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March 3 is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
• 1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
• 1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
• 1776 – The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
• 1803 – Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
• 1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
• 1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
• 1845  – For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
• 1849 – The United States Department of the Interior is established.
• 1849  – The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
• 1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
• 1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
• 1865 – The U.S. Congress authorizes the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
• 1865  – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
• 1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
• 1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique in Paris.
• 1875  – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
• 1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5).
• 1878 – Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1879 – The United States Geological Survey is created.
• 1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
• 1891 – The penalty kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the following season.
• 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.
• 1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
• 1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
• 1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
• 1918 – Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
• 1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
• 1924 – The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
• 1924  – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
• 1931 – The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
• 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• 1939 – In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
• 1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
• 1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
• 1943 – World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
• 1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
• 1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops take Manila in the Philippines.
• 1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11.
• 1958 – Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
• 1961 – Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
• 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
• 1971 – Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini.
• 1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
• 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
• 1976 – 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
• 1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
• 1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
• 1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
• 1991  – In two concurring referendums: 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, in Estonia – 83%.
• 1991  – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
• 1992 – The nation of Bosnia is established.
• 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
• 2002 – Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
• 2004 – Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agree to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that forms InBev, the world's largest brewer.
• 2005 – Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
• 2005  – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
• 2009 – The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by gunmen while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.
• 2009  – The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.

