History for March 3

History for March 3 - On-This-Day.com:
Alexander Graham Bell 1847, Rupert Brooke 1887, Matthew Ridgway 1895


Jean Harlow 1911, James Doohan 1920, Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1962 - Olympic track and field gold medalist


1903 - In St. Louis, MO, Barney Gilmore was arrested for spitting.


1915 - The motion picture "Birth of a Nation" debuted in New York City.


1923 - The first issue of Time magazine was published.


1931 - The "Star Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key, was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was originally a poem known as "Defense of Fort McHenry."


1939 - In Bombay, Ghandi began a fast to protest the state's autocratic rule.


1952 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld New York's Feinberg Law that banned Communist teachers in the U.S.


1991 - Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers. The scene was captured on amateur video. (California)


1995 - A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia ended. Several gunmen were killed by U.S. Marines in Mogadishu while overseeing the pull out of peacekeepers.