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March 3
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Saturday November 22, 2008
March 3 in history:
- 2005: Steve Fossett completed the first solo, nonstop airplane flight around the globe.
- 1991: Rodney King was arrested for speeding by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department and given a severe beating that a passer-by recorded on videotape.
- 1931: "The Star-Spangled Banner" became the national anthem under a law signed by President Herbert Hoover.
- 1918: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russian participation in World War I, was signed by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the new Soviet government of Russia.
- 1875: Georges Bizet's opera Carmen was first performed, at the Paris Opéra-Comique.
- 1865: Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau, at the end of the U.S. Civil War, to aid refugees and ex-slaves.
- 1859: The largest recorded auction of slaves (more than 400 individuals) took place on the Georgia plantation of Pierce Butler, whose wife, the English actress Fanny Kemble, later wrote a harrowing account of slavery.
- 1849: The Territory of Minnesota was created; its western limits encompassed most of present-day North Dakota.
- 1845: Florida entered the United States as a slave state.
