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Find Out What Happened In History: March 3
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You ain't nothing but a hound dog! Today in history Elvis made his very first television appearance. Check out what other exciting events happened on March 3 the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). There are 303 days remaining so what are you going to do with your year?
| | 1585 - The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza |
| | 1791 - The United States Mint is created by the U.S. Congress. Money, Money, Money! |
| | 1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state. You should plan a trip to the Sunshine State! |
| | 1849 - The United States Department of the Interior is established. |
| | 1873 - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. |
| | 1875 - The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, as recorded in The Montreal Gazette. |
| | 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5). |
| | 1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created. |
| | 1885 - The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State. |
| | 1891 - The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season |
| | 1923 - TIME magazine is published for the first time. |
| | 1931 - The United States officially adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as its national anthem. |
| | 1933 - Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated. |
| | 1938 - Glenn Cunningham breaks the world record for the indoor mile run by completing the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds. |
| | 1938 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. |
| | 1955 - Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time. Oh watch those hips! |
| | 1959 - The San Francisco Giants officially name their new stadium Candlestick Park. |
| | 1969 - In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. |
| | 1976 - Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977. |
| | 1985 - Censorship: Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Huggies Diapers, claiming that the television ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn." I wonder what they would say about the commercials from the super bowl this year. |
| | 1991 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. |
| | 1995 - In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends. |
| | 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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