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Events
473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
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 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of Continental Marines begins the Battle of Nassau.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
1791 – Congress establishes the U.S. Mint.
1799 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
1863 – The first ever wartime draft of American citizens was initiated.
1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1873 – 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.
1878 – The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; a few months afterwards the Congress of Berlin stripped its status to a vassal principality of the Ottoman Empire.
1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
1887 – Six-year-old blind and deaf Helen Keller begins instruction with Anne Sullivan.
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.
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 thirteen-century-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 adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1938 – The Mallard, the fastest steam driven train on the planet, was built by LNER Doncaster Works England.
1939 – In Mumbai (Bombay), Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleå, Sweden.
1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
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 thirteen-century-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 adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1938 – The Mallard, the fastest steam driven train on the planet, was built by LNER Doncaster Works England.
1939 – In Mumbai (Bombay), Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman 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 East London, 173 people are killed in a crush of bodies while trying to enter the Bethnal Green tube station, which was being used as a wartime air raid shelter.
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 recapture Manila in the Philippines.
1945 – World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1958 – Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
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.
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.
1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1991 – In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
1991 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
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.
2005 – Mayerthorpe tragedy: 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.
2005 – Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
2009 – The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.
2012 – Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 16 people killed and up to 58 people injured.
2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.
2014 – The trial of Oscar Pistorius begins in Pretoria.
2015 – Slovenia legalizes same-sex marriage.
Job Boretsky, Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and All-Rus' (1620-1631)
Commemoration of Grigory Lisovsky, Metropolitan of Poltava (1927)
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 recapture Manila in the Philippines.
1945 – World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1958 – Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
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.
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.
1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1991 – In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
1991 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
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.
2005 – Mayerthorpe tragedy: 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.
2005 – Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
2009 – The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.
2012 – Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 16 people killed and up to 58 people injured.
2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.
2014 – The trial of Oscar Pistorius begins in Pretoria.
2015 – Slovenia legalizes same-sex marriage.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Aelred, Abbot, Confessor. Semi-double.
Contemporary Western
Cunigunde of Luxembourg
Katharine Drexel
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
John and Charles Wesley (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
March 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Eutropius and Cleonicus of Amasea, and Basiliscus of Comana (308)
Venerable Piama, virgin (337)
Hieromartyr Theodoretus, Bishop, of Antioch, by beheading (361-363)
Venerable Alexandra of Alexandria (4th c.)
Venerable Saints Zenon and Zoilus
Venerable Shio Mgvime, monk, of Georgia (6th c.)
Saint John IV (Chrysostom), Catholicos of Georgia (1001)
Saint John V (Chrysostom), Catholicos of Georgia (1048)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Hemeterius and Cheledonius, believed to have been soldiers, suffered
in Calahorra in Old Castile (ca. 298)
Saint Camilla, born in Civitavecchia, she became a disciple of St Germanus
of Auxerre in France, where she lived as an anchoress (ca. 437)
Martyrs Felix, Luciolus, Fortunatus, Marcia and Companions, a group of forty
martyrs in North Africa.[14]
Saint Winwaloe, Abbot of Landévennec Abbey, Brittany (ca. 530)
Saint Titian of Brescia, Germanic by birth, became Bishop of Brescia in Italy (ca. 536)
Saint Caluppan of Auvergne in Gaul (576)
Saint Non (Nonnita, Nonna), mother of St. David of Wales (6th c.)
Saint Foila (Faile), sister of St Colgan (6th c.)
Saint Arthelais, one of the patron-saints of Benevento in Italy, where she fled
from Constantinople (6th c.)
Saint Lamalisse (Molaise of Leighlin), a hermit in Scotland, he left his name
to the islet of Lamlash off the coast of the Isle of Arran in Scotland (7th c.)
Saint Sacer (Mo-Sacra, Mosacra), founder of the monastery of Saggart near Dublin
in Ireland (7th c.)
Saint Cele-Christ, otherwise "Worshipper of Christ", a hermit for many years,
eventually forced to become a Bishop in Leinster (ca. 728)
Saint Anselm, Abbott, founder of a monastery at Fanano, and the Nonantola Abbey (803)
Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg, wife of Henry II, founder of Kaufungen Abbey (1039)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Holy 9 Martyrs of Georgia (Nine Brothers Kherkheulidze), at Marabda (1625)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Virgin-martyr Martha Kovrova and martyr Michael Stroeva (1938)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the Volokolamsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1572)Traditional Western
Aelred, Abbot, Confessor. Semi-double.
Contemporary Western
Cunigunde of Luxembourg
Katharine Drexel
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
John and Charles Wesley (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
March 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Eutropius and Cleonicus of Amasea, and Basiliscus of Comana (308)
Venerable Piama, virgin (337)
Hieromartyr Theodoretus, Bishop, of Antioch, by beheading (361-363)
Venerable Alexandra of Alexandria (4th c.)
Venerable Saints Zenon and Zoilus
Venerable Shio Mgvime, monk, of Georgia (6th c.)
Saint John IV (Chrysostom), Catholicos of Georgia (1001)
Saint John V (Chrysostom), Catholicos of Georgia (1048)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Hemeterius and Cheledonius, believed to have been soldiers, suffered
in Calahorra in Old Castile (ca. 298)
Saint Camilla, born in Civitavecchia, she became a disciple of St Germanus
of Auxerre in France, where she lived as an anchoress (ca. 437)
Martyrs Felix, Luciolus, Fortunatus, Marcia and Companions, a group of forty
martyrs in North Africa.[14]
Saint Winwaloe, Abbot of Landévennec Abbey, Brittany (ca. 530)
Saint Titian of Brescia, Germanic by birth, became Bishop of Brescia in Italy (ca. 536)
Saint Caluppan of Auvergne in Gaul (576)
Saint Non (Nonnita, Nonna), mother of St. David of Wales (6th c.)
Saint Foila (Faile), sister of St Colgan (6th c.)
Saint Arthelais, one of the patron-saints of Benevento in Italy, where she fled
from Constantinople (6th c.)
Saint Lamalisse (Molaise of Leighlin), a hermit in Scotland, he left his name
to the islet of Lamlash off the coast of the Isle of Arran in Scotland (7th c.)
Saint Sacer (Mo-Sacra, Mosacra), founder of the monastery of Saggart near Dublin
in Ireland (7th c.)
Saint Cele-Christ, otherwise "Worshipper of Christ", a hermit for many years,
eventually forced to become a Bishop in Leinster (ca. 728)
Saint Anselm, Abbott, founder of a monastery at Fanano, and the Nonantola Abbey (803)
Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg, wife of Henry II, founder of Kaufungen Abbey (1039)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Holy 9 Martyrs of Georgia (Nine Brothers Kherkheulidze), at Marabda (1625)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Virgin-martyr Martha Kovrova and martyr Michael Stroeva (1938)
Other commemorations
Job Boretsky, Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and All-Rus' (1620-1631)
Commemoration of Grigory Lisovsky, Metropolitan of Poltava (1927)
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