History of 3 March
- 1991 – 25 people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashed while on approach to the Colorado Springs airport.
- 1991 – Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers. The scene was captured on amateur video. (California)
- 1994 – The Mexican government reached a peace agreement with the Chiapas rebels.
- 1995 – A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia ended. Several gunmen were killed by U.S. Marines in Mogadishu while overseeing the pull out of peacekeepers.
- 1999 – In Egypt, 19 people were killed when a bus plunged into a Nile canal.
- 2019 – An unmanned demonstration flight of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the Internation Space Station.
celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – David Bailey, American basketball player
- 1981 – Julius Malema, South African politician
- 1981 – Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer
- 1982 – Jessica Biel, American actress, singer, and producer
- 1982 – Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Tolu Ogunlesi, Nigerian journalist, writer
- 1982 – Brent Tate, Australian rugby league player
- 1983 – Ashley Hansen, Australian footballer
- 1983 – Sarah Poewe, South African swimmer
- 1984 – Valerio Bernabò, Italian rugby player
- 1984 – Santonio Holmes, American football player
- 1984 – Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Jed Collins, American football player
- 1986 – Stacie Orrico, American singer-songwriter
- 1986 – Mehmet Topal, Turkish footballer
- 1987 – Jesús Padilla, Mexican footballer
- 1987 – Shraddha Kapoor, Indian actress, singer, and designer
- 1988 – Teodora Mirčić, a Serbian tennis player
- 1988 – Michael Morrison, English footballer
- 1988 – Jan-Arie van der Heijden, Dutch footballer
- 1988 – Max Waller, English cricketer
- 1989 – Erwin Mulder, Dutch footballer
- 1990 – Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player
- 1991 – Anri Sakaguchi, Japanese actress
- 1991 – Cho-Rong, South Korean singer
- 1993 – Gabriela Cé, a Brazilian tennis player
- 1993 – James Roberts, Australian rugby league player
- 1994 – Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer, and actress
- 1997 – Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer
- 1998 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player