Births

• 1455 – King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
• 1520 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575)
• 1583 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648)
• 1589 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (d. 1676)
• 1606 – Edmund Waller, British poet (d. 1687)
• 1652 – Thomas Otway, British dramatist (d. 1685)
• 1678 – Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)
• 1756 – William Godwin, English journalist, political philosopher and novelist (d. 1836)
• 1778 – Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (d. 1841)
• 1793 – William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
• 1800 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
• 1805 – Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
• 1816 – William James Blacklock, British landscape painter (d. 1858)
• 1831 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
• 1839 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904)
• 1845 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)
• 1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian inventor (d. 1922)
• 1848 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)
• 1851 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
• 1860 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925)
• 1863 – Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947)
• 1866 – Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914)
• 1868 – Émile Chartier, French philosopher, journalist and pacifist (d. 1951)
• 1869 – Henry Joseph Wood, English conductor (d. 1944)
• 1871 – Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
• 1873 – William Green, American labor union leader (d. 1952)
• 1880 – Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1880 – Yōsuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (d. 1946)
• 1880 – Sir Robert Chapman, British soldier and politician (d. 1963)
• 1882 – Charles Ponzi, Italian fraud convict (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
• 1886 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
• 1887 – Lincoln J. Beachey, American aviator (d. 1915)
• 1890 – Edmund Lowe, American silent and early talkie film actor (d. 1971)
• 1890 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. 1939)
• 1891 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (d. 1982)
• 1893 – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d. 1998)
• 1894 – Ethel Grandin, silent film actress (d. 1988)
• 1895 – Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1895 – Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
• 1901 – Claude Choules, One of two surviving British veterans of World War I
• 1910 – Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1911 – Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 1982)
• 1911 – Harold J. Stone, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)
• 1918 – Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Julius Boros, American golfer (d. 1994)
• 1920 – James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Ronald Searle, British illustrator
• 1921 – Diana Barrymore, stage & film actress (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Barney Martin, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Doc Watson, American musician
• 1924 – Tomiichi Murayama, former Prime Minister of Japan
• 1924 – Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter (d. 1995)
• 1924 – Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (d. 1948)
• 1926 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer
• 1926 – Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (d. 2003)
• 1926 – James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
• 1927 – Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 1928 – Gudrun Pausewang, German writer
• 1930 – Heiner Geißler, German politician
• 1930 – Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
• 1933 – Marco Antonio Muñiz, Mexican singer (Los Tres Aces)
• 1933 – Margaret Fink, Australian film producer
• 1933 – Lee Radziwill, American fashion executive
• 1933 – Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor
• 1937 – Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1940 – Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
• 1940 – Perry Ellis, fashion designer (d. 1986)
• 1940 – Owen Spencer-Thomas, English broadcaster, journalist and Anglican clergyman
• 1942 – Mike Pender, English singer and guitarist (The Searchers)
• 1944 – Lee Holdridge, Haitian-American composer
• 1945 – George Miller, Australian film director
• 1946 – John Virgo, English snooker player
• 1947 – Jennifer Warnes, American singer and songwriter
• 1947 – Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (d. 2001)
• 1947 – Clifton Snider, American poet and writer
• 1948 – Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)
• 1949 – Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
• 1949 – Gloria Hendry, American actress
• 1949 – Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player
• 1950 – Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and comedian
• 1951 – Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel)
• 1951 – Heizō Takenaka, Japanese economist and retired politician
• 1952 – Rudy "Daboy" Fernandez, Filipino actor (d. 2008)
• 1953 – Robyn Hitchcock, British musician
• 1953 – Zico, Brazilian footballer
• 1954 – Édouard Lock, Canadian dance choreographer (La La La Human Steps)
• 1955 – Andy Breckman, American comedian and radio personality
• 1956 – Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer
• 1957 – Thom Hoffman, Dutch actor and photographer
• 1958 – Miranda Richardson, British actress
• 1959 – Ira Glass, American radio host
• 1959 – Duško Vujošević, Montenegrin basketball coach
• 1960 – Neal Heaton, American baseball player coach
• 1960 – Colin Wells, English cricketer
• 1961 – Perry McCarthy, English racing driver
• 1961 – Mary Page Keller, American actress
• 1961 – Knut Nærum, Norwegian comedian
• 1961 – Fatima Whitbread, English javelin thrower
• 1961 – John Matteson, American biographer
• 1962 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete
• 1962 – Glen E. Friedman, American photographer and artist
• 1962 – Herschel Walker, American football player
• 1963 – Jason Newsted, American bass player (Metallica, Voivod, Flotsam and Jetsam)
• 1963 – Sophia Aliberti, Greek actress and TV presenter
• 1964 – Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist
• 1964 – Laura Harring, Mexican-born American actress
• 1964 – Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys)
• 1965 – Dragan Stojković, Serbian footballer
• 1966 – Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor
• 1966 – Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)
• 1966 – Tone Lōc, American rapper and actor
• 1968 – Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player
• 1968 – Scott Radinsky, American musician (Pulley,Ten Foot Pole)
• 1969 – Simon Whitlock, Australian Darts Player
• 1970 – Julie Bowen, American actress
• 1970 – Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1971 – Charlie Brooker, English comedian, writer and broadcaster
• 1971 – Tyler Florence, chef, Food Network personality and cookbook author
• 1972 – Darren Anderton, English footballer
• 1973 – Romāns Vainšteins, Latvian cyclist
• 1973 – Matthew Marsden, English actor and singer
• 1973 – Victoria Zdrok, Ukrainian model
• 1974 – David Faustino, American actor
• 1974 – Paula Malai Ali, Malaysian-Bruneian TV presenter and actress
• 1976 – Fraser Gehrig, Australian Rules footballer
• 1977 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer
• 1977 – Stéphane Robidas, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Matt Diaz, American baseball player
• 1978 – Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
• 1979 – Albert Jorquera, Spanish footballer
• 1979 – Patrick Renna, American actor
• 1979 – Alex Zane, English comedian
• 1980 – Mason Unck, American football player
• 1981 – Dusty Dvoracek, American football player
• 1981 – Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress
• 1981 – Lil' Flip, American rapper
• 1981 – Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer
• 1981 – Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress
• 1981 – Julius Malema, South African politician
• 1981 – Paul Lloyd, Jr., South African professional wrestler
• 1982 – Jessica Biel, American actress
• 1982 – Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Ashley Hansen, Australian Rules footballer
• 1983 – Sarah Poewe, South African swimmer
• 1984 – Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Santonio Holmes, American football player
• 1985 – Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
• 1986 – Stacie Orrico, American singer
• 1990 – Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player

