I really like my birthday date. I think it is really cool. When I am filling out forms, I don’t have to worry about whether or not the month or the day goes first – they are both 03/03. Easy!!! Here are some things that have happened on my birthday over time. Some are sad, some are good, some are funny, and some are random.
March 3, 1995 President Howard W. Hunter Dies
March 3, 1991 Four Los Angeles Police severely beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video
March 3, 1991 Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the U.S.S.R.
March 3, 1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
March 3, 1981 Lesli Joe Morris is born to Billy Joe and Shirley Ann Morris
March 3, 1978 Charles Chaplin’s remains are stolen in Switzerland
March 3, 1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
March 3, 1968 Greece, Portugal and Spain’s embassies bombed in the Hague
March 3, 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 3, 1965 Temptations’ “My Girl” reaches #1
March 3, 1965 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 3, 1965 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
March 3, 1963 Senegal adopts constitution
March 3, 1955 Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
March 3, 1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
March 3, 1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated
March 3, 1933 New York City premiere of “King Kong”
March 3, 1931 “Star Spangled Banner” officially becomes U.S. national anthem
March 3, 1924 German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
March 3, 1917 Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar
March 3, 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)
March 3, 1915 Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
March 3, 1913 Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington D.C.
March 3, 1905 U.S. Forest Service forms
March 3, 1899 Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
March 3, 1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
March 3, 1879 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
March 3, 1875 Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years
March 3, 1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races
March 3, 1863 Idaho Territory forms
March 3, 1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
March 3, 1855 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
March 3, 1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
March 3, 1842 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
March 3, 1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
