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03 March, 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.
03 March, 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.
03 March, 2004
Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that formed InBev, the worlds largest brewer.
03 March, 2002
Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favour of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
03 March, 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.
03 March, 1995
In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends.
03 March, 1992
The nation of Bosnia was established.
03 March, 1991
An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
03 March, 1991
In two concurring referendums: 74 % of the population of Latvia vote for independence from the Soviet Union, in Estonia - 83 %.
03 March, 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.
03 March, 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."
03 March, 1980
USS Nautilus stricken.
03 March, 1976
5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
03 March, 1974
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
03 March, 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.
03 March, 1972
Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes in unexplained circumstances.
03 March, 1971
Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and Indias official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini
03 March, 1969
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
03 March, 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.
03 March, 1961
Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
03 March, 1958
Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
03 March, 1953
A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11.
03 March, 1945
World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers.
03 March, 1944
The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov were instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
03 March, 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.
03 March, 1942
World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
03 March, 1940
Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleċ, Sweden.
03 March, 1939
In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
03 March, 1938
Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
03 March, 1933
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.
03 March, 1933
US President Herbert Hoover signs the Norris-LaGuardia Act into law and opening the doors to increased unionization.
03 March, 1931
The United States officially adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as its national anthem.
03 March, 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 ofKemal Atatürk.
03 March, 1923
TIME magazine is published for the first time.
03 March, 1918
Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russias involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
03 March, 1915
NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded.
03 March, 1913
Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Ticha, now known as PFC "Cherno More".
03 March, 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.
03 March, 1905
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
03 March, 1904
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edisons cylinder.
03 March, 1891
The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season
03 March, 1885
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State.
03 March, 1879
The United States Geological Survey is created.
03 March, 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
03 March, 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5).
03 March, 1875
The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
03 March, 1873
Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
03 March, 1865
The U.S. Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmens Bureau.
03 March, 1865
Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
03 March, 1863
Idaho Territory organizes as a political division of the United States.

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