TODAY HISTORY LESSON: MARCH 3
1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1791 1st Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1803 The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, begins.
1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute
1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1845 Florida becomes the 27th U.S. state.
1845 The U.S. Congress passed legislation overriding a U.S. President’s veto. It was the first time the Congress had achieved this.
1849 Territory of Minnesota is organized
1855 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1857 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China
1861 Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs and granting them the full rights of free citizens
1863 Idaho Territory forms
1863 President Abraham Lincoln signs the conscription act compelling U.S. citizens to report for duty in the Civil War or pay $300.00.
1910 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 U.S. Congress for the creation of the Rockefeller Foundation.
1917 1st major strike of the Russian “February Revolution” starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd
1921 Toronto’s Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
1924 The last remnant of the Ottoman empire in Turkey is abolished. The end of the Islamic caliphate marked the demise of the 600-year old empire and gave way to the formation of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
1931 President Herbert Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner,” the national anthem.
1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1938 The world’s fastest steam locomotive is built. The Mallard could reach a speed of over 100 miles per hour
1952 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds New York’s Feinberg Law banning Communist teachers in the United States.
1974 All 345 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet die as it plunges to the ground near Paris, France
1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
1985 The U.K. miners’ strike ends. The year-long dispute was the country’s longest-running industrial dispute and a defining issue of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government.
1985 Women Against Pornography awarded its ‘Pig Award’ to Huggies Diapers. The activists claimed that the TV ads for diapers had “crossed the line between eye-catching and porn.
1991 Footage of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King causes a global outcry
1992 President Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
1999 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton.
2000 Former dictator Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile after being detained in Britain on torture charges.
2003 New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania, to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.
2019 An unmanned demonstration flight of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the Internation Space Station.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
