3, The 9th largest
snowfall in NYC history dropped14.5".
(SC, 3/3/02)
1960 Mar 3, The French cargo
ship "La Coubre," laden with Belgian weapons, exploded in Havana
Harbor and killed 136 [101] people. The blast was blamed on US agents.
(USAT, 10/8/97, p.8A)(SFC, 1/28/00, p.A14)
1961 Mar 3, King Hassan II, the
17th of the Alawite dynasty, ascended to throne of Morocco. He
succeeded his father Mohamed V.
(SFEC,11/16/97, p.A21)(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)(SC,
3/3/02)
1962 Mar 3, British Antarctic
Territory was formed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1963 Mar 3, Senegal adopted a
constitution.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1965 Mar 3, Temptations' "My Girl"
reached #1.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1965 Mar 3, US performed a nuclear
test at Nevada Test Site.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1965 Mar 3, USSR performed a
nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk, USSR.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1966 Mar 3, James Goldman's "Lion
in Winter" premiered in NYC.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1966 Mar 3, Rock group Buffalo
Springfield formed with Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1966 Mar 3, "Lightnin' Lou"
Christie was striking gold this day for his hit "Lightnin' Strikes".
Christie was born Lugee Sacco and joined a group called The Classics
before making his first recording in 1960. In 1961, he recorded under
the name Lugee & The Lions until changing to Lou Christie for a
string of hits beginning in 1963. Other notable tunes from Christie's
Top 40 appearances include: "The Gypsy Cried", "Two Faces Have I",
"Rhapsody in the Rain" and "I'm Gonna Make You Mine" – all displaying
his trademark falsetto voice, similar to that of Frankie Valli of The
Four Seasons. "Lightnin' Strikes" was Christie's only million seller.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1966 Mar 3, An F5 tornado hit
Jackson, Miss. 57 people were killed and nearly 1000 homes destroyed.
Damages were estimated at $18 million.
(SFC, 3/3/09, p.D6)
1967 Mar 3, The US performed a
nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site. The Mushroom test was part of
Operation Latchkey.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Latchkey)
1967 Mar 3, Grenada became an
associated state of Britain. Full independence came on Feb 7, 1974.
(http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/wha/grenada9011.html)
1968 Mar 3, The musical "Here's
Where I Belong" opened and closed at Billy Rose Theater in NYC. The
book was by Alex Gordon and Terrence McNally, lyrics by Alfred Uhry,
and music by Robert Waldman.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%27s_Where_I_Belong)
1968 Mar 3, The embassies of
Greece, Portugal and Spain were bombed in the Hague.
(http://1968ineurope.sneakpeek.de/index.php/chronologies/index/42)
1968 Mar 3, The Tet offensive at
Hue, South Vietnam, ended with the crushing of the last Viet Cong
resistance. North Vietnamese troops had captured the imperial palace in
Hue, South Vietnam. US troops reconquered Hue, Vietnam.
(WUD, 1994, p.1687)(HN,
2/24/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hue)
1969 Mar 3, Sirhan Sirhan
testified in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1969 Mar 3, Apollo 9 blasted off
from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module. It carried
astronauts James McDivitt, Russell Schweickart and David Scott and made
151 Earth orbits over 10 days.
(AP, 3/3/98)(SSFC, 3/8/09, p.B2)
1970 Mar 3, Systems and Services
Company went public. John Baugh (1916-2007) created Sysco Corp. by
combining 9 regional companies, most of them frozen-food distributors
like his Zero Foods Co., founded right after WW II.
(WSJ, 3/17/07, p.A5)
1971 Mar 3, South African
Broadcasting Corp lifted its ban on the Beatles.
(www.southafrica.to/history/history1948.htm)
1972 Mar 3, Sculpted figures of
Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson were completed at
Stone Mountain, GA.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain)
1973 Mar 3, In the 15th Grammy
Awards winners included: “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” sung by
Roberta Flack.
(www.metrolyrics.com/1973-grammy-awards.html)
1973 Mar 3, "Shelter" closed at
John Golden Theater in NYC after 31 performances.
(www.broadwayworld.com/bwidb/sections/productions/index.php?var=7111)
1973 Mar 3, Japan disclosed its
first defense plan since World War II.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1974 Mar 3, "Sextet" opened at
Bijou Theater in NYC for 9 performances.
(www.broadwayworld.com/bwidb/sections/productions/index.php?var=2784)
1974 Mar 3, A Turkish Airlines
DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris and 346
people were killed. It was the worst air disaster to date.
(AP,
3/3/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981)
1975 Mar 3, "Goodtime Charley"
opened at Palace Theater in NYC for 104 performances.
(www.musicalheaven.com/Detailed/1787.html)
1976 Mar 3, Pierre Moliniere
(b.1900), French artist and photographer, shot himself to death rather
than face prostate surgery and a reduced sex life.
(WSJ, 11/22/96,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Molinier)
1976 Mar 3, Mozambique closed its
border with Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
(http://tinyurl.com/3c8j7u)
1978 Mar 3, The remains of
comedian Charles Chaplin were stolen by extortionists from his grave in
Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. The body was recovered near Lake Geneva
11 weeks later.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1978 Mar 3, In Rhodesia Ian Smith,
Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Rev. Sithole and Senator Chirau signed an
internal settlement to bring black majority rule into effect by Dec 31.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(SFC, 11/23/07, p.B13)
1979 Mar 3, Mustafa Barzani
(b.1903), Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), died in Washington, DC. He was
succeeded by his son Massoud.
(SFC, 9/4/96, A7)(WSJ, 12/20/02,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Barzani)
1980 Mar 3, The submarine
Nautilus, the world’s 1st atomic ship, was decommissioned at the Mare
Island Shipyard in Vallejo, Ca.
(SFC, 3/4/05, p.F2)
1981 Mar 3, In Los Angeles, Ca.,
Stanley "Tookie" Williams (1953-2005) was convicted in the 1979 killing
of 4 people and sentenced to death. The co-founder of the Crips street
gang (1971), who denied the murders, took up writing for children while
in prison and created the Internet Project for Street Peace. In 2000 a
member of the Swiss parliament nominated him for the 2001 Nobel Peace
Prize. A TV film on Williams, "Redemption," was scheduled to air in
2004. In 2005 he received a “President’s Call to Service Award.”
Williams was executed Dec 13, 2005.
