| 3rd 
            March, on this day  78 Origin of Saka 
            Era (India) 468 St 
            Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius
 493 Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker
 1409 Austrian civil war ends
 1575 Battle 
            of Tukaroi  Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army
 1585 The 
            Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea 
            Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza
 1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope 
            Eugene IV
 1605 Pope 
            Clement VIII ends reign as Pope
 1627 Piet 
            Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador, Brazil
 1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
 1638 Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Inverness 
            Castle
 1776 US commodore Esek 
            Hopkins occupies Nassau, Bahamas
 1779 Battle 
            of Brier Creek an American Revolutionary War battle
 1791 US 1st Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages)
 1791 Congress 
            establishes US Mint
 1794 1st performance of Joseph 
            Haydn's 101st Symphony in D
 1794 Richard 
            Allen founded African 
            Methodist Episcopal Church
 1801 1st US Jewish Governor, David 
            Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
 1802 Beethoven's 
            Moonlight 
            Sonata is first published
 1803 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, 
            John Pickering, begins
 1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
 1812 US Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake 
            vicitims)
 1813 Office of Surgeon General of the US army is established
 1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners and demanding 
            tribute
 1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi
 1820 Missouri 
            Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
 1837 US President Andrew 
            Jackson and Congress recognises Republic 
            of Texas
 1838 Rebellion at Pelee 
            Island, Ontario Canada
 1842 1st performance of Felix 
            Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony
 1842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Massachusetts)
 1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability 
            of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the 
            US
 1845 1st US law overriding a Presidential veto (John 
            Tyler's)
 1845 Congress authorises ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
 1845 Florida becomes 27th state
 1847 US Post Office Department authorised to issue postage stamps
 1849 Territory of Minnesota is formed
 1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorised by Congress
 1855 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
 1861 Emancipation 
            reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signed the emancipation 
            reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.
 1862 General 
            Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid, MO
 1863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
 1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National 
            Academy of Sciences
 1863 Battle 
            of Fort McAllister I : Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister,Georgia
 1863 Idaho Territory forms
 1865 Bureau 
            of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established to help destitute 
            free blacks
 1865 Opening of the 
            Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member 
            of the HSBC Group.
 1871 Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
 1871 Congress establishes the civil service system
 1875 1st recorded hockey game (Montréal)
 1875 Georges 
            Bizet's opera "Carmen" 
            premieres (Paris, France)
 1877 Rutherford 
            B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th President
 1878 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
 1879 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva 
            Ann Bennett Lockwood)
 1882 New 
            York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
 1883 Congress authorises the 1st steel vessels in US navy
 1885 American 
            Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
 1885 Congress passes 
            Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government)
 1885 US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
 1887 
            Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen 
            Keller
 1891 The 
            Penalty Spot Kick rule in Football is conceived, but does not 
            come into effect until the next season
 1892 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova PA
 1896 Signing of the Peace of Bucharest between Serbia and Bulgaria
 1900 US 
            Steel Corporation formed
 1900 Mining strike ends in Germany
 1903 British 
            admiralty announces plans to build naval base at Rosyth.
 1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
 1905 US Forest Service forms
 1906 Vuia 
            I aircraft built by Romanian 
            Traian Vuia tested in France
 1910 J.D. 
            Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses 
            so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
 1913 Ida 
            B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington 
            DC
 1915 National 
            Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
 1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
 1918 Russia withdraws from WWI, signs Treaty 
            of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and Austria
 1919 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle WA-Victoria 
            BC
 1919 Communist 
            Party in Germany announces a general strike
 1921 Toronto's Dr 
            Banting and Dr 
            Best announce discovery of insulin
 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume 
            and Rijeka
 1923 Time 
            magazine debuts
 1923 US Senate rejects membership in International 
            Court of Justice, The Hague
 1924 Germany signs treaty of friendship with Turkey
 1924 Sean 
            O'Casey's "Juno 
            and the Paycock" premieres in Dublin
 1924 The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph 
            Abdul 
            Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of 
            the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal 
            Atatürk
 1929 Revolt attempt of Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús 
            María Aguirre fails in Mexico.
 1931 "Star 
            Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem
 1932 January 
            28 Incident ends. Short war between the armies of the Republic 
            of China and the Empire of Japan
 1933 German Presidential candidate Ernst 
            Thälmann (KPD) arrested
 1933 US President 
            Herbert Hoover signs the Norris-LaGuardia 
            Act into law and opening the doors to increased unionization.