Deaths

• 1111 – Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch
• 1239 – Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1187)
• 1459 – Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)
• 1554 – John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (b. 1503)
• 1703 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)
• 1706 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1653)
• 1707 – Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1618)
• 1717 – Pierre Allix, French Protestant pastor (b. 1641)
• 1744 – Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist (b. 1674)
• 1765 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)
• 1768 – Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (b. 1686)
• 1792 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect (b. 1728)
• 1850 – Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
• 1894 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1899 – William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
• 1920 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
• 1927 – Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
• 1927 – J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
• 1932 – Eugen d'Albert, German composer (b. 1864)
• 1943 – George Thompson, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1953 – James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1875)
• 1959 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
• 1961 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
• 1966 – William Frawley, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1966 – Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1966 – Joseph Fields, American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Percy Marmont, British/American actor (b. 1883)
• 1982 – Georges Perec, French writer (b. 1936)
• 1983 – Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Sewall Wright, American biologist (b. 1889)
• 1990 – Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895)
• 1993 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Albert Sabin, Polish-born medical researcher (b. 1906)
• 1995 – Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Marguerite Duras, French writer (b. 1914)
• 1996 – John Cardinal Krol, American Catholic clergyman (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 2000 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Harlan Howard, American musician (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Luis Marden, American photojournalist (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (b. 1904)
• 2003 – Peter Smithson, English architect (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
• 2006 – William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist, creator of La Linea. (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor. (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Keith Alexander, British football manager (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day
  • Cunigunde of Luxembourg
  • March 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Hinamatsuri or "Girl's Day" (Japan)
• Liberation Day (Bulgaria)
• World Maths Day (Worldwide)
• Talk in Third Person Day (Internet)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. ~ James Branch Cabell

• selected by Kalki

2005

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. ~ Alexander Graham Bell (born 3 March 1847)

• selected by Kalki

2006

In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. ~ Georg Cantor (born 3 March 1845)

• selected by Kalki

2007

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast,
That still the knot, in spite of death, does last;
For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul,
Prove well that on your part this bond is whole,
So all we know of what they do above,
Is that they happy are, and that they love.
Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave,
Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have;
Well-chosen love is never taught to die,
But with our nobler part invades the sky.
~ Edmund Waller ~ (born 3 March 1606)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. ~ William Godwin

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

The following quote is a pick me up, for those that are wealthy, compared with where they started... ie... Rags to riches folk, who are feeling down, for whatever reason. "Never lose sight of how far you've come... then... You'll never cease to appreciate what you have."

Glen Reid

• —This unsigned comment is by User:Glen Reid (talk • contribs) .
• This doesn't seem to be a quote of anyone already highly noted in some field. ~ Kalki 01:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.. ~ Georg Cantor

• 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality. ~ Georg Cantor

• 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.. ~ Georg Cantor

• 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

• 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC) but leaning to a 4.
• 2 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

• 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

• 3 Kalki 23:29, 2 March 2007 (UTC) but leaning to a 4.
• 2 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse,
And every conqueror creates a Muse.
~ Edmund Waller ~

• 3 Kalki 19:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
~ Edmund Waller ~

• 3 Kalki 19:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.
~ Edmund Waller ~

• 3 Kalki 19:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. ~ Thomas Otway

• 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There’s in you all that we believe of heaven,—
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
~ Thomas Otway

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, "In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad?" would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer. ~ James Fitzjames Stephen

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind. ~ James Fitzjames Stephen

• 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

To say that the law of force is abandoned because force is regular, unopposed, and beneficially exercised, is to say that day and night are now such well-established institutions that the sun and moon are mere superfluities. ~ James Fitzjames Stephen