(www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/williams1003.htm)(SFC, 2/13/04,
p.A25)(SFC, 8/6/05, p.A2)
1981 Mar 3, William S. Burroughs
Jr. (b.1947), writer, died. He bore the name of both his father, a Beat
writer, and his great grandfather, the original inventor of the
Burroughs adding machine. His 2 novels included “Speed” and “Kentucky
Ham.” In 2006 David Ohle edited and compiled “Cursed From Birth: The
short Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs,_Jr.)(SSFC,
12/24/06, p.M3)
1982 Mar 3, US Dist. Judge Harold
Greene, who was immersed in an AT&T antitrust case, surprised
broadcasters and Justice with an order declaring that limits on TV
commercials violated antitrust laws.
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3169/is_33_40/ai_64160619)
1983 Mar 3, Peter Ivers (b.1946),
American musician, was found bludgeoned to death in his Los Angeles
apartment. In 2008 Josh Frank authored “In heaven Everything Is Fine:
The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave
Theater.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ivers)(SFC,
8/29/08, p.E1)
1983 Mar 3, Georges Remi (b.1907),
Belgian author and illustrator, died. In 1929 Remi, under the pseudonym
Herge, created the cartoon character Tintin. Remi is known as the
father of the modern European comic book. In 2006 Tom McCarthy authored
“Tintin and the Secret of Literature.” In 2007 Philippe Goddin authored
“Herge: Lignes de vie,” a biography of Herge.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herg%C3%A9)(Econ,
6/24/06, p.98)(Econ, 12/20/08, p.84)
1984 Mar 3, Peter Ueberroth
(b.1937) was elected baseball commissioner, effective Oct 1.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ueberroth)
1985 Mar 3, The TV series
"Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premiered.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0088571/episodes#season-1)
1985 Mar 3, "My One and Only"
closed at St. James Theater in NYC after 767 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4221)
1985 Mar 3, Kevin McHale of
Memphis State University set a Boston Celtics scoring record this night
as he poured in 56 points in a 138-129 win over the Detroit Pistons.
(http://celticsbandwagon.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html)
1985 Mar 3, The group, Women
Against Pornography awarded one of its dubious "Pig Awards" to Huggies
Diapers! The activists said that the diaper TV ads have "crossed the
line between eye-catching and porn."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_3)
1985 Mar 3, National Union of Mine
Workers in Britain voted to end a 51 week strike that proved to be the
longest and most violent walkout in British history.
(SC, 3/3/02)(AP, 3/3/05)
1987 Mar 3, Danny Kaye (b.1913),
actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment
icon, died in Los Angeles.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kaye)
1988 Mar 3, The U.S. House of
Representatives rejected a package of $30 million in non-lethal aid for
the Nicaraguan Contras.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1989 Mar 3, Senate Republican
Leader Bob Dole suggested that Defense Secretary-designate John Tower
be given the opportunity to appear before the Senate to answer
allegations against him.
(AP, 3/3/99)
1989 Mar 3, Robert McFarlane,
former US National Security Advisor under Pres. R. Reagan, got a
$20,000 fine and 2 years probation for the Iran-Contra affair.
(www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_01.htm)
1989 Mar 3, Machinists struck
Eastern Airlines and pilots honored the picket lines.
(SC,
3/3/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Airlines)
1990 Mar 3, President Bush sparked
controversy by expressing opposition to the settlement of Soviet Jewish
refugees in East Jerusalem.
(AP, 3/3/00)
1990 Mar 3, Carole Gist (20) of
Michigan was 1st black crowned 39th Miss USA.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1991 Mar 3, "Big Love" opened at
Plymouth Theater in NYC for 41 performances.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1991 Mar 3, American General H.
Norman Schwarzkopf and Saudi Lt. Gen. Prince Khalid discussed
cease-fire terms with Iraqi commanders Lt. Gen. Mohammed Abdez Rahman
al-Dagitistani and Lt. Gen. Sabin Abdel-Aziz al Douri. The Iraqis’
astonishment at the disparity involved in the prisoner exchange
demonstrated how ignorant they still were of the magnitude of their own
defeat.
(HNPD, 3/3/99)(AP, 3/3/01)
1991 Mar 3, In Los Angeles police
arrested ex-convict Rodney King after an 8-mile chase. King resisted
arrest and the police used force to subdue him. A local resident
captured part of the arrest and beating on video tape. The incident led
to a police trial and acquittal that sparked a violent riot. In 1998
Lou Cannon published “Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the
Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD” documenting the whole affair.
(WSJ, 2/5/98, p.A20)(SFEC, 2/8/98, BR p.1)(AP,
3/3/98)
1991 Mar 3, 25 people were killed
when a United Airlines Boeing 737 inexplicably crashed while
approaching the airport in Colorado Springs, Colo.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1991 Mar 3, Arthur Murray (95),
dance instructor, died of pneumonia.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1991 Mar 3, Latvia and Estonia
voted to become independent of the USSR.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1991 Mar 3, Miguel Trovoada was
installed as President of Sao Tomé e Principal. The former prime
minister had returned from exile to run for president.
(SC, 3/3/02)(AP, 7/18/03)
1991 Mar 3, Switzerland voted on
lowering voting age from 20 to 18.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, President Bush
apologized for raising taxes after pledging not to.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, In so-called “Junior
Tuesday” political contests, Democrat Paul Tsongas won primaries in
Maryland and Utah; Bill Clinton won in Georgia, Jerry Brown in
Colorado. Among Republicans, President George H.W. Bush swept Georgia,
Maryland and Colorado.
(AP, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, Charges were filed in
Florida against New York Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman and Dwight
Gooden for rape. They were dropped in April.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1992 Mar 3, Bosnia’s Muslims and
Croats voted for independence in a referendum boycotted by Serbs.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 Mar 3, In Turkey a gas
explosion in underground coal mine in Kozlu, near the Black Sea port of
Zonguldak, claimed 270 lives.
(AP, 3/3/02)(AP, 2/24/10)
1993 Mar 3, Howard Stern radio
show premiered in Boston on WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1993 Mar 3, Albert Sabin (86),
physician, developer of the oral polio vaccine, died in Washington.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1994 Mar 3, "Damn Yankees" opened
at Marquis Theater in NYC for 510 performances.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1994 Mar 3, "Philoktetes
Variations", with Ron Vawter, premiered in Brussels.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1994 Mar 3, Amid continuing trade
tensions with Japan, President Clinton issued an executive order
reviving an expired provision of U.S. trade law known as Super 301,
which provided a strict timetable for results.
