3rd March

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1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
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, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
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.
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.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
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.
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 – 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 House of Representatives in New Zealand , 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.

Births
1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer
1869 – Henry Wood, English conductor (d. 1944) – founder of “The Proms”
1911 – Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
1920 – Ronald Searle, English illustrator (d. 2011)
1928 – Daphne Slater, English actress (d. 2012)
1942 – Mike Pender, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Searchers and Mike Pender's Searchers)
1946 – John Virgo, English snooker player and sportscaster
1961 – Fatima Whitbread, English javelin thrower
1977 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer-songwriter and actor (Boyzone)

Deaths
1959 – Lou Costello, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1906)
1983 – Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1907)
1987 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1913)
2003 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)
2010 – Michael Foot, English politician (b. 1913)

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