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the principle is exactly the same... The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority. ~ James Fitzjames Stephen

• 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) But would prefer to extend this to begin with "Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion."
• 3 for the extended quote. - InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash. ~ James Fitzjames Stephen

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have. ~ Émile Chartier

• 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance. ~ Émile Chartier

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 4 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today. Those woodland lakes in a thousand sitting-rooms with gold-tinted wallpaper belong to the profoundest inspirations of art. It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on. ~ Asger Jorn

OR

It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on. ~ Asger Jorn

• 3 for both versions. Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward a 4, but only for the longest version.
• 3 for the longer version; 2 for the shorter. InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate. ~ Asger Jorn

• 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

What we have, and what constitutes our strength, is our joy in life, in all of its moral and amoral manifestations. ~ Asger Jorn

• 3 and lean toward a 4. Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) In this form I rank it only a 2, although I would give what is perhaps another translation of this same statement (or at least a similar one), a 3 or even perhaps a 4:

What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life; our interest in life, in all its moral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

• 3 for the first; 2 for the possible alternative translation. InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces. It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength. ~ Asger Jorn

• 4 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) but somewhat inclined toward a 3
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,
Sniff them and think and sniff again and try
Once more to think what it is I am remembering,
Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,
Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,
With no meaning, than this bitter one.
~ Edward Thomas

• 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero. ~ Edward Thomas

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. ~ William Godwin

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The poet...who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world. ~ William Godwin

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) but would prefer to extend this much to include the full statement:

Above all, the poet, whose judgment should be clear, whose feelings should be uniform and sound, whose sense should be alive to every impression and hardened to none, who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world, ought never to have been a practising lawyer, or ought speedily to have quitted so dangerous an engagement.

• 2 for the shorter; 3 for the longer. The quote is curiously reminiscent of his son-in-law's remark about poets as the "unacknowledged legislators," etc. InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. ~ William Godwin

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. ~ William Godwin

• 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself. ~ William Godwin

• 3 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward a 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I thought with unspeakable loathing of those errors, in consequence of which every man is fated to be more or less the tyrant or the slave. I was astonished at the folly of my species, that they did not rise up as one man, and shake off chains so ignominious and misery so unsupportable. So far as related to myself I resolved, and this resolution has never been entirely forgotten by me, to hold myself disengaged from this odious scene, and never fill the part either of the oppressor or the sufferer. ~ William Godwin

• 2 Zarbon 06:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again.., only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth. ~ Asger Jorn

• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible. ~ Asger Jorn

• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art. ~ Asger Jorn

• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today. There seems to be just as much magic thinking in modern thought as in older; only it takes place in other areas. ~ Asger Jorn

• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action. ~ Émile Chartier

• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove. ~ Émile Chartier

• 3 Kalki 02:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 01:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

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Games released on March 3.