(AP, 3/3/99)
1995 Mar 3, President Clinton held
a news conference in which he asserted his administration had built a
safer world and stronger economy while Republicans were trying to cut
money for the needy to give tax breaks to the rich.
(AP, 3/3/00)
1995 Mar 3, The dollar plunged to
a new low against the Japanese yen. In response the Fed and US Treasury
bought more yen and were joined by 13 central banks. American and Japan
intervened in 1995 to halt the dollar’s slide against the yen. The
dollar stabilized.
(AP, 3/3/00)(Econ, 3/29/08, p.100)
1995 Mar 3, Howard Hunter (87), US
leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), died.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1995 Mar 3, Camilla Parker Bowles
and her husband Andrew divorced.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1995 Mar 3, A car bomb exploded at
a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, and 10 people were killed.
(www.dawn.com/2004/06/09/local4.htm)
1996 Mar 3, The 26th Easter Seal
Telethon was held.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1996 Mar 3, Israel declared
all-out war on the militant group Hamas after a bus bomb in Jerusalem
killed 19 people, including the bomber, the third such suicide attack
in eight days.
(WSJ, 3/4/96, p. A-1)(AP, 3/3/01)
1996 Mar 3, Marguerite Duras,
French writer, died at age 81 in Paris. She was very prolific and was
best known for her novel “The Lover.” In 2008 her Wartime Writings:
1943-1949,” translated by Linda Coverdale, was published.
(WSJ, 3/4/96, p. A-1)(SSFC, 3/30/08, Books p.1)
1997 Mar 3, Vice President Al
Gore, under fire for his aggressive role in campaign fund raising,
acknowledged he'd solicited donations from his White House office but
insisted he did not do "anything wrong, much less illegal." But he said
he would never do it again.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1997 Mar 3, It was announced that
scientists had discovered why some people get fat, while others do not.
They identified a gene that produces the UCP2 protein which tends to
convert fat to energy rather than leaving it stored as fat.
(SFEC, 3/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Mar 3, It was reported that
the US FCC was prepared to set aside a portion of the airwaves for
national transmission of CD-quality sound, digital audio radio. It was
thought that it might lead to the first form of pay radio.
(SFEC, 3/3/97, p.A6)
1997 Mar 3, Marine archaeologists
announced the discovery of Blackbeard's flagship--Queen Anne’s Revenge.
Reportedly born Edward Drummond in Bristol, England, around 1680, he
later changed his name to Thatch or Teach and became a privateer--in
essence a licensed pirate.
(HNQ, 4/8/01)
1997 Mar 3, In Brazil a hidden
camera revealed severe police brutality over three nights at the
intersection of Naval and Jose Francisco Braz streets in Sao Paulo. The
videotape showed 15 people abused by the police and one man shot dead
in a car as it pulled away by officer Octavio Lorenco Gambra, aka Rambo.
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A10)
1997 Mar 3, In Pakistan a train
derailed in eastern Punjab just outside Khaniwal and at least 136
people were killed and 450 injured.
(SFC, 3/4/97, p.A9)
1997 Mar 3, In Rwanda dozens of
bodies were found in Ruhengeri, the day after unidentified men killed
three people including a tax collector. The UN accused Rwandan troops
of killing at least 137 villagers in reprisal for the slaying of the
official.
(SFC, 5/2/97, p.A17)
1998 Mar 3, Presidential confidant
Vernon Jordan testified before the grand jury investigating the Monica
Lewinsky matter.
(AP, 3/3/99)
1998 Mar 3, It was reported that
the US had slashed aid to fight drugs in Bolivia by 75% or some $34
million. Aid in 1997 was $46 million. The allocation was partly shifted
to Columbia.
(SFC, 3/3/98, p.A9)
1998 Mar 3, Microsoft chairman
Bill Gates testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that his
company wasn't a monopoly out to crush rivals in the Internet software
market.
(AP, 3/3/99)
1998 Mar 3, The Supreme Court
ruled that local lawmakers' votes are immune to lawsuits even if they
had been based on illegal or discriminatory motives.
(AP, 3/3/99)
1998 Mar 3, Larry Doby (d.2003 at
79), the first black player in the American League (1947), was elected
to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
(AP, 3/3/99)(WSJ, 6/20/03, p.A1)
1998 Mar 3, Former CBS News
president Fred W. Friendly died in New York at age 82.
(AP, 3/3/99)
1998 Mar 3, Dr. Hans J.
Muller-Eberhard, one of the first scientists to explain the importance
of the complement system, died in Houston. He showed that front line
attack of the immune system was a complex of about 20 separate protein
molecules that together attacked cells through a series of reactions
referred to as a cascade.
(SFC, 3/8/98, p.C5)
1998 Mar 3, In Germany over
130,000 public sector workers stopped work. The 2nd walkout in 2 days
was for a 4.5% increase in pay.
(SFC, 3/4/98, p.C4)
1998 Mar 3, In India the BJP with
regional allies emerged as the largest grouping from the general
election. It was still 20 seats short of a governing majority in the
543-seat parliament.
(FT, 3/4/98, p.1)
1998 Mar 3, In Mexico Senator
Layda Sansores discovered a government spy center in Campeche. 22
similar operations throughout the country were indicated by the records
found.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A11)
1998 Mar 3, In Northern Ireland
Damien Trainor (25) and Phillip Allen (34) were shot and killed by
sectarian gunmen in the Railway Bar in Poyntzpass. Three others were
wounded.
(SFC, 3/5/98, p.A12)
1998 Mar 3, In Kosovo, Serbia, a
mass funeral of 30,000 was held for 24 ethnic Albanians killed Feb 28.
(SFC, 3/11/98, p.A8)
1998 Mar 3, In Zimbabwe a strike
over soaring taxes and food prices left 80% of the nation’s workers at
home.
(SFC, 3/4/98, p.C4)
1999 Mar 3, Monica Lewinsky, in an
ABC interview, the 20/20 TV show, timed to coincide with the
publication of her book, recounted for Barbara Walters some of the
fondest, as well as most painful, aspects of her relationship with
President Clinton.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/3/00)
1999 Mar 3, The Supreme Court
ruled that public schools had to finance one-on-one nursing care for
some disabled students throughout the school day.
