3 Mairch

The **3rd o Mairch** is the 62nt day o the year (63rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 303 days ti come.

## Events

* 1284 – Statute o Rhuddlan is enactit. Wales is incorporatit intae the Kinrick o Ingland.
* 1836 - The Republic o Texas declares unthirldom frae Mexico.
* 1845 - Florida becomes the 27t state o the Unitit States.
* 1861 - Alexander II o Roushie abandons serfdom.
* 1878 - Bulgarie gains unthirldom frae the Ottoman Empire.
* 1923 - TIME magazine, in the Unitit States, is published for the first time.
* 1938 - Ile is diskivered in Saudi Arabie.
* 1961 - Coronation o Hassan II o Morocco.
* 1985 - In the Unitit Kinrick, the Naitional Union o Mineworkers ends its year-long strike.
* 1985 - A magnitude 8.3 yirdquauk strikes central Chile.
* 1991 - In referendums, Latvie an Estonie support unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
* 1992 - Kyrgyzstan adopts its current Banner.
* 1997 - The Sky Touer in Auckland, New Zealand, opens.
* 2002 - Swisserland decides tae jyn the Unitit Naitions in a naitional referendum.
* 2002 - A yirdquauk in the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan, kills 166 fowk.
* 2009 - The Sri Lanka cricket team is attackit in Pakistan.
* 2009 - Cologne's muneecipal airchive biggin collapses.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Argentinae, Chile, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein an Ukraine record thair first COVID-19 cases.

## Births

* 1756 - William Godwin, Inglis philosopher an novelist (d. 1836)
* 1845 - Georg Cantor, German mathemateecian (d. 1918)
* 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scots inventor (d. 1922)
* 1895 - Ragnar Frisch, Norse economist (d. 1973)
* 1911 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
* 1920 - James Doohan, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)
* 1920 - Willie Thornton, Scots fitbawer (d. 1991)
* 1924 - Lys Assia, Swiss sangster (d. 2018)
* 1930 - Ion Iliescu, umwhile Preses o Romanie
* 1935 - Zhelyu Zhelev, Preses o Bulgarie (d. 2015)
* 1945 - George Miller, Australian film director
* 1953 - Zico, Brazilian fitbawer
* 1956 - Tony Fitzpatrick, Scots fitbawer
* 1958 - Miranda Richardson, Inglis actress
* 1963 – Conor Lenihan, Republic o Ireland politeecian
* 1966 - Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor an film
* 1966 - Mikhail Mishustin, Roushie economist an politeecian, Prime meenister o Roushie
* 1968 - Professor Brian Cox, Inglis pheesicist an umwhile muisicker
* 1973 - Xavier Bettel, Prime meenister o Luxembourg
* 1977 - Ronan Keating, Erse sangster
* 1979 - Scott MacLeod, Scots rugby union player
* 1982 - Jessica Biel, American actress
* 1989 - Ross Forbes, Scots fitbawer
* 1997 - Camila Cabello, Cuban-American sangster

## Daiths
* 1605 - Pape Clement VIII (b. 1536)
* 1611 - William Douglas, 10t Yerl o Angus, Scots nobleman (b. 1552)
* 1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German componer (b. 1653)
* 1792 - Robert Adam, Scots airchitect an interior an furnitur designer (b. 1728)
* 1983 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (b. 1907)
* 1996 - Marguerite Duras, French novelist, playwricht, screenwriter, essayist an filmmaker (b. 1914)
* 2010 - Michael Foot, Inglis politeecian (b. 1913) 
* 2014 - William R. Pogue, American astronaut (b. 1930)
* 2017 - Raymond Kopa, French fitbawer (b. 1931)
* 2018 - David Ogden Stiers, American actor (b. 1942)

## Halidays
* The 3rd o Mairch is the feast day o the follaein saunts:

:St. Katharine Drexel
:St. Cunegundes
:St. Anselm of Nonantola
:St. Arthelais
:St. Winwaloc
:St. Titian
:St. Sacer
:Bl. Mary Angela Truszkowska 
:St. Calupan
:St. Camilla
:St. Cele-Christ
:St. Cleonicus
:St. Foila
:St. Felix
:St. Hemiterius an Cheledonius
:St. Lamalisse
:St. Non
:St. Marinus & Asterius
* Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day) - Japan
* Independence Day (Bulgarie)