1900<\/strong> – Striking miners in Germany returned to work.<\/p>\n 1903<\/strong> – In St. Louis,\u00a0MO, Barney Gilmore was arrested for spitting.<\/p>\n 1903<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0imposed a $2 head tax on immigrants.<\/p>\n 1904<\/strong> – Wilhelm II of Germany made the first recording of a political document with Thomas Edison’s cylinder.<\/p>\n 1905<\/strong> – The Russian Czar agreed to create an elected assembly.<\/p>\n 1906<\/strong> – A Frenchman tried the first flight in an airplane with tires.<\/p>\n 1908<\/strong> – The U.S. government declared open war on U.S. anarchists.<\/p>\n 1909<\/strong> – Aviators Herring, Curtiss, and Bishop announced that airplanes would be made commercially in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announced his withdrawal from business to administer his father’s fortune for an “uplift in humanity”. He also appealed to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress for the creation of the Rockefeller Foundation.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – In New York, Robert Forest founded the National Housing Association to fight deteriorating urban living conditions.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – Nicaraguan rebels admitted defeat in open war and resorted to guerrilla tactics in the hope of\u00a0U.S.\u00a0intervention.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – The motion picture “Birth of a Nation” debuted in New York City.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – The Treaty of Brest Litovsky was signed by Germany, Austria, and Russia. The treaty ended Russia’s participation in World War I.<\/p>\n 1923<\/strong> – The first issue of\u00a0Time<\/i>\u00a0magazine\u00a0was published.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – “Flying High” opened at the Apollo Theatre in New York City.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong> – The “Star Spangled Banner,” written by Francis Scott Key, was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was originally a poem known as “Defense of Fort McHenry.”<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – A world record for the indoor mile run was set by Glenn Cunningham. He ran the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – In Bombay, Gandhi began a fast to protest the state’s autocratic rule.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Moscow denounced the Axis rule in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the first time on the Mutual Broadcasting System.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – During World War II, Finland declared war on the Axis.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – “Whispering Streets” debuted on ABC Radio.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court upheld New York’s Feinberg Law that banned Communist teachers in the\u00a0U.S.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Morocco gained its independence.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – The San Francisco Giants had their new stadium officially named Candlestick Park.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> –\u00a0Apollo 9<\/i>\u00a0was launched by NASA to test a lunar module.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – Sirhan Sirhan testified in a Los Angeles court that he killed Robert Kennedy.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft was launched.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Japan disclosed its first defense plan since World War II.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – About 350 people died when a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed just after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – The remains of Charles Chaplin were stolen from his grave in Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. The body was recovered 11 weeks later near Lake Geneva.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – The submarine\u00a0Nautilus<\/i>\u00a0was decommissioned. The vessels final voyage had ended on May 26, 1979.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Women Against Pornography awarded its \u2018Pig Award\u2019 to Huggies Diapers. The activists claimed that the TV ads for diapers had “crossed the line between eye-catching and porn.”<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The TV show “Moonlighting” premiered.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a package of $30 million in non-lethal aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – 25 people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashed while on approach to the Colorado Springs airport.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers. The scene was captured on amateur video. (California)<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The Mexican government reached a peace agreement with the Chiapas rebels.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia ended. Several gunmen were killed by\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines in Mogadishu while overseeing the pull out of peacekeepers.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In Egypt, 19 people were killed when a bus plunged into a Nile canal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History of 3 March – 1900 – Striking miners in Germany returned to work. 1903 – In St. Louis,\u00a0MO, Barney Gilmore was arrested for spitting. 1903 – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0imposed a $2 head tax on immigrants. 1904 – Wilhelm II of Germany made the first recording of a political document with Thomas Edison’s cylinder. 1905 – The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[656,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-3797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-3-march","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-Zf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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