I missed yesterday...........so a double-dose today (and yesterday)
March 3
1791 - Congress passed a measure taxing distilled spirits; it was the first internal revenue act in U.S. history.
1845 - Florida became the 27th state.
1847 - Inventor Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland.
1849 - Congress created the Minnesota Territory.
1849 - The U.S. Department of the Interior was established.
1879 - Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court.
1887 - Anne Sullivan arrived at the Alabama home of Capt. and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher of their blind and deaf 6-year-old daughter, Helen.
1918 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russian participation in World War I. (The treaty was rendered moot by the November 1918 armistice.)
1931 - The "Star Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem.
1960 - Lucille Ball filed for divorce from her husband, Desi Arnaz, a day after they had finished filming the final episode of "The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show" on Arnaz's 43rd birthday.
1969 - Apollo 9 was launched on a mission to test the lunar module that was used in the moon landings.
1985 - Coal miners in Britain voted to end a year-long strike that proved to be the longest and most violent walkout in British history.
1991 - Rodney King's vicious beating by Los Angeles police officers was caught on videotape.
2000 - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile after being detained in Britain on torture charges.
2002 - Voters in Switzerland approved joining the United Nations, abandoning almost 200 years of formal neutrality.
2003 - New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.
2008 - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said his campaign had never given Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show, despite a Canadian memo indicating otherwise.
2017 - The Nintendo Switch, a hybrid game machine that works as both a console at home and a portable tablet on the go, made its debut.
Birthdays
31 - Shraddha Kapoor (actress)
33 - Nathalie Kelley (actress)
33 - Metisha Schaefer (model)
36 - Jessica Biel (actress)
37 - Justin Gabriel (professional wrestler)
41 - Christi Lukasiak (reality star)
41 - Buddy Valastro (chef)
45 - Alison King (actress)
46 - Christian Oliver (actor)
48 - Julie Bowen (actress)
53 - Ian Beattie (actor)
73 - George Miller (director)
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Today in History - March 3
1875 - The first recorded hockey game took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1951 - Bill Mikvy of Temple sets an NCAA men's basketball record with 73 points in a game.
1959 - San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park.
1967 - Chicago White Sox given permission to use semi-designated hitter in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game).
1968 - Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) becomes second NHL player to score 1,000 points.
1974 - George Foreman knocks out Ken Norton.
1984 - Peter Ueberroth is elected baseball commissioner (Effective October 1).
1985 - Willie Shoemaker becomes first jockey to win $100 million in career earnings.
1987 - Ray Dandridge, third baseman in Negro Leagues, elected to Hall of Fame.
1992 - Mike Bossy's #22 is second number retired by New York Islanders.
2006 - In the opening game of the inaugural World Baseball Classic at the Tokyo Dome, South Korea blanks Taiwan, 2-0.
2007 - Mixed martial artist Randy Couture wins the UFC heavyweight championship at the age of 43 in the main event of UFC 68.
March 3
1791 - Congress passed a measure taxing distilled spirits; it was the first internal revenue act in U.S. history.
1845 - Florida became the 27th state.
1847 - Inventor Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland.
1849 - Congress created the Minnesota Territory.
1849 - The U.S. Department of the Interior was established.
1879 - Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court.
1887 - Anne Sullivan arrived at the Alabama home of Capt. and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher of their blind and deaf 6-year-old daughter, Helen.
1918 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russian participation in World War I. (The treaty was rendered moot by the November 1918 armistice.)
1931 - The "Star Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem.
1960 - Lucille Ball filed for divorce from her husband, Desi Arnaz, a day after they had finished filming the final episode of "The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show" on Arnaz's 43rd birthday.
1969 - Apollo 9 was launched on a mission to test the lunar module that was used in the moon landings.
1985 - Coal miners in Britain voted to end a year-long strike that proved to be the longest and most violent walkout in British history.
1991 - Rodney King's vicious beating by Los Angeles police officers was caught on videotape.
2000 - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile after being detained in Britain on torture charges.
2002 - Voters in Switzerland approved joining the United Nations, abandoning almost 200 years of formal neutrality.
2003 - New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.
2008 - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said his campaign had never given Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show, despite a Canadian memo indicating otherwise.
2017 - The Nintendo Switch, a hybrid game machine that works as both a console at home and a portable tablet on the go, made its debut.
Birthdays
31 - Shraddha Kapoor (actress)
33 - Nathalie Kelley (actress)
33 - Metisha Schaefer (model)
36 - Jessica Biel (actress)
37 - Justin Gabriel (professional wrestler)
41 - Christi Lukasiak (reality star)
41 - Buddy Valastro (chef)
45 - Alison King (actress)
46 - Christian Oliver (actor)
48 - Julie Bowen (actress)
53 - Ian Beattie (actor)
73 - George Miller (director)
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Today in History - March 3
1875 - The first recorded hockey game took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1951 - Bill Mikvy of Temple sets an NCAA men's basketball record with 73 points in a game.
1959 - San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park.
1967 - Chicago White Sox given permission to use semi-designated hitter in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game).
1968 - Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) becomes second NHL player to score 1,000 points.
1974 - George Foreman knocks out Ken Norton.
1984 - Peter Ueberroth is elected baseball commissioner (Effective October 1).
1985 - Willie Shoemaker becomes first jockey to win $100 million in career earnings.
1987 - Ray Dandridge, third baseman in Negro Leagues, elected to Hall of Fame.
1992 - Mike Bossy's #22 is second number retired by New York Islanders.
2006 - In the opening game of the inaugural World Baseball Classic at the Tokyo Dome, South Korea blanks Taiwan, 2-0.
2007 - Mixed martial artist Randy Couture wins the UFC heavyweight championship at the age of 43 in the main event of UFC 68.