(AP, 3/3/00)
1999 Mar 3, The New England
Forestry Foundation announced a conservation deal that banned
development on over 754,673 acres of prime Maine woods owned by the
Pingree family. Gov. Angus King said the $28 million agreement would
allow managed logging while preserving the wilderness character of the
forestland.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A3)(WSJ, 3/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 3, In Arizona Walter
LaGrand (37), a German citizen, was executed with cyanide gas for the
1982 murder of a bank manager. Germany later filed a complaint with the
World Court for human rights violations because neither he nor his
brother were not informed of their right to assistance from the German
consulate.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A3)(USAT, 9/17/99, p.13A)
1999 Mar 3, In Ecuador the sucre
fell 14% and the Banco del Occidente closed due to liquidity problems.
(WSJ, 3/4/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 3, In Japan the short
term interest rate fell to .02% as the central bank flooded the
interbank market with cash.
(WSJ, 3/4/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 3, In Kosovo the KLA
reverted to its earlier guerrilla tactics and killed 2 Serbians.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.D3)
1999 Mar 3, In Nigeria 8-14 people
were killed in post-election violence.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.C4)
1999 Mar 3, From South Africa it
was reported that 3.6 million people, one in eight adults, were
carrying the AIDS virus by the end of 1998. This compared with 2.7
million in 1997.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.C5)(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 3, Turkey called US raids
on Iraq that cut off oil flow to Turkey unacceptable. The US planes
were based in Turkey.
(WSJ, 3/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 3, The Ugandan army
killed 15 of the Rwanda Hutu rebels who butchered 8 foreign tourists
Mar 1. Another 100 rebels escaped into the bush in side the Republic of
the Congo.
(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A12)
2000 Mar 3, In South Carolina Bob
Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian college, said it was
lifting its ban on interracial dating. University president Bob Jones
the Third made the announcement on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A1)(AP, 3/3/01)
2000 Mar 3, Kevin Uliassi landed
in Burma on the 10th day of his attempt to circle the globe as a solo
balloonist.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A2)
2000 Mar 3, In Burundi the
authorities under int'l. pressure began dismantling 6 of nearly 60
camps holding hundreds of thousands of Hutu civilians.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.C1)
2000 Mar 3, Gen. Pinochet was
flown home to Chile after being released from Britain on medical
grounds, 16 months after he was detained in Britain on torture charges.
(WSJ, 3/3/00, p.A1)(AP, 3/3/01)
2000 Mar 3, In Madagascar an
estimated 600,000 people were affected by flooding from tropical storm
Gloria and at least 55 people were reported killed.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A12)
2000 Mar 3, In Senegal Pres. Abdou
Diouf failed to get over 50% of the ballots and a runoff was scheduled
with rival Abdoulaye Wade later in the month.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.C1)
2001 Mar 3, John Ruiz became the
first Hispanic WBA heavyweight champion by defeating Evander Holyfield
in a unanimous 12-round decision.
(AP, 3/3/02)
2001 Mar 3, A US National Guard
C-23 Sherpa plane carrying members of an engineering crew crashed in
Georgia and 21 people were killed.
SSFC, 3/4/01, p.A5)(AP, 3/3/02)
2001 Mar 3, In Argentina Pres.
Fernando De la Rua asked his entire cabinet to submit their
resignations a day after Economy Minister Jose Luis Machinea submitted
his resignation.
(SSFC, 3/4/01, p.A27)
2001 Mar 3, The foot-and-mouth
scare made its way from Britain to mainland Europe with the discovery
of blisters on the snouts of three pigs in northern Belgium, sparking
drastic measures.
(AP, 3/3/02)
2002 Mar 3, US military forces and
6 allied nations made air and ground assaults against al Qaeda and
Taliban fighters in the Afghan Shah-e-Kot mountains of eastern Paktia
province.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 3, Harlan Howard (74),
song writer, died. His hits included “Heartaches by the Number” and “I
Fall to Pieces,” made famous by Patsy Cline.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A18)
2002 Mar 3, A 7.2 earthquake was
centered in northeast Afghanistan and at least 100 people were killed.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 3, In Ahmadabad, India,
the death toll from Hindu-Muslim violence climbed to 538 as Hindu mobs
continued attacks on Muslims.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 3, Israel used jets and
helicopters to strike Palestinian targets. 4 Palestinians were killed.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 3, In Kenya the Taliban
gang (Kikuyu) killed 2 members of the Mungiki gang (Luo). The violence
in east Nairobi left at least 20 people dead.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 3, Syria’s Pres. Assad
officially visited Lebanon for the 1st time in 27 years and met with
Lebanon’s Pres. Emile Lahoud.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A5)
2002 Mar 3, Switzerland voted in a
referendum to join the UN, the 190th member, abandoning almost 200
years of formal neutrality.
(SFC, 3/4/02, p.A2)(Econ, 2/14/04, Survey p.4)(AP,
3/3/07)
2002 Mar 3, In Vietnam a 3-day
US-Vietnamese conference on Agent Orange began. High dioxin levels were
found in people 30 years after spraying ended.
(SSFC, 3/3/02, p.A11)
2003 Mar 3, President Bush offered
a rough blueprint for adding drug benefits to Medicare.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2003 Mar 3, Malcolm Kilduff (75),
the White House spokesman who announced to a shocked world the death of
President Kennedy, died in Beattyville, Ky.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2003 Mar 3, Israeli troops
raided a Gaza refugee camp and arrested Hamas co-founder Mohammed Taha.
He founded Hamas in 1987, along with the group's spiritual leader,
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, and three other senior clerics. Israel released him
14 months later. 8 Palestinians, among them a pregnant woman, were
killed in clashes in the camp.
(AP, 3/3/03)(AP, 3/3/08)
2003 Mar 3, In Kenya US
diplomats opened a new embassy in Nairobi, replacing the one destroyed
4 ½ years ago when terrorists launched attacks.
(AP, 3/4/03)
2003 Mar 3, A Special Court for
Sierra Leone indicted Liberian Pres. Charles Taylor on charges
including murder, rape, sexual slavery, conscripting child soldiers and
terrorizing civilians for his support of rebels during Sierra Leone
civil war. The Indictment was unsealed on June 4, 2003, during Taylor's
first overseas trip since his indictment.
(AP, 7/14/09)
2003 Mar 3, Lawmakers from
Serbia and Montenegro inaugurated their new parliament, formally
replacing Yugoslavia with the new state.
(AP, 3/3/03)
2003 Mar 3, In Tanzania a
new U.S. Embassy opened in Dar Es Salaam, replacing the one destroyed 4
½ years ago when terrorists launched attacks.
(AP, 3/4/03)
2003 Mar 3, In
northern Uganda a military firing squad executed 3 soldiers who had
been convicted of murdering civilians.
