March 3

Events

1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1849 - The United States Department of the Interior is established.
1857 - Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1878 - Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire
1904 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).
1918 - Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
1923 - The first issue of Time is published
1938 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1942 - World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
1945 - NS Germany conducts a successful experimental nuclear explosion four months before the American nuclear test at the Trinity site in New Mexico.
1961 - Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
1992 - The nation of Bosnia was established.