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March 3 is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1575 - Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi
• 1585 - The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza
• 1791 - The United States Mint is created by the U.S. Congress.
• 1803 - Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
• 1817 - The Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory.
• 1820 - The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
• 1833 - According to Akilattirattu Ammanai, Ayya Vaikundar arises from the sea as avatar of Narayana at Thiruchendur.
• 1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
• 1845 - For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
• 1849 - The United States Department of the Interior is established.
• 1849 - The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
• 1857 - France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
• 1861 - Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
• 1863 - Idaho Territory organizes as a political division of the United States.
• 1865 - The U.S. Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
• 1865 - Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
• 1873 - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
• 1875 - The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
• 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5).
• 1878 - Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire
• 1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created.
• 1885 - The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State.
• 1891 - The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season
• 1904 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
• 1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
• 1910 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
• 1913 - Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Ticha, now known as PFC "Cherno More".
• 1915 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded.
• 1918 - Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
• 1923 - TIME magazine is published for the first time.
• 1924 - The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk.
• 1931 - The United States officially adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as its national anthem.
• 1933 - Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.
• 1933 - US President Herbert Hoover signs the Norris-LaGuardia Act into law and opening the doors to increased unionization.
• 1938 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• 1939 - In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
• 1940 - Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
• 1942 - World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome killing more than 100 people.
• 1943 - World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
• 1944 - The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov were instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
• 1945 - World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers.
• 1953 - A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11.
• 1958 - Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
• 1961 - Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
• 1966 - A British Overseas Airways Boeing 707 flies into a mountain wave after the captain decides to give the passengers a close-up view of Mt. Fuji. All 124 people aboard are killed.
• 1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
• 1971 - Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini
• 1972 - Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes in unexplained circumstances.
• 1974 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
• 1974 - Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials reach an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.
• 1976 - 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
• 1980 - USS Nautilus stricken.
• 1985 - Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
• 1985 - Censorship: Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Huggies Diapers, claiming that the television ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."
• 1991 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
• 1991 - In two concurring referendums: 74 % of the population of Latvia vote for independence from the Soviet Union, in Estonia - 83 %.
• 1992 - The nation of Bosnia was established.
• 1995 - In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.
• 1997 - The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
• 2002 - Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favour of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
• 2004 - Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that formed InBev, the world's largest brewer.
• 2005 - Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
• 2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.

Births

• 1455 - King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
• 1520 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575)
• 1583 - Edward Herbert, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648)
• 1589 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (d. 1676)
• 1606 - Edmund Waller, British poet (d. 1687)
• 1652 - Thomas Otway, British dramatist (d. 1685)
• 1678 - Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)
• 1778 - Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hannover (d. 1841)
• 1793 - William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
• 1800 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
• 1805 - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
• 1831 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
• 1839 - Jamshedji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904)
• 1845 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)
• 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d. 1922)
• 1851 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
• 1860 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925)
• 1863 - Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947)
• 1871 - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
• 1873 - William Green, American labor union leader (d. 1952)
• 1880 - Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1880 - Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (d. 1946)
• 1883 - Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
• 1886 - Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914)
• 1886 - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
• 1890 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. 1939)
• 1893 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d. 1998)
• 1895 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1895 - Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
• 1910 - Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990)
• 1911 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1911 - Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 1982)
• 1918 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (d. 2007)
• 1918 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
• 1920 - Julius Boros, American golfer (d. 1994)
• 1920 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Ronald Searle, British illustrator
• 1922 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer
• 1923 - Barney Martin, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1923 - Doc Watson, American musician
• 1924 - Tomiichi Murayama, former Prime Minister of Japan
• 1926 - Lys Assia, Swiss singer
• 1926 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate
• 1926 - James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
• 1927 - Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 1930 - Heiner Geißler, German politician
• 1930 - Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
• 1933 - Marco Antonio Muñiz, Mexican singer (Los Tres Aces)
• 1933 - Lee Radziwill, American fashion executive
• 1933 - Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor
• 1937 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1940 - Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
• 1940 - Perry Ellis, fashion designer (d. 1986)
• 1940 - Owen Spencer-Thomas, English broadcaster, journalist and Anglican clergyman
• 1942 - Mike Pender, English singer and guitarist (The Searchers)
• 1945 - George Miller, Australian film director
• 1946 - John Virgo, English snooker player
• 1947 - Jennifer Warnes, American singer and songwriter
• 1947 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (d. 2001)
• 1948 - Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)
• 1949 - Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
• 1949 - Gloria Hendry, American actress
• 1949 - Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player
• 1950 - Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and comedian
• 1951 - Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel)
• 1952 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998)
• 1953 - Robyn Hitchcock, British musician
• 1953 - Zico, Brazilian footballer
• 1954 - Édouard Lock, Canadian dance choreographer (La La La Human Steps)
• 1955 - Andy Breckman, American comedian and radio personality
• 1956 - Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer
• 1958 - Miranda Richardson, British actress
• 1958 - Marc Silvestri, American comic book artist and publisher (Top Cow Productions)
• 1959 - Ira Glass, American radio host
• 1960 - Neal Heaton, American baseball player
• 1960 - Colin Wells, English cricketer
• 1961 - Perry McCarthy, English racing driver
• 1961 - Fatima Whitbread, English javelin thrower
• 1961 - Knut Nærum, Norwegian comedian
• 1962 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete
• 1962 - Glen E. Friedman, American photographer and artist
• 1962 - Herschel Walker, American football player
• 1964 - Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist
• 1964 - Laura Harring, Mexican-born American actress
• 1964 - Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys)
• 1966 - Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor
• 1966 - Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)
• 1966 - Tone Lōc, American rapper and actor
• 1968 - Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player
• 1970 - Julie Bowen, American actress
• 1970 - Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1971 - Tyler Florence, chef, Food Network personality, & cookbook author
• 1973 - Romans Vainsteins, Latvian cyclist
• 1973 - Victoria Zdrok, Ukrainian model
• 1974 - David Faustino, American actor
• 1976 - Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer
• 1977 - Ronan Keating, Irish singer
• 1977 - Stéphane Robidas, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 - Matt Diaz, American baseball player
• 1978 - Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
• 1979 - Patrick Renna, American actor
• 1979 - Alex Zane, English comedian
• 1980 - Mason Unck, American football player
• 1981 - Dusty Dvoracek, American football player
• 1981 - Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress
• 1981 - Lil' Flip, American rapper
• 1981 - Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer
• 1981 - Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress
• 1982 - Jessica Biel, American actress
• 1985 - Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
• 1986 - Stacie Orrico, American singer
• 1992 - Madison Cross, American singer and actress
• 1997 - Maria Francisca Isabel de Bragança, Infanta, daughter of Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza

