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.
1849 - The U.S. Department of the Interior was established.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the National Academy of Sciences.
1879 - Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first female lawyer to be admitted to appear before the United States Supreme Court.
1918 - Germany, Austria and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
1931 - The "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem.
1943 - In London’s East End, 173 people died in a crush of bodies at the Bethnal Green tube station, which was being used as a wartime air raid shelter.
1945 - The Allies finally secured the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.
1960 - Lucille Ball filed for divorce from her husband, Desi Arnaz, a day after they had finished filming the last episode of "The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show."
1969 - Apollo 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module.
1974 - A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, killing all 346 people on board.
1991 - Twenty-five people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashed while approaching Colorado Springs airport.
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.
2003 - New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.
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.
2018 - Roger Bannister, the British athlete who, while a medical student, became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes, died in Oxford, England at age 88.
2020 - In a surprise move, the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a half-point, its largest cut in more than a decade, to support the economy in the face of the spreading coronavirus.
2022 - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a nationwide settlement over its role in the opioid crisis, with the Sackler family members who own the company boosting their cash contribution to as much as $6 billion in a deal intended to staunch a flood of lawsuits.
Birthdays
21 - Thomas Barbusca (actor)
23 - Alex Lange (actor)
25 - Isabelle Mathers (model)
26 - Jayson Tatum (basketball player)
27 - Camila Cabello (singer)
27 - Amber Midthunder (actress)
29 - Maine Mendoza (TV host)
37 - Shraddha Kapoor (actress)
42 - Jessica Biel (actress)
50 - David Faustino (actor)
54 - Julie Bowen (actress)
58 - Tone Loc (rapper/actor)
62 - Herschel Walker (football player)
62 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (track and field athlete)
63 - Mary Page Keller (actress)
66 - Miranda Richardson (actress)
70 - Robert Gossett (actor)
71 - Robyn Hitchcock (singer)
77 - Jennifer Warnes (singer)
79 - Hattie Winston (actress)
79 - George Miller (director)
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Today in Sports History - March 3
1968 - Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) became the second NHL player to score 1,000 regular-season career points.
1984 - Peter Ueberroth is named the next commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1992 - Mike Bossy's #2 became the second number retired by the New York Islanders.
2001 - John Ruiz became the first Hispanic heavyweight champion. He beat Evander Holyfield for the WBA heavyweight title.
2006 - In Tokyo, Japan, the opener of the World Baseball Classic took place.
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.
1849 - The U.S. Department of the Interior was established.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the National Academy of Sciences.
1879 - Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first female lawyer to be admitted to appear before the United States Supreme Court.
1918 - Germany, Austria and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
1931 - The "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem.
1943 - In London’s East End, 173 people died in a crush of bodies at the Bethnal Green tube station, which was being used as a wartime air raid shelter.
1945 - The Allies finally secured the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.
1960 - Lucille Ball filed for divorce from her husband, Desi Arnaz, a day after they had finished filming the last episode of "The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show."
1969 - Apollo 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module.
1974 - A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, killing all 346 people on board.
1991 - Twenty-five people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashed while approaching Colorado Springs airport.
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.
2003 - New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.
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.
2018 - Roger Bannister, the British athlete who, while a medical student, became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes, died in Oxford, England at age 88.
2020 - In a surprise move, the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a half-point, its largest cut in more than a decade, to support the economy in the face of the spreading coronavirus.
2022 - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a nationwide settlement over its role in the opioid crisis, with the Sackler family members who own the company boosting their cash contribution to as much as $6 billion in a deal intended to staunch a flood of lawsuits.
Birthdays
21 - Thomas Barbusca (actor)
23 - Alex Lange (actor)
25 - Isabelle Mathers (model)
26 - Jayson Tatum (basketball player)
27 - Camila Cabello (singer)
27 - Amber Midthunder (actress)
29 - Maine Mendoza (TV host)
37 - Shraddha Kapoor (actress)
42 - Jessica Biel (actress)
50 - David Faustino (actor)
54 - Julie Bowen (actress)
58 - Tone Loc (rapper/actor)
62 - Herschel Walker (football player)
62 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (track and field athlete)
63 - Mary Page Keller (actress)
66 - Miranda Richardson (actress)
70 - Robert Gossett (actor)
71 - Robyn Hitchcock (singer)
77 - Jennifer Warnes (singer)
79 - Hattie Winston (actress)
79 - George Miller (director)
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Today in Sports History - March 3
1968 - Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens) became the second NHL player to score 1,000 regular-season career points.
1984 - Peter Ueberroth is named the next commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1992 - Mike Bossy's #2 became the second number retired by the New York Islanders.
2001 - John Ruiz became the first Hispanic heavyweight champion. He beat Evander Holyfield for the WBA heavyweight title.
2006 - In Tokyo, Japan, the opener of the World Baseball Classic took place.