(AP, 3/4/03)
2004 Mar 3, In Portland, Ore.,
hundreds of gay couples applied for marriage licenses following an
overnight policy change by county commissioners.
(SFC, 3/04/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 3, The Walt Disney
Company's board voted to strip Michael Eisner of his chairman's post
while retaining him as CEO.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2004 Mar 3, Royal Dutch/Shell
announced the resignations of CEO Sir Philip Watts and Walter van de
Vijver, head of exploration and production.
(WSJ, 4/20/04, p.A12)
2004 Mar 3, Harvard reported that
it used private funds to create 17 new stem-cell lines from discarded
fertility clinic embryos.
(WSJ, 3/4/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 3, Ethiopia was reported
to have begun relocating hundreds of thousands of people from
drought-prone areas to fertile lands to alleviate food shortages.
Relocation began in May 2003 and many of the resettled people continued
to face hunger, diarrhea and malaria.
(AP, 3/3/04)(SFC, 7/19/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 3, French authorities
said a previously unknown terror group is threatening to blow up French
railway tracks unless it is paid millions of dollars.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2004 Mar 3, Guatemala's Congress
fired Oscar Dubon, the government's chief accountant, after he fled the
country amid allegations of political corruption.
(AP, 3/4/04)
2004 Mar 3, Haitian looters found
rotting stacks of cash, estimated at $350,000, stashed in a tunnel
beneath former Pres. Aristide's mansion.
(WSJ, 3/4/04, p.A14)
2004 Mar 3, In Petit Goave, Haiti,
an armed posse tracked down Ti Roro. They beat him with sticks, took
him to the morgue to identify his alleged victims, ringed him with
gasoline-soaked tires and burned him alive. As he was burning, he
admitted to all of the 15 people he killed in the last year.
(AP, 3/5/04)
2004 Mar 3, In India's
Jammu-Kashmir state a suspected militant with explosives on his body
grabbed a guard's rifle and opened fire in a jail courtyard, setting
off a shootout that killed six people as well as himself.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2004 Mar 3, Israeli helicopters
fired two missiles at a car carrying Hamas militants on a road through
the Gaza Strip, killing three people.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2004 Mar 3, Malaysia's new PM
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi called a snap national election that will pit the
long-ruling secular coalition government against a fundamentalist
Islamic opposition.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2004 Mar 3, In eastern Nepal
leftist rebels attacked a telecommunications tower in mountains,
killing at least 29 soldiers and leaving 10 others missing.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2004 Mar 3, Pakistani authorities
detained at least 15 tribal leaders in a remote border region near
Afghanistan for failing to turn over suspected al-Qaeda fugitives.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2004 Mar 3, In Yemen security
forces arrested Abdul Raouf Naseeb, a leading al-Qaeda member, along
with other militants in the southern mountains.
(AP, 3/4/04)
2005 Mar 3, President Bush visited
CIA headquarters, where he promised agency employees they would retain
an “incredibly vital” role in safeguarding the nation’s security
despite the creation of a new post of national director of intelligence.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2005 Mar 3, Millionaire adventurer
Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone
without stopping or refueling, touching down in central Kansas after a
67-hour, 23-thousand-mile journey.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2005 Mar 3, Traders pushed the
wholesale price of gasoline to a record high.
(SFC, 3/4/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 3, AOL launched a new
beta version of its web browser Netscape 8.0.
(WSJ, 3/3/05, p.B1)
2005 Mar 3, A UN report on AIDS in
Africa said 80 million may be dead by 2025 with over 10% of the
population infected.
(WSJ, 3/4/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 3, An Arab League meeting
opened in Cairo. An Arab diplomat said Syria has told Arab countries it
needs to keep 3,000 troops and early-warning stations inside Lebanon to
maintain its security despite international pressure for a full
withdrawal. Saudi Arabia told Syria to withdraw its troops.
(AP, 3/3/05)(SFC, 3/4/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 3, In western Canada 4
Mounties were killed while they were investigating an illegal marijuana
farm. Suspect James Roszko (46) killed himself after shooting the
officers.
(AP, 3/4/05)
2005 Mar 3, The seven Central
American nations (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua and Panama) agreed to create a rapid-response force to combat
drug trafficking, terrorism and other regional threats.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 3, In France a trial got
under way in which 66 people were accused of participating in a
pedophilia ring.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 3, In Indonesia the
alleged leader of a militant Islamic group was sentenced to 2 1/2 years
in prison for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that
killed 202 people but was cleared of more serious charges.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 3, In Iraq car bombs
killed six policemen and wounded 15 in new attacks on security services
as political factions wrangled over putting together a government.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 3, Libyan leader Moamer
Kadhafi issued a call for economic liberalization in the North African
state.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 3, In Nigeria thousands
of rioters wielding sticks and broken bottles burned down a police
station in Makurdi, protesting the police killing of a bus driver who
apparently refused to pay a bribe equivalent to 14 cents.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 3, Pakistani tribal
militants, demanding greater political and economic rights, blew up a
railway line to Iran in the third attack on the track in recent weeks.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2005 Mar 3, Men in eastern and
southern Saudi Arabia turned out in the thousands to vote in municipal
elections. They expect to provide their first say in decision-making in
this absolute monarchy.
(AP, 3/3/05)
2006 Mar 3, President Bush arrived
in Pakistan to meet with top officials, including President Pervez
Musharraf, to discuss the war on terror. Thousands rallied across
Pakistan against cartoons of Prophet Muhammad and a planned visit by
President Bush as radical Islamic groups called a strike that shut
shops and businesses in several major cities.
(AP, 3/3/06)(AP, 3/3/07)
2006 Mar 3, The Pentagon released
the names and home countries of many detainees who have been held at
the isolated military prison for up to four years. A Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit filed by The Associated Press forced the
Department of Defense afternoon to turn over some 5,000 pages of
transcripts from closed-door hearings on the detainees.
(AP, 3/4/06)
2006 Mar 3, US army Gen. George
Casey said the US military would continue paying Iraqi newspapers to
publish stories favorable to the US after an inquiry found no fault
with the practice. The practice would be illegal in the US.
(SFC, 3/4/06, p.A3)
2006 Mar 3, Former US Congressman
Randy "Duke" Cunningham (64), who pleaded guilty last year to taking
$2.4 million in bribes, was sentenced by a federal judge in San Diego,
Ca., to eight years and four months in prison.