 1933 A powerful 
            earthquake and tsunami hit Honshu, Japan killing some 3,000
 1934 John 
            Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
 1934 Largest English football crowd outside of Wembley .84,569 watch 
            the game between Manchester United v Stoke City
 1938 Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia
 1940 Soviets begin attacks on Viipuri, 
            Finland's second largest city
 1940 In Sweden, a time bomb destroys the office of Norrskenflamman 
            newspaper of Swedish communists - 5 dead.
 1940 Artie 
            Shaw records "Frenesi" 
            on RCA 
            Victor label
 1942 Japanese aircraft make a surprising raid on the airfield and 
            harbour at Broome, Western Australia.
 1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro 
            Lancaster military plane
 1943 The 
            Bethnal Green disaster : Panicking crowd falls into London underground; 
            173 die
 1945 Churchill visits Montgomery's 
            headquarter
 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
 1945 Battle 
            of Manila ends
 1945 Battle 
            of Meiktila, Burma comes to an end with General Slim's troops 
            overwhelming the Japanese; the road to Rangoon is now cleared.
 1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
 1945 Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers.
 1945 A possible experimental atomic test blast occurs at the Nazis' 
            Ohrdruf military testing area
 1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
 1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
 1955 Elvis 
            Presley makes his 1st TV appearance
 1956 Indonesian government of Harahap 
            resigns
 1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
 1957 Corry 
            Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
 1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
 1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, is launched
 1959 British government arrests Hastings 
            Banda of Nyasaland to end emergency crisis
 1960 Elvis Presley returns home from Germany, after being away on 
            duty for 2 years. 1961 King Hassan 
            II's ascends to throne of Morocco
 1962 British 
            Antarctic Territory is formed
 1963 Senegal adopts constitution
 1963 US Government announces that its project of landing men on the 
            Moon will be followed by establishing a large manned laboratory orbiting 
            the Earth
 1965 Temptations' 
            "My Girl" reaches number 1
 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk 
            USSR
 1966 Kwame 
            Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinée
 1966 A British Overseas Airways Boeing 707 flies into a mountain wave 
            after the captain decides to give the passengers a close-up view of 
            Mt. Fuji. All 124 people aboard are killed.
 1966 Twister hits Jackson MS; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
 1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1968 Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague
 1969 In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan 
            Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. 
            Kennedy.
 1969 Apollo 
            9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
 1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
 1971 Winnie 
            Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
 1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall 
            Jackson are completed at Stone 
            Mountain GA
 1972 Mohawk 
            Airlines Flight 405 crashes in unexplained circumstances.
 1974 World's 
            worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris France (346 die)
 1975 Linda 
            McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
 1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
 1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
 1978 Ethiopia admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of 
            Cuban soldiers against Somalian troops in Ogaden.
 1978 Rhodesia attacks Zambia
 1978 Charles 
            Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
 1980 Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada
 1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
 1982 Opening of the Barbican 
            Arts Centre in London
 1985 "Moonlighting" 
            with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres
 1985 National 
            Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
 1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
 1989 Robert 
            McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra
 1991 Iraqi generals and General 
            Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
 1991 Latvia 
            and Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
 1991 Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney 
            King, captured on amateur video
 1991 Miguel 
            Trovoada installed as President of Sao Tomé e Principal
 1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
 1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
 1992 The nation of Bosnia 
            was established.
 1992 Gas explodes in coal mine at Incirharmani, 
            Kozlu, Zonguldak, Turkey, 263 die
 1992 President Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not 
            to
 1995 Camilla 
            Parker Bowles and husband divorce
 1996 Palestinian suicide bombers attack Jerusalem for second time 
            in a week, killing 18 people on board a bus in the centre of the city
 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.
 1998 Bill 
            Gates testifies at Senate 
            Judiciary Committee
 1999 Walter 
            LaGrand is executed in the gas chamber.
 2002 Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favour of their country 
            becoming a member of the United Nations.
 2004 Belgian brewer 
            Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 
            billion deal that formed 
            InBev, the world's largest brewer.
 2005 Mayerthorpe 
            Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police 
            constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, 
            Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident 
            for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
 2005 Steve 
            Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the 
            world solo without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 
            km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.
