| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 1554 | Mar 3 | Johan Frederik de Greatmoedige (50), ruler of Saxon (1532-47), died. |
| 1801 | Mar 3 | 1st US Jewish Governor, David Emanuel, took office in Georgia. |
| 1817 | Mar 3 | Mississippi Territory was divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi. |
| 1835 | Mar 3 | Congress authorized a US mint at New Orleans, LA. |
| 1842 | Mar 3 | 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s 3rd “Scottish” Symphony. |
| 1843 | Mar 3 | US Congress appropriated $30,000 “to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs.” |
| 1847 | Mar 3 | Post Office Department was authorized to issue postage stamps. |
| 1851 | Mar 3 | Congress authorized the smallest US silver coin, a 3¢ piece. |
| 1855 | Mar 3 | Registration of letters was authorized by Congress. |
| 1871 | Mar 3 | Congress established the civil service system. |
| 1879 | Mar 3 | US geological survey director was authorized in Department of the Interior. |
| 1887 | Mar 3 | Anne Mansfield Sullivan arrived at the Alabama home of Capt. and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher of Helen, their blind and deaf 6-year-old daughter. |
| 1900 | Mar 3 | US Steel Corporation organized. |
| 1905 | Mar 3 | The Russian Czar agreed to create an elected assembly. |
| 1906 | Mar 3 | Vuia I aircraft, built by Romanian Traja Vuia, was tested in France. |
| 1913 | Mar 3 | Ida B. Wells-Barnett demonstrated for female suffrage in Washington DC. |
| 1917 | Mar 3 | Congress passed the 1st excess profits tax on corporations. |
| 1922 | Mar 3 | WWJ-AM in Detroit, MI, began radio transmissions. |
| 1933 | Mar 3 | Mount Rushmore was dedicated. |
| 1945 | Mar 3 | Churchill visited Montgomery’s headquarters. |
| 1958 | Mar 3 | Nuri ash Said became premier of Iraq. |
| 1962 | Mar 3 | British Antarctic Territory was formed. |
| 1965 | Mar 3 | Temptations’ “My Girl” reached #1. |
| 1967 | Mar 3 | The US performed a nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site. The Mushroom test was part of Operation Latchkey. |
| 1971 | Mar 3 | South African Broadcasting Corp lifted its ban on the Beatles. |
| 1974 | Mar 3 | “Sextet” opened at Bijou Theater in NYC for 9 performances. |
| 1979 | Mar 3 | Mustafa Barzani (b.1903), Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), died in Washington, DC. He was succeeded by his son Massoud. |
| 1980 | Mar 3 | The submarine Nautilus, the world’s 1st atomic ship, was decommissioned at the Mare Island Shipyard in Vallejo, Ca. |
| 1984 | Mar 3 | Peter Ueberroth (b.1937) was elected baseball commissioner, effective Oct 1. |
| 1985 | Mar 3 | The TV series “Moonlighting” with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premiered. |
| 1990 | Mar 3 | President Bush sparked controversy by expressing opposition to the settlement of Soviet Jewish refugees in East Jerusalem. |
| 1991 | Mar 3 | “Big Love” opened at Plymouth Theater in NYC for 41 performances. |
| 1992 | Mar 3 | President Bush apologized for raising taxes after pledging not to. |
| 1994 | Mar 3 | “Damn Yankees” opened at Marquis Theater in NYC for 510 performances. |
| 1996 | Mar 3 | The 26th Easter Seal Telethon was held. |
| 1997 | Mar 3 | Vice President Al Gore, under fire for his aggressive role in campaign fund raising, acknowledged he’d solicited donations from his White House office but insisted he did not do “anything wrong, much less illegal.” But he said he would never do it again. |
| 1998 | Mar 3 | Presidential confidant Vernon Jordan testified before the grand jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky matter. |
| 1999 | Mar 3 | Monica Lewinsky, in an ABC interview, the 20/20 TV show, timed to coincide with the publication of her book, recounted for Barbara Walters some of the fondest, as well as most painful, aspects of her relationship with President Clinton. |
| 2000 | Mar 3 | Kevin Uliassi landed in Burma on the 10th day of his attempt to circle the globe as a solo balloonist. |
| 2002 | Mar 3 | US military forces and 6 allied nations made air and ground assaults against al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the Afghan Shah-e-Kot mountains of eastern Paktia province. |
| 2004 | Mar 3 | In Portland, Ore., hundreds of gay couples applied for marriage licenses following an overnight policy change by county commissioners. |
| 2005 | Mar 3 | President Bush visited CIA headquarters, where he promised agency employees they would retain an “incredibly vital” role in safeguarding the nation’s security despite the creation of a new post of national director of intelligence. |
| 2006 | Mar 3 | President Bush arrived in Pakistan to meet with top officials, including President Pervez Musharraf, to discuss the war on terror. Thousands rallied across Pakistan against cartoons of Prophet Muhammad and a planned visit by President Bush as radical Islamic groups called a strike that shut shops and businesses in several major cities. |
| 2007 | Mar 3 | In Oklahoma Cherokee Nation members voted to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves. |
| 2008 | Mar 3 | The US and EU filed a WTO case against China demanding that it loosen restraints on foreign companies vying for a greater slice of the country’s lucrative market for financial information. |
| 2009 | Mar 3 | US President Barack Obama and British PM Gordon Brown held their first White House talks. They discussed the coordination of worldwide actions to stimulate economies. |
| 2010 | Mar 3 | NYC Rep. Charles Rangel (b.1930), announced he will temporarily step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, saying he didn’t want his ethics controversy to jeopardize election prospects for fellow Democrats. |
| 2011 | Mar 3 | In Nevada Micaela “Mickey” Costanzo (16), disappeared after track practice at West Wendover High School. Her body was found March 5 in a shallow grave in a remote desert area about five miles west of West Wendover, near the Utah border. |
| 2012 | Mar 3 | In California 5 men from Orange County were charged with mortgage fraud. They had businesses promising homeowners secure loan modifications for an up-front fee. They just kept the fees with no loan modifications. |
| 2013 | Mar 3 | In Afghan insurgents attacked a supply convoy and killed one soldier in Badakhshan province. 23 other soldiers were captured. 6 of the soldiers were released following negotiations, but 16 others were executed. |
| 2014 | Mar 3 | In Michigan Raulie Casteel was sentenced to 18-40 years in prison for shooting at two dozen vehicles on a busy southeastern highway. |
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