(Reuters, 3/4/06)
2006 Mar 3, Research In Motion,
the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, agreed to
pay $612.5 million to NTP, a small Virginia intellectual properties
firm, to settle all claims in a 4-year patent dispute.
(SFC, 3/4/06, p.C1)(WSJ, 3/4/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 3, Officials in southern
California said archaeologists, excavating a housing development site,
had found a prehistoric milling area at the base of the Angeles
National Forest estimated to be 8,000 years old. Workers removed and
catalogued about 100 tools and implements used by the Gabrielino-Tongva
tribe. Azusa Land Partners is developing 1,250 homes on the 520-acre
site.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, In Austria talks
between EU negotiators and Iran over its nuclear ambitions broke up
without any agreement, paving the way for potential UN Security Council
action against Tehran as early as next week.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, In Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, 10 assault rifles and a pistol were stolen from a barracks by
seven gunmen wearing army-issued camouflage gear and ninja masks. The
gunmen overpowered three guards, stole the weapons from a small depot
and sped away in at least two cars waiting outside the building.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 3, Detectives
investigating Britain's largest robbery discovered several million
pounds in cash at a warehouse in southeast London.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, A US trade envoy said
China is failing to do enough to prevent growing product piracy and
could be forced to answer formal complaints over it in the World Trade
Organization if it doesn't take more aggressive action.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, In Ecuador a judge
released former President Lucio Gutierrez from prison, ruling he broke
no law by accusing his successor of conspiring to oust him from power.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, Egypt arrested Rashad
Bayyumi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, along with 7 members of Egypt's
main opposition group. Bayyumi sits on the Brotherhood's 13-member
Guidance Bureau. 3 more members were arrested the next day.
(AFP, 3/4/06)
2006 Mar 3, Scientists reported
the discovery of a 19-mile wide crater in Egypt’s Sahara desert. The
newfound crater, named Kebira, was likely carved by a space rock that
was itself roughly 0.75 miles wide in an event that would have been
quite a shock, destroying everything for hundreds of miles. It was
discovered in satellite images by Boston University researchers Farouk
El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim.
(http://tinyurl.com/rukmd)
2006 Mar 3, The UN Security
Council called on Eritrea to lift a ban on UN helicopter flights in its
airspace, saying it imposes an "unacceptable restriction" that
endangers the safety of United Nations staff in the country.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, Anger against U.S.
President George W. Bush swept through parts of India as protesters
burned his effigy and carried posters of Osama bin Laden, and rioting
demonstrators clashed with Hindus in a northern city, leaving at least
one dead.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, Iran offered to
suspend full-scale uranium enrichment for up to two years during
discussion in Moscow. The proposal reflected Tehran's attempts to
escape UN Security Council action over the activity, which can be used
to make nuclear arms.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 3, Iraqi security forces
in bulletproof vests took to the streets in the bloodied capital to
enforce a daytime ban on private vehicles in an effort to blunt a surge
of sectarian violence that has pushed Iraq to the edge of civil war.
Insurgents attacks near Baghdad killed 19 people.
(AP, 3/3/06)(WSJ, 3/4/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 3, It was reported that
Save the Children USA, a Connecticut-based humanitarian organization,
will withdraw from Iraq due to deteriorating security there.
(SFC, 3/3/06, p.A3)
2006 Mar 3, An Israeli couple set
off a series of firecrackers in the Basilica of the Annunciation in
Nazareth. The church was built on the site where Christians believe the
Angel Gabriel appeared before the Virgin Mary and foretold the birth of
Jesus.
(AP, 3/4/06)(WSJ, 3/4/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 3, Israeli troops shot
and killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded a second person during an
early morning raid in the West Bank city of Nablus.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3-2006 Mar 5, Wooden
canoes, carrying West Africans seeking a better life in Europe,
foundered off the coast of Mauritania over 3 days leaving at least 45
people dead.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A3)(Reuters, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 3, Khaled Mashaal, Hamas'
political leader, rejected any discussion about the militant group's
refusal to recognize Israel, dealing a setback to Moscow's efforts to
persuade it to soften its stance.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, In the Philippines
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo lifted a week-old state of emergency,
justifying the controversial decree by claiming a coup plot had been "a
clear and present danger." Isabela City Mayor Luis Biel II was shot and
killed outside his office. Bodyguards killed the gunman.
(AP, 3/3/06)(http://tinyurl.com/ytgzu6)
2006 Mar 3, South Korea rejected
North Korea's demand that the countries redraw their western sea
border, ending two days of high-level military talks without agreement.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, An EU executive said
Sweden's first case of mad cow disease has been confirmed by the
European Union's central laboratory.
(AP, 3/3/06)
2006 Mar 3, Zimbabwe’s minister of
mines announced that 51% of all foreign mining shareholdings would have
to be transferred to the government.
(Econ, 3/18/06, p.64)
2007 Mar 3, In Oklahoma Cherokee
Nation members voted to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated
2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves.
(AP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 3, Warren Alpert
(b.1920), philanthropist, died in NYC. In 1950 he formed Warren
Equities Inc., which became one of the largest independent gasoline and
convenience store marketers and one of the leading independent
wholesale petroleum marketers in the Northeast. In 1986 Alpert
founded the Warren Alpert Foundation, a philanthropic effort devoted to
supporting medical research and health care. On Jan 29 it was announced
that he had donated $100 million to Rhode Island’s Brown Medical school.
(WSJ, 3/5/07, p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/25gd5v)
2007 Mar 3, A bomb blast in
western Afghanistan killed two Afghan civilians and wounded 17 others.
In southern Afghanistan 2 British soldiers were killed during a NATO
combat operation.
(AP, 3/3/07)(AFP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 3, In Algeria 4 workers
from Russia and Ukraine and three Algerians were killed in a bomb
attack on a bus near the town of Ain Defla, south of the capital
Algiers.
(AFP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 3, In Brazil gunmen
killed five people in Rio de Janeiro's poor outskirts in an attack
blamed on rival drug gangs.
(AP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 3, Britain sent a crisis
team to Ethiopia in an effort to obtain the release of five British
embassy workers or their relatives who were kidnapped along with a
group of French while on a trip to remote northeastern Ethiopia. An
Ethiopian administrator accused Eritrean forces of kidnapping a group
of five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians in a remote part of Ethiopia, and
taking them to a military camp near the Eritrean border. Several
Ethiopians who were kidnapped along with five Britons touring the
African country's remote northeast were found.