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        | Birthdates which 
            occurred on 3rd March : 1500 Reginald Pole 
            English Cardinal/"heretic" 1549 Henric Spieghel Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)
 1583 Edward Herbert of Cherbury English military/philosopher
 1589 Gisbertus Voetius [Gijsbert Voet], Dutch reformed theologist
 1606 Edmund Waller England, poet (Penshust)
 1652 Thomas Otway England, dramatist/poet (Venice Preserved)
 1705 Michael Schevenstuhl composer
 1747 Kasamir Pulaski US General (Revolutionary War)
 1756 William Godwin philosopher/political writer (Caleb Williams)
 1793 Charles Sealsfield writer (The Making of America)
 1809 Sophia Hawthorne writer
 1811 Vissarion Belinsky Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary 
            Review)
 1814 Charles Kensington Salaman composer
 1820 Eduard Douwes Dekker [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar)
 1823 Guyla Andrássy Sr premier of Hungary (1867-71)
 1828 Karl Collan composer
 1831 George M Pullman inventor (railway sleeping car)
 1838 George W Hill US astronomer (Moon orbit)
 1841 John Murray Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean)
 1845 Georg Cantor German mathematician (discovers transfinite numbers)
 1846 Desiderio Pietri Italian baker/marathon runner Dorando's father
 1847 Alexander Graham Bell Edinburgh Scotland, inventor (telephone)
 1849 Jacques Oppenheim Dutch lawyer
 1853 Vincent Van Gogh Dutch painter
 1857 Alfred Bruneau composer
 1865 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler composer
 1867 Gustav Strube composer
 1868 Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer
 1869 Henry J Wood English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms)
 1872 Wee Willie Keeler outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 
            1897
 1873 William Green president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52)
 1877 Garrett Morgan African-American inventor
 1880 Anne C Veth Dutch cartoonist/art critic
 1882 Floris H L Prims Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp
 1886 James Friskin composer
 1886 Reginald Owen Morris composer
 1889 Fritz Behrend composer
 1890 Edmund Lowe San Jose CA, actor (Black Sheep, Front Page Detective,Dillinger 
            )
 1890 Norman Bethune Canada, Doctor in Spain & China
 1891 Federico Moreno Torroba composer
 1891 Jan Donner Dutch minister of Justice/president High Council
 1892 Rui Coelho composer
 1893 Beatrice Wood potter/artist/author
 1893 Bill Nestell California, actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier)
 1893 Karel Lotsy Dutch insurance director/Olympics-chief d'équipe
 1895 Alexander Nicholas Voormolen Dutch composer
 1895 General Matthew Ridgeway US, military leader (WWII/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO)
 1895 Juanita Hansen Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love)
 1895 Ragnar Frisch Norway, economist (1st Nobel prize in economy-1969)
 1895 Robert Gordon KS, actor (Loveless)
 1897 Jose Moreno Gans composer
 1899 Alfred M Gruenther US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56)
 1899 Juri Olescha writer
 19-- Darnell Williams London, actor (All My Children)
 19-- Denise Pence actress (Guiding Light)
 19-- Judy Pioli Brooklyn NY, actress (Moose-Star of the Family)
 19-- Kevin Steele rocker (Roxx Gang-Things You Never Done Before)
 19-- Larry Pine Tucson AZ, actor (Roger-One Life to Live)
 19-- Lonnie Vencent rocker (Bulletboys-For the Love of Money)
 1900 Edna Best Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo)
 1902 Ruby Dandridge Memphis TN, actress (Father of the Bride)
 1903 Gilbert Adrian [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer
 1903 Rabbe A Enckell Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen)
 1906 Artur Lundkvist Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
 1906 Donald Novis Hastings England, actor (Monte Carlo)
 1906 Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar journalist/diplomat
 1907 Aar van de Werfhorst [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer
 1907 Canada Lee New York NY, actor (Lost Boundaries)
 1907 Joy Finzi [Joyce A Black], British painter
 1908 Riccardo Nielsen composer
 1909 Harry Hemsley billionaire New York landlord
 1909 Jay Morris Arena inventor/pediatrician
 1909 Kenton Kilmer poet/translator
 1911 Francesco Siciliani opera composer
 1911 Jean Harlow [Harlean Carpentier] Kansas City MO, 30s' sex goddess 
            (Dinner at 8)
 1912 Joe Stydahar NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
