March 3: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
2. 1820 - The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
3. 1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
4. 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.
5. 1913 - Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
6. 1923 - TIME magazine is published for the first time.
7. 1931 - The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
8. 1939 - In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
9. 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
10. 2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
11. Famous Birthdays: George Pullman (American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company), John Murray (Scottish oceanographer), Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish-American engineer, invented the Telephone), Ragnar Frisch (Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate), Arthur Kornberg (American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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