Daily Calendar for Friday, March 3, 2028
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Friday, March 3, 2028
Born
- Madeleine de Verchères (Canadian military heroine who in 1692, at age 14, defended her family’s fort, Fort Verchères, in New France ) –
- George Mortimer Pullman (industrialist; designed luxury railroad cars) –
- Alexander Graham Bell (inventor) –
- Jean Harlow (actress) –
- Arnold Newman (photographer) –
- James Montgomery Doohan (actor, linguist) –
- Perry Ellis (fashion designer) –
- Miranda Richardson (actress) –
- Herschel Walker (football player) –
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee (heptathlon athlete; Olympic gold medalist) –
- Jessica Biel (actress) –
- Camila Cabello (singer) –
- Jayson Tatum (basketball player) –
Died
- Lou Costello (actor & comedian) –
- Danny Kaye (actor) –
- Arthur Murray (dance teacher) –
- Fred Friendly (documentary producer) –
- Hank Ballard (singer and songwriter who wrote and recorded The Twist in 1958 which later was recorded by Chubby Checker) –
- James Ludlow Elliot (astronomer who discovered the rings of Uranus) –
Events
- First U.S. foreign aid bill authorized $50,000 for relief of victims of an earthquake in Venezuela –
- The Missouri Compromise was passed by U.S. Congress, with President James Monroe signing it on March 6. The legislation designated that Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. (Maine became a state on March 15, 1820; Missouri became a state on August 10, 1821.) –
- Florida admitted to the Union as the 27th state –
- Serfs were emancipated in Russia –
- National Academy of Sciences signed into existence by Abraham Lincoln to advise the government on scientific and technical issues –
- First organized ice hockey match, Montreal, Canada –
- Carmen, by Georges Bizet, premiered in Paris –
- Belva Ann Bennet Lockwood became first woman to try a case before the U.S. Supreme Court –
- Anne Sullivan began teaching deaf/blind Helen Keller –
- The U.S. Steel Corp. was formed –
- Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, began taking prisoners’ fingerprints –
- The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA, was founded –
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed by Russia and the Central Powers –
- The first international airmail delivery to the United States was made from Vancouver, BC, to Seattle, WA –
- The Star-Spangled Banner was officially designated U.S. national anthem –
- First annual meeting of General Wildlife Federation (later, NWF), 1937. –
- Florida became the 27th U.S. state, 1845 –
- Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth, with autonomy in internal affairs –
- First fatal jetliner accident occured when a Canadian plane crashed in Karachi, Pakistan –
- Pioneer 4, first U.S. spacecraft to orbit Sun, launched –
- Apollo 9 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy –
- Pierre Trudeau replaced Joe Clark as prime minister of Canada –
- The Australia Act goes into effect, effectively severing legal ties between Australia and the United Kingdom. –
- Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world solo without stopping or refueling, safely touching down in his custom-built plane 67 hours after taking off –
- A 50-pound 6-ounce smallmouth buffalo fish was caught in Lake Fork, Texas –
Weather
- Savannah, Georgia, received 10 inches of snow –
- F5 “Candlestick Park” tornado struck Jackson, Mississippi –