(AP, 3/3/07)(Reuters, 3/3/07)(AP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 3, CAR rebel and
government military sources said rebels in the Central African Republic
have attacked the northeastern town of Birao, which they had occupied
for a month in November.
(AFP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, In Colombia 4 police
officers and a civilian were killed as officers moved a powerful bomb
allegedly planted by leftist rebels as part of an attempt to kill a
city mayor.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, In eastern Indonesian
a bomb packed with nails exploded at a port in the city of Ambon,
wounding 12 people. Landslides triggered by days of heavy rain killed
at least 40 people in eastern Indonesia, and nearly 30 more were
believed to be buried under the mud.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, Gunmen stormed the
home of a Sunni family threatened with death for meeting with local
Shiites, separating out the women and children and executing six men.
American warplanes bombed an area near Taji, on Baghdad's northern
outskirts, killing "key terrorists" who were using anti-aircraft
artillery to fire at military helicopters. In a separate raid in the
Taji area, nine suspected insurgents were captured, including two
believed to be responsible for recruiting and helping foreign militants
join the insurgency in Baghdad. At least 7 other people wee killed in
shootings and roadside bombs.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, In central Japan an
annual hunt for as many as 20,000 dolphins drew to a close. Herded
since October the youngest and most attractive dolphins were put up for
sale to theme parks for as much as $100,000.
(SFC, 3/3/07, p.B6)
2007 Mar 3, In Kuwait a criminal
court acquitted two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners of joining al-Qaida
or the Taliban.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, In southern Mexico
gunmen killed two members of Mexico's former ruling party in the
mountain city of Tlapa in Guerrero state.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, In northern Morocco a
bus skidded off a treacherous mountain road, killing nine people and
injuring 45 others.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, Officials said
Mozambican marines rescued more than 1,700 people, including 900
children, from flooding in central Mozambique.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, Pakistan successfully
test-fired a short-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, Pope Benedict named
Kazimierz Nycz, a bishop with a spotless record, as archbishop of
Warsaw to replace a prelate who resigned in disgrace after admitting he
spied for the communist police.
(Reuters, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, Russian police
violently broke up an unauthorized opposition rally in St. Petersburg,
clubbing dozens of activists before dragging them into waiting buses.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 3, Saudi Arabia's king
personally welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon his
arrival, a rapprochement many hope will help calm sectarian tensions
threatening the Middle East. The leaders pledged to fight the spread of
sectarian strife in the Middle East, which they said was the biggest
danger facing the region.
(AP, 3/3/07)(AP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 3, A Yemen official said
a hundred jailed Muslim extremists, including some who allegedly fought
for al-Qaida in Iraq, had been released. Some had completed serving
their sentences, while some of the others were acquitted for lack of
evidence.
(AP, 3/4/07)
2008 Mar 3, The US and EU filed a
WTO case against China demanding that it loosen restraints on foreign
companies vying for a greater slice of the country's lucrative market
for financial information.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, In West Palm Beach,
Florida, Alburn Edward Blake (60) opened fire inside a Wendy’s
restaurant killing a paramedic and wounding 5 others before killing
himself.
(SFC, 3/4/08, p.A4)
2008 Mar 3, In Memphis, Tennessee,
police found 6 bodies, including 2 men, 2 women and 2 boys, and 3
seriously wounded children, aged 1-12, in the Binghampton neighborhood.
Jessie L. Dotson (33), the brother of one of the dead men and a
convicted killer recently released from prison, was arrested March 7.
(SFC, 3/5/08, p.A5)(AP, 3/9/08)
2008 Mar 3, In Washington state 3
new expensive homes went up in flames in the Seattle suburb of
Woodinville. A spray painted sign was marked ELF, the initials of the
Earth Liberation Front. 2 other homes had minor fire or smoke damage.
(SFC, 3/4/08, p.A3)
2008 Mar 3, In eastern Afghanistan
a suicide car bomber attacked a government building protected by NATO
and Afghan troops. 2 NATO troops and two civilians died in the blast.
(AP, 3/3/08)(AP, 3/4/08)
2008 Mar 3, Colin Norris (32),
convicted of killing four elderly patients in northern England with
insulin overdoses, was sentenced to life in prison. must serve at least
30 years before being eligible for parole. Norris was arrested in
December 2002 but not charged until 2005.
(AP, 3/4/08)
2008 Mar 3, The film "Away from
Her" was the big winner at Canada's Genie Awards, winning seven
statuettes, including best picture, best actor, best actress and best
director for first-time filmmaker Sarah Polley.
(Reuters, 3/4/08)
2008 Mar 3, Ecuador's president
said that his government was in "very advanced" talks with Colombian
rebels to free 12 hostages, including former presidential candidate
Ingrid Betancourt and three US contractors, but was thwarted by
Colombia’s military raid. Venezuela and Ecuador expelled Colombia’s
diplomats and cracked down on trade across the border.
(AP, 3/4/08)
2008 Mar 3, Egyptian security
forces detained at least 36 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's
strongest opposition group, including some likely candidates in local
elections next month. The men were accused of belonging to a banned
group, possessing anti-government literature and organizing
unauthorized meetings. Egypt has arrested more than 230 members of the
Islamist group since mid-February, taking the total number in detention
to well over 550.
(Reuters, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, Parvin Ardalan (36),
an Iranian women's rights activist, was to receive the 2007 Olof Palme
award in Stockholm, Sweden, but was told just before her flight that
she was not allowed to leave the country.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, The UN Security
Council imposed another round of sanctions on Iran for refusing to
suspend uranium enrichment. Iran defiantly vowed to continue its
nuclear program, which it insists is aimed only at generating power.
(AP, 3/4/08)
2008 Mar 3, In Iraq Pres. Talabani
and Iran’s Pres. Ahmadinejad signed 7 memorandums of understanding on
issues including industrial development, trade and customs. At least 23
people were killed and dozens were wounded when two suicide car bombs
exploded in different parts of Baghdad. 3 police officers were killed
by a parked car bomb in the town of Shikaat, north of Baghdad.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, Israeli ground troops
pulled out of northern Gaza before daybreak, following the first
extended sweep in an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads that
has left more than 100 dead and led the Palestinian president to call
off peace talks.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, In western Kenya
dozens of people with assault rifles and machetes stormed a village,
killing at least 13 people, including six children. Some were burned
alive in their homes. National Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said the
attack in Embakasi village was over land, not the country's disputed
Dec. 27 presidential election.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, In Myanmar 5 people
were killed in execution-style shootings in the wealthy Yangon
neighborhood where democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is under house
arrest.