 1913 Margaret Bonds US pianist/composer/arranger
 1913 Roger Caillois French writer (Les Jeux et les Hommes)
 1914 Martin Ritt actor/director (Slugger's Wife, End of the Game)
 1915 George Brian Snape businessman/rugby league entrepreneur
 1917 Bert van Aerschot Flemish writer (Elevator, Women)
 1918 Arnold Newman photographer (Faces USA)
 1918 Arthur Kornberg US biochemist (Nobel 1959)
 1918 Frank Wigglesworth composer
 1920 James Doohan Vancouver British Columbia, actor (Montgomery Scott-Star 
            Trek)
 1920 Julius Boros golfer (PGA Champion 1968, US Open 1952, 63)
 1920 Julius Boros golfer (US Open 1952,63)
 1920 Martin Ritt director (The Front, Nuts)
 1921 Allen Ginsberg beat generation poet (1969 Arts & Letters 
            Award)
 1921 Diana Barrymore New York NY, actress (Nightmare, Lady Courageous, 
            Fired Wife)
 1921 Junior Parker Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter (Mystery Train)
 1922 Kazimierz Serocki composer
 1925 Enzo Stuarti Italy, singer (Yesterday)
 1925 Richard Vernon Reading Berkshire England, actor (Servant, Gandhi, 
            Hard Days Night)
 1926 James Ingram Merrill US poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant)
 1927 [Herman] Junior Parker rocker (Driving Wheel, In the Dark)
 1927 Charles O Whitley (Representative-Democrat-NC, 1977- )
 1927 Frank Singleton librarian
 1927 John McLaughlin commentator (McLaughlin Report)
 1928 Dave Dudley singer (Six Days on the Road)
 1928 Don Gibson singer/writer (I can't Stop Loving You, Oh Lonesome 
            Me)
 1928 G Pausewang writer
 1928 Joe Conley Buffalo NY, actor (Ike-The Waltons)
 1929 Nicos Mamangakis composer
 1931 Henk Knol Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
 1931 Piet [van] Bambergen Dutch cabaretier (Mounties, Sherlock Jones)
 1932 Mara Corday Santa Monica CA, playmate (October 1958)
 1933 Lee Radziwell Ross New York NY, princess (Jackie O's sister)
 1933 Marco Antonio Muñiz Mexico, Spanish singer (Murmullos)
 1933 Princess Lee Radziwell Ross New York NY (Jackie O's sister)
 1934 Gia Scala Italy, actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water)
 1935 Zhelyu Zhelev president of Bulgaria (1990- )
 1936 Jim Clark Formula 1 racer (1963 Champion)
 1938 Douglas Leedy composer
 1938 Lew De Witt singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
 1938 Willie Chambers guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
 1939 Hans Pieter Verhagen poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole)
 1939 M L Jaisimha cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties)
 1942 Mike Pender Liverpool, vocalist/guitarist (Searchers-Needles 
            & Pins)
 1942 Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29/31, 
            T-4)
 1943 Roger Swaybill actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point)
 1944 Janice Garfat rocker (Dr Hook)
 1945 Farooq Hamid cricketer (1-107 in Test, Pakistan vs Australia 
            1964)
 1945 Hattie Winston Greenville MS, actress (Nurse, Electric Company)
 1946 James C Adamson Warsaw NY, Lieutenant Colonel USA/astronaut (STS 
            28, STS 43)
 1947 Dave Mount Carshalton Surrey England, rocker (Mud)
 1948 Byron MacGregor newscaster
 1948 Reed Hundt FCC chairman
 1949 Bonnie J Dunbar Sunnyside WA, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 
            71, 89)
 1949 James S Voss Cordova AL, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69)
 1950 Re Styles rock vocalist (Tubes)
 1950 Tim Kazurinsky Johnstown PA, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Police 
            Academy 2, 3, 4)
 1951 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov Russian cosmonaut
 1952 Robyn Hitchcock rocker (Moss Elixir)
 1953 Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin Russia, cosmonaut
 1953 Dave Amato rocker (REO Speedwagon-Can't Fight this Feeling)
 1954 Keith Carlton Fergus Temple TX, PGA golfer (1995 Honda Classic-8th)
 1954 Merrick [Chris Hughes] rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
 1956 Jim Barton Lincoln NE, soling yachter (Olympics-bronze-1996)
 1956 John F Reid cricketer (New Zealand batsman of 70's/80's)
 1956 Miguel Bosé Panamá, Spanish actor (Lo Mejor del 
            Año)
 1958 Bob Bradley Montclair NJ, soccer coach (Olympics-gold-96)
 1958 Miranda Richardson Southport England, actress (Damage, Crying 
            Game)
 1959 Romeo Zondervan Dutch soccer player (NAC)
 1961 Mary Page Keller actress (Duet, Scared Stiff, Baby Talk)
 1962 Herschel Walker WFL/NFL running back (New Jersey Generals, Dallas 
