History for March 3

History for March 3 - On-This-Day.com
Alexander Graham Bell 1847, Matthew Ridgway 1895, Jean Harlow 1911


Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1962 - Olympic track and field gold medalist, David Faustino 1974 - Actor ("Married With Children"), Jessica Biel 1982 - Actress ("7th Heaven")

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."


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