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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 3
- 100th: 1924 - German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Gia Scala in Italy; actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water).
- 90th: 1934 - John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Janice Garfat; rocker (Dr Hook).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Keith Carlton Fergus in Temple, Texas, USA; PGA golfer (1995 Honda Classic-8th).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Merrick [Chris Hughes]; rock drummer (Adam and The Ants).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Arturo Huerta in Mexico; Canadian walker (Olympics-1996).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Atif Rauf; cricket player (Pakistani Test batsman versus New Zealand 1994).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Laura Martinez-Herring in Sinaloa, Mexico; Miss USA-1985 (Texas) / actress (Carla - General Hospital).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Lisa Ann Poggi in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; actress (Jolie - Loving).
- 50th: 1974 - Barbara Ruick, actress/singer (Jerry Colonna Show, Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at age 43.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Jared Rushton, actor (Big, Honey I Shrank the Kids).
- 50th: 1974 - Despite Billy Harris' hat trick New York Islanders lose 3-4.
- 50th: 1974 - Frank Wilcox, actor (John - Beverly Hillbillies), dies at age 66.
- 50th: 1974 - George Foreman knocks out Ken Norton.
- 50th: 1974 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic.
- 50th: 1974 - World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris, France (346 die).
- 50th: 1974 - PBS TV debuts the TV series Nova.
- 40th: 1984 - Peter Ueberroth is elected baseball commissioner (Effective October 1).
- 40th: 1984 - New York Islanders score their most goals (11) versus Toronto Maple Leafs (6).
- 30th: 1994 - Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at age 50.
- 30th: 1994 - Bob Crisp, cricket player (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies.
- 25th: 1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones begin their attempt to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon without stopping.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Lee Philips at age 72 of progressive supranuclear palsy; actor (The Adventures of Ellery Queen TV show (1959)), director (My World TV show, Welcome to It TV show, The Governor and JJ TV show, Gidget TV show, The Waltons TV show, The Practice TV show, Diagnosis Murder TV show).
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904).
- 15th: 2009 - The Bank of Canada reduces the benchmark lending rate from 1 to 0.5 percent.
- 15th: 2009 - Gunmen attack a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, Pakistan, killing eight people and injuring several others.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Sydney Chaplin, age 82, of a stroke, in Rancho Mirage, California. Chaplin was a stage actor (Bells are Ringing, Funny Girl, Subways are for Sleeping).
- 5th: 2019 - An unmanned demonstration flight of the new crew-capable version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, intended to carry American astronauts into space, achieves successful autonomous docking with the International Space Station.
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