            Cowboys)
 1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee East St Louis IL, heptathlete (Olympics-gold-88, 
            92)
 1963 Elizabeth Chavez Santa Monica CA, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-91)
 1963 Jacqueline Sheen Dallas TX, playmate (July, 1990)
 1963 Kelly Miller Detroit MI, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
 1964 Arturo Huerta Mexico, Canadian walker (Olympics-96)
 1964 Atif Rauf cricketer (Pakistani Test batsman vs New Zealand 1994)
 1964 Laura Martinez-Herring Sinaloa Mexico, Miss USA-1985 (Texas)/(Carla-General 
            Hospital)
 1964 Lisa Ann Poggi Grand Rapids MI, actress (Jolie-Loving)
 1965 A J Sager Columbus OH, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
 1966 Anthony Terrell Smith Los Angeles CA, rocker (Tone Loc-Let's 
            Do It)
 1966 Claus Boekweg Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, FC Zwolle)
 1966 Dmitri Volkov Russian swimmer (world record)
 1966 Ellen Minzner Lawrence MA, rower (Olympics-96)
 1966 Gary Parker WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
 1966 Hope Marie Carlton Riverhead NY, playmate (July, 1985)
 1966 Noelle Daghe Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-21st)
 1966 Tone-Loc [Anthony Terrell Smith], Los Angeles CA, rocker (Let's 
            Do It)
 1966 Wendy Fletcher Boston MA, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1993)
 1967 Alexander Volkov Russia, tennis star
 1967 Calvin Williams NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
 1967 Elizabeth Cheshire Burbank CA, actress (Jill-Sunshine)
 1968 Brian Leetch Corpus Christi TX, NHL defenseman (Team USA, New 
            York Rangers)
 1968 Diann Roffe-Steinrotter Warsaw NY, alpine skier (Olympics-gold/silver-92)
 1968 Scott Radinsky Simi Valley CA, pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers)
 1969 Ronald Humphrey NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
 1970 Donovan Bergstrom US 3K steeplechase runner
 1970 Inzamam-ul-Haq cricketer (dashing Pakistani batsman)
 1970 Kristine Radford Sydney Australia, tennis star (1996 ITF/Lyneham)
 1970 Rick Mirer NFL QB (Seattle Seahawks)
 1970 Scott Keswick Nevada, gymnast (Coca-Cola-1st-94, Olympics-96)
 1970 Shawn Marie Brogan Miss Iowa-USA (1997)
 1971 Terryl Ulmer CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
 1972 Christian Oliver actor (Baby Sitters Club, Brian-Saved by the 
            Bell)
 1972 Martin Prochazka Slany Czechoslovakia, NHL forward (Toronto, 
            Czechoslovakia Olympics-Gold-98)
 1973 Cory Raymer NFL center (Washington Redskins)
 1973 James Dexter tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
 1973 Jim Mills tackle (San Diego Chargers)
 1973 Tisha Venturini Modesto CA, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
 1973 Victoria Nika Zdrok Kiev Ukraine, playmate (October 1994)
 1973 Winslow Oliver running back (Carolina Panthers)
 1974 Jared Rushton actor (Big, Honey I Shrank the Kids)
 1975 Albert Fields Gary IN, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
 1975 David Faustino California, actor (I Had 3 Wifes, Bud-Married 
            With Children)
 1977 Bas Zuiderent cricketer (Holland all-rounder 1996 World Cup)
 1977 Ronan Keating Bayside Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
 1978 Carol Aquino Miss Guatemala-Universe (1997)
 1978 Douglas Osmond Provo UT, vocalist (Osmonds 2ndG)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deaths which occurred 
            on March 3rd:
 0561 Pelagius I Italian Pope (547-51, 556-61), dies
 1191 Saladin [Salah ad-Din]) Yusuf sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 
            52
 1459 Ausias March Catalan poet, dies
 1554 Johan Frederik de Greatmoedige ruler of Saxon (1532-47), dies 
            at 50
 1580 Jacob Hillebrand Dutch mayor of Groningen, dies
 1635 Philips de l'Espinoy historian/mayor of Ghent, dies
 1703 Robert Hooke scientific genius, dies in London
 1706 Johann Pachelbel organist/composer (Sterbens-Gedancken), dies 
            at 52
 1707 Aurangzeb Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88
 1717 Pierre Allix French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
 1766 Gregor Joseph Werner composer, dies at 73
 1768 Nicola Antonio Porpora composer, dies at 81
 1792 Robert Adam Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies 
            at 63
 1800 Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi composer, dies at 64
 1822 Franz Adam Veichtner composer, dies at 81
 1824 Giovanni Battista Viotti Italian violist/composer, dies at 70
