The 3rd o Mairch is the 62nt day o the year (63rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 303 days ti come.

• 1284 – Statute o Rhuddlan is enactit. Wales is incorporatit intae the Kinrick o Ingland.
• 1836 - The Republic o Texas declares unthirldom frae Mexico.
• 1845 - Florida becomes the 27t state o the Unitit States.
• 1861 - Alexander II o Roushie abandons serfdom.
• 1878 - Bulgarie gains unthirldom frae the Ottoman Empire.
• 1923 - TIME magazine, in the Unitit States, is published for the first time.
• 1938 - Ile is diskivered in Saudi Arabie.
• 1961 - Coronation o Hassan II o Morocco.
• 1985 - In the Unitit Kinrick, the Naitional Union o Mineworkers ends its year-long strike.
• 1985 - A magnitude 8.3 yirdquauk strikes central Chile.
• 1991 - In referendums, Latvie an Estonie support unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
• 1992 - Kyrgyzstan adopts its current Banner.
• 1997 - The Sky Touer in Auckland, New Zealand, opens.
• 2002 - Swisserland decides tae jyn the Unitit Naitions in a naitional referendum.
• 2002 - A yirdquauk in the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan, kills 166 fowk.
• 2009 - The Sri Lanka cricket team is attackit in Pakistan.
• 2009 - Cologne's muneecipal airchive biggin collapses.
• 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Argentinae, Chile, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein an Ukraine record thair first COVID-19 cases.

• 1756 - William Godwin, Inglis philosopher an novelist (d. 1836)
• 1845 - Georg Cantor, German mathemateecian (d. 1918)
• 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scots inventor (d. 1922)
• 1895 - Ragnar Frisch, Norse economist (d. 1973)
• 1911 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1920 - James Doohan, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Willie Thornton, Scots fitbawer (d. 1991)
• 1924 - Lys Assia, Swiss sangster (d. 2018)
• 1930 - Ion Iliescu, umwhile Preses o Romanie
• 1935 - Zhelyu Zhelev, Preses o Bulgarie (d. 2015)
• 1945 - George Miller, Australian film director
• 1953 - Zico, Brazilian fitbawer
• 1956 - Tony Fitzpatrick, Scots fitbawer
• 1958 - Miranda Richardson, Inglis actress
• 1963 – Conor Lenihan, Republic o Ireland politeecian
• 1966 - Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor an film
• 1966 - Mikhail Mishustin, Roushie economist an politeecian, Prime meenister o Roushie
• 1968 - Professor Brian Cox, Inglis pheesicist an umwhile muisicker
• 1973 - Xavier Bettel, Prime meenister o Luxembourg
• 1977 - Ronan Keating, Erse sangster
• 1979 - Scott MacLeod, Scots rugby union player
• 1982 - Jessica Biel, American actress
• 1989 - Ross Forbes, Scots fitbawer
• 1997 - Camila Cabello, Cuban-American sangster

• 1605 - Pape Clement VIII (b. 1536)
• 1611 - William Douglas, 10t Yerl o Angus, Scots nobleman (b. 1552)
• 1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German componer (b. 1653)
• 1792 - Robert Adam, Scots airchitect an interior an furnitur designer (b. 1728)
• 1983 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (b. 1907)
• 1996 - Marguerite Duras, French novelist, playwricht, screenwriter, essayist an filmmaker (b. 1914)
• 2010 - Michael Foot, Inglis politeecian (b. 1913)
• 2014 - William R. Pogue, American astronaut (b. 1930)
• 2017 - Raymond Kopa, French fitbawer (b. 1931)
• 2018 - David Ogden Stiers, American actor (b. 1942)

• The 3rd o Mairch is the feast day o the follaein saunts:

St. Katharine Drexel

St. Cunegundes

St. Anselm of Nonantola

St. Arthelais

St. Winwaloc

St. Titian

St. Sacer

Bl. Mary Angela Truszkowska

St. Calupan

St. Camilla

St. Cele-Christ

St. Cleonicus

St. Foila

St. Felix

St. Hemiterius an Cheledonius

St. Lamalisse

St. Non

St. Marinus & Asterius

• Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day) - Japan
• Independence Day (Bulgarie)

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