more events on March 3
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1999
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton.
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1973
Japan discloses its first defense plan since World War II.
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1969
Sirhan Sirhan testifies in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy.
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1952
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds New York’s Feinberg Law banning Communist teachers in the United States.
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1945
Finland declares war on the Axis.
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1942
The RAF raids the industrial suburbs of Paris.
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1941
Moscow denounces the Axis rule in Bulgaria.
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1940
A Nazi air raid kills 108 on a British liner in the English Channel.
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1939
In Bombay, Gandhi begins a fast to protest the state’s autocratic rule.
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1931
President Herbert Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner,” the national anthem.
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1927
Nicolas Freeling, crime writer.
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1926
James Merrill, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Divine Comedies).
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1923
The first issue of Time magazine is published. It’s editor, Henry R. Luce, is just out of Yale.
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1920
Robert Searle, cartoonist.
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1919
Boeing flies the first U.S. international airmail from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle, Washington.
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1918
Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.
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The Soviets and Germany sign a peace treaty at Brest-Litovsk depriving the Soviets of White Russia.
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1916
Robert Whitehead, Broadway producer (Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons).
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1911
Jean Harlow, (Hell’s Angels, Dinner at Eight).
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1905
The Russian Czar agrees to create an elected assembly.
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1895
Matthew Ridgway, U.S. Army leader in World War II and Korea.
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1878
Russia and the Ottomans sign the Treaty of San Stefano, granting independence to Serbia.
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1877
Rutherford B. Hayes, the republican governor of Ohio is elected president, his election confirmed by an electoral commission after disputed election the previous November.
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1873
William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor.
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1863
President Abraham Lincoln signs the conscription act compelling U.S. citizens to report for duty in the Civil War or pay $300.00.
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1861
The serfs of Russia are emancipated by Alexander II as part of a program of westernization.
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1857
Under pretexts, Britain and France declare war on China.
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1847
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first telephone as well as other devices.
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1845
Florida becomes the 27th U.S. state.
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1831
George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car.
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1817
The first commercial steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans is opened.
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1803
The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, begins.
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1791
Congress passes a resolution authorizing the U.S. Mint; legislation creating the mint will be passed on Apr. 2, 1792.