 1848 Heinrich Olivier German painter, dies
 1858 József Bajza Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54
 1864 Ulric Dahlgren Union Colonel, dies in battle at 21
 1889 Edward Sydney Smith composer, dies at 49
 1902 Isaac D France van de Putte Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79
 1921 Petrus Cuypers architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93
 1926 Cyril Metodej Hrazdira composer, dies at 58
 1928 Jan [Jean] T Toorop Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 
            69
 1932 Eugene Francis Charles D'albert composer, dies at 67
 1934 Norman Houstoun O'Neill composer, dies at 58
 1935 Neville Knox cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), 
            dies
 1938 Arthur Koestler writer, dies at 32
 1941 Constant W L Scheurleer archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies 
            at 59
 1941 Ernst Cahn owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed
 1942 Amedeo Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43
 1943 George Thomson cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for England 1909-10), 
            dies
 1945 Arthur Vanderpoorten Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 
            61
 1945 Koos Speenhoff Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75
 1948 Antonin Artaud writer, dies at 51
 1956 Willem H Keesom Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79
 1959 Lou Costello comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
 1960 Sammy White actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65
 1965 Carlo Gatti composer, dies at 88
 1966 Alice Pearce comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52
 1966 William Frawley actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89
 1967 Georges Lonque composer, dies at 66
 1974 Barbara Ruick actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43
 1974 Frank Wilcox actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 66
 1975 László Németh Hungarian physician/author 
            (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73
 1976 Alfred Sendrey composer, dies at 92
 1977 Percy Marmont actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93
 1982 Georges Perec French writer, dies at 45
 1983 Arthur Koestler Hungarian/British writer (Dialogue With Death), 
            dies at 77
 1985 Sarah Blanding 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies 
            at 86
 1987 Danny Kaye comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74
 1988 Lois Wilson actress (Crash, Deluge, Bright Eyes), dies
 1988 Sewall Wright US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98
 1990 Frans Goedhart Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
 1990 Gerard Blitz Belgian swimmer/founder (Club Méd), dies 
            at 88
 1991 Arthur Murray dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia
 1991 Clara Eggink [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies 
            at 84
 1992 Robert Beatty actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82
 1992 Sandy Dennis actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer 
            at 54
 1992 Ted Liss actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72
 1993 Albert Sabin physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86
 1993 Carlos Montoya flamenco guitarist, dies at 89
 1993 Cyril Collard French composer/director/actor (A Nos Amours), 
            dies at 35
 1994 Anita Morris actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
 1994 Bob Crisp cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 
            37 35), dies
 1994 Karel Kryl folk singer, dies at 49
 1995 Gilbert Gadoffre French scholar, dies at 84
 1995 Howard Hunter US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87
 1995 Howard Yanks founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies 
            at 65
 1995 Pierre Tisseyre publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 
            85
 1995 Shiv Verma soldier, dies at 85
 1996 David Bowman trade unionist, dies at 82
 1996 John Joseph Krol cardinal, dies at 95
 1996 Leo Malet writer, dies at 86
 1996 Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord journalist, dies at 76
 1996 Lyle Talbot [Henderson], actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space), dies 
            at 76
 1996 Marguerite Duras writer, dies at 81
 1996 Meyer Schapiro art historian, dies at 91
 1997 Stanislav Shatalin Russian economist (500 Days), dies
 
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