(AFP, 3/4/08)
2008 Mar 3, A UN helicopter
crashed while flying in bad weather in Nepal's mountainous east,
killing at least 10 people.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, A Red Cross official
said more than 900 people have been stricken with typhoid in a city
just south of the Philippine capital Manila. The disease was spread out
in 18 villages.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, Russia quelled
protests in Moscow following the elections and reduced natural gas
supplies to Ukraine over $600 million in alleged nonpayments for past
deliveries.
(WSJ, 3/4/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 3, Saudi police arrested
28 suspected militants accused of trying to rebuild al-Qaida’s terror
network in the kingdom.
(WSJ, 3/4/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 3, The US launched an
airstrike on a Somali town held by Islamic extremists to go after a
group of terrorist suspects. Three missiles hit Dobley, a town four
miles from the Kenyan border, destroying a home and seriously injured
eight people.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, In Sri Lanka 14 rebels
were killed in ongoing clashes with government forces.
(AFP, 3/4/08)
2008 Mar 3, The Sri Lankan navy
said it rescued 71 Burmese Bangladeshi citizens aboard a vessel that
had drifted for 12 days in the Indian Ocean. 20 others had died from
lack of food and water.
(SFC, 3/4/08, p.A3)
2008 Mar 3, The UN in Sudan
accused a rebel group of blocking access to a mountainous area in
Darfur where 20,000 people are trapped after fighting between
government and rebels.
(Reuters, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 3, Tens of thousands of
Syrians filled the central square of the capital to protest an Israeli
offensive in the Gaza Strip that has left scores of Palestinians dead.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2009 Mar 3, US President Barack
Obama and British PM Gordon Brown held their first White House talks.
They discussed the coordination of worldwide actions to stimulate
economies.
(AFP, 3/3/09)(SFC, 3/4/09, p.A5)
2009 Mar 3, The IMF said 22 of the
world’s poorest nations may need a total of $25 billion in additional
funding this year.
(WSJ, 3/4/09, p.A10)
2009 Mar 3, In southern
Afghanistan 3 Canadian soldiers were killed and two wounded in a bomb
blast in Arghandab, northwest of Kandahar.
(AFP, 3/4/09)
2009 Mar 3, Bangladeshi police
arrested Syed Tauhidul Alam, the suspected ringleader of a deadly
border guard mutiny that killed 74 people, during a raid in a slum in
Dhaka. 4 other border guards were also arrested.
(AP, 3/3/09)(SFC, 3/4/09, p.A4)(Econ, 3/7/09, p.48)
2009 Mar 3, Canadian banks cut
their prime lending rates after the Bank of Canada, the country's
central bank, cut its key interest rate by a half-point to a record low
of 0.5 percent.
(Reuters, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 3, In southern Ethiopia a
cattle-herding tribe crowned Guyyoo Gobbaa (36) as their new king in a
secret ceremony considered so sacred that the Borena people believe it
has the power to kill unauthorized observers.
(AP, 3/4/09)
2009 Mar 3, In Germany the
building that houses the Cologne city archives collapsed. 3 people were
feared missing in other damaged buildings nearby.
(AP, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 3, Guatemala’s President
Alvaro Colom announced that a new government commission will organize
and declassify military documents that could shed light on torture,
disappearances and other atrocities during Guatemala's 36-year civil
war. Inmates at a Guatemalan juvenile prison killed Winter Vidaurre,
one of their teachers, during a riot. They removed his heart before
police regained control of the prison using tear gas. The prisoners had
taken three of their teachers hostage to protest the transfer of
several of their fellow inmates to another detention center.
(AP, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 3, Lawmakers in
Guinea-Bissau voted to uphold the constitution by which parliament
speaker Raimundo Pereira succeeds as interim president, following the
assassination of the head of state. Pereira took the oath of office.
(AFP, 3/3/09)(SFC, 3/4/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 3, An official said 4
Indonesians have died of bird flu over the last 2 months, bringing the
death toll in the country over the past several years to 119.
(AP, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 3, In Iraq the body of
Munther Mohammed Shaheen, the son of a newspaper editor, was found in
Kirkuk. One American soldier was killed in Mosul as insurgents attacked
an US-Iraqi base there.
(AP, 3/4/09)(SFC, 3/4/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 3, In Kyrgyzstan Syrgak
Abdyldayev, a journalist with the Reporter-Bishkek weekly, was stabbed
repeatedly by four assailants after leaving his office. Opposition
parties described the attack as an attempt to stamp out freedom of
expression.
(AP, 3/4/09)
2009 Mar 3, In Mexico hundreds of
heavily armed soldiers fanned out across Ciudad Juarez, trying to
prevent a collapse in law and order just south of the US border.
Joggers found the decapitated bodies of 3 men near a bullfighting ring
in the border city of Tijuana. The heads were found nearby with a
message calling the men "snitches." One of the dead included Jorge
Norman Harrison (38), an American who had been convicted for drug
trafficking in the US. A fourth body, whose head was wrapped in masking
tape, was found in a creek.
(Reuters, 3/3/09)(AP, 3/3/09)(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 3, In Pakistan at least a
dozen men ambushed Sri Lanka's cricket team with rifles, grenades and
rocket launchers as they drove to the stadium ahead of a match in
Lahore, killing 6 policemen and a driver. The attackers melted away
into the city. None were killed or captured.
(AP, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 3, Igor Panarin, dean at
the Russian Foreign Ministry's school for future diplomats and a
regular on Russia's state-guided TV channels, told dozens of students,
professors and diplomats that: "There is a high probability that the
collapse of the US will occur by 2010." He also said the US will break
up into six autonomous regions and Alaska will revert to Russian
control.
(AP, 3/4/09)
2009 Mar 3, In Saudi Arabia
Khamisa Sawadi, a 75-year-old widow, was sentenced to 40 lashes and
four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not close
relatives. The case drew new criticism for the kingdom's
ultraconservative religious police and judiciary.
(AP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 3, Sudanese President
Omar al-Beshir inaugurated a massive hydro-electric project that has
displaced tens of thousands and is the largest to be built along the
Nile in 40 years.
(AP, 3/3/09)
2009 Mar 3, In Zimbabwe’s
parliament former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in. A
judge ordered the release on bail of senior opposition lawmaker Roy
Bennett after nearly three weeks in prison on weapons charges.
(AP, 3/3/09)
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