| Date | Text | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 03 Mar 1925 | Enzo Stuarti: Italy -- Singer (Yesterday) | |||
| 03 Mar 1925 | Richard Vernon: England, United Kingdom -- Actor (Servant, Gandhi, Hard Days Night) | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 03 Mar 1950 | Re Styles: Rock vocalist (Tubes) | |||
| 03 Mar 1950 | Tim Kazurinsky: Johnstown, Pennsylvania -- Comedian (SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4) | |||
| 03 Mar 1950 | 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name | |||
| 03 Mar 1950 | Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and screenwriter | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 03 Mar 1975 | "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances | |||
| 03 Mar 1975 | Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana | |||
| 03 Mar 1975 | Aleksei Abdulkhalikov, Russian footballer | |||
| 03 Mar 1975 | Aleksandr Abdulkhalikov, Russian footballer | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 03 Mar 2000 | Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1904) | |||
| 03 Mar 2000 | Former Bay City Roller, Derek Longmuir was released on bail on charges of downloading child pornographic images from the internet and keeping indecent videos in his home. | |||
| 03 Mar 2000 | Tom Jones won the Best male artist at this year's Brit Awards. Other winners included Travis for Best band and Best album 'The Man Who.' Best single went to Robbie Williams for 'She's The One', Five won Best pop act, TLC won Best International group, Beck won Best International Male, Macy Gray won Best newcomer and Outstanding Contribution went to The Spice Girls. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 03 Mar 2005 | Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur. | |||
| 03 Mar 2005 | Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling. | |||
| 03 Mar 2005 | Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion. | |||
| 03 Mar 2005 | Max Fisher, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928) | |||
| 03 Mar 2005 | 50 Cent released The Massacre, the follow-up to his 6x platinum debut 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'. The album sold over 1 million copies in its first week, going 4x platinum in two months. The success of the album gave 50 Cent five top-five singles in 2005. | |||
| 03 Mar 2005 |
Solo non-stop global flight In 2005, the first solo non-stop and fastest flight around the world without refueling ended as Steve Fossett landed at the Salina Municipal Airport, Kansas. He left there 67 hours earlier on 28 Feb 2005, in The GlobalFlyer, a single-engine, single-use experimental jet plane. The first non-stop two-person flight around the world, was made in 1986 by Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan in nine days, covering 26,366 miles without refueling. The GlobalFlyer, purpose-built of light composites, carried fuel comprising 86 percent of its weight at take-off in 13 tanks in its long wings and boom tanks. The chief designer, Jon Karkow, had spent five years planning the project, sponsored by Sir Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways. |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 03 Mar 2010 | Michael Foot, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Employment (b. 1913) | |||
| 03 Mar 2010 | Keith Alexander, English footballer and manager (b. 1956) | |||
| 03 Mar 2010 | A woman claiming to be the wife of Sean 'P Diddy' Combs was freed on $5,000 (£3,326) bail after being arrested near the rappers home on Long Island, New York. Cemelia Green claimed to be married to the rapper and producer who was said to be worth around $350m (£233m). There was no official comment from Combs, who was unmarried. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 03 Mar 2015 | Slovenia legalizes same-sex marriage. | |||
| 03 Mar 2015 | John Mockler, American politician (b. 1941) | |||
| 03 Mar 2015 | M. Stanton Evans, American journalist and author (b. 1934) | |||
| 03 Mar 2015 | Ernest Braun, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1925) | |||
| 03 Mar 2015 | Lynn Borden, American model and actress (b. 1937) | |||
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