Deaths

• 1111 - Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch
• 1239 - Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1187)
• 1459 - Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)
• 1554 - John Frederick (b. 1503)
• 1703 - Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)
• 1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1653)
• 1707 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1618)
• 1717 - Pierre Allix, French Protestant pastor (b. 1641)
• 1744 - Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist
• 1765 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)
• 1768 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (b. 1686)
• 1792 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (b. 1728)
• 1850 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
• 1894 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1899 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
• 1927 - Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
• 1927 - J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
• 1932 - Eugen d'Albert, German composer (b. 1864)
• 1943 - George Thompson, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1953 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1875)
• 1959 - Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
• 1961 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
• 1966 - William Frawley, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1966 - Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1982 - Georges Perec, French writer (b. 1936)
• 1983 - Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
• 1983 - Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
• 1987 - Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1913)
• 1988 - Sewall Wright, American biologist (b. 1889)
• 1990 - Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
• 1991 - Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895)
• 1993 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b. 1910)
• 1993 - Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist (b. 1903)
• 1993 - Albert Sabin, Polish-born medical researcher (b. 1906)
• 1995 - Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1907)
• 1996 - Marguerite Duras, French writer (b. 1914)
• 1996 - John Cardinal Krol, American Catholic clergyman (b. 1910)
• 1998 - Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (b. 1915)
• 1999 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 2000 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
• 2000 - Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (b. 1963)
• 2001 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2002 - Harlan Howard, American musician (b. 1927)
• 2003 - Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)
• 2003 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (b. 1913)
• 2003 - Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (b. 1904)
• 2003 - Peter Smithson, English architect (b. 1923)
• 2004 - Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
• 2005 - Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
• 2005 - Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach (b. 1928)
• 2006 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
• 2006 - William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
• 2007 - Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Hinamatsuri - Japanese celebration day for girls.
• Malawi - Martyr's Day.
• Bulgaria - Liberation Day.
• Georgia - Mothers Day
• March 3

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada