Daily Calendar for March 3rd, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1810s

• 1812: First U.S. foreign aid bill authorized $50,000 for relief of victims of an earthquake in Venezuela

1820s

• 1820: Missouri Compromise was passed by U.S. Congress, admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state

1830s

• Born 1831: George Mortimer Pullman (industrialist; designed luxury railroad cars)

1840s

• 1845: Florida admitted to the Union as the 27th state

• Born 1847: Alexander Graham Bell (inventor)

1860s

• 1861: Serfs were emancipated in Russia

• 1863: National Academy of Sciences signed into existence by Abraham Lincoln to advise the government on scientific and technical issues

1870s

• 1875: First organized ice hockey match, Montreal, Canada

• 1875: Carmen, by Georges Bizet, premiered in Paris

• 1879: Belva Ann Bennet Lockwood became first woman to try a case before the U.S. Supreme Court

1880s

• 1887: Anne Sullivan began teaching deaf/blind Helen Keller

1900s

• 1901: The U.S. Steel Corp. was formed

• 1903: Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, began taking prisoners' fingerprints

1910s

• Born 1911: Jean Harlow (actress)

• 1915: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA, was founded

• Born 1918: Arnold Newman (photographer)

• 1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed by Russia and the Central Powers

• 1919: First international airmail delivery was made from Vancouver, BC, to Seattle, WA

1920s

• Born 1920: James Montgomery Doohan (actor, linguist)

1930s

• 1931: The Star-Spangled Banner was officially designated U.S. national anthem

• 1937: First annual meeting of General Wildlife Federation (later, NWF), 1937.

1940s

• Born 1940: Perry Ellis (fashion designer)

1950s

• 1952: Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth, with autonomy in internal affairs

• 1953: First fatal jetliner accident occured when a Canadian plane crashed in Karachi, Pakistan

• Born 1958: Miranda Richardson (actress)

• Died 1959: Lou Costello (actor & comedian)

• 1959: Pioneer 4, first U.S. spacecraft to orbit Sun, launched

1960s

• Born 1962: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (heptathlon athlete; Olympic gold medalist)

• Born 1962: Herschel Walker (football player)

• 1969: Apollo 9 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy

1980s

• 1980: Pierre Trudeau replaced Joe Clark as prime minister of Canada

• Born 1982: Jessica Biel (actress)

• Died 1987: Danny Kaye (actor)

1990s

• Died 1991: Arthur Murray (dance teacher)

• Died 1998: Fred Friendly (documentary producer)

2000s

• Died 2003: Hank Ballard (singer and songwriter who wrote and recorded The Twist in 1958 which later was recorded by Chubby Checker)

• 2005: Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world solo without stopping or refueling, safely touching down in his custom-built plane 67 hours after taking off

2010s

• Died 2011: James Ludlow Elliot (astronomer who discovered the rings of Uranus)

• 2012: A 50-pound 6-ounce smallmouth buffalo fish was caught in Lake Fork, Texas