Quote of the day: What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived; it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. — Nelson Mandela
Did you know? Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute.
On this day in history, March 3
- 1627: Dutch privateer Piet Heyn attacks and conquers 22 Portuguese ships in Bay of Salvador, Brazil.
- 1859: The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest in US history, ends.
- 1910: Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller Jr announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote his time to philanthropy.
- 1917: German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann admits that the telegram bearing his name is genuine, which results in a US declaration of war on Germany.
- 1919: Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr is appointed principal of the South African School of Mines and Technology, in Johannesburg, which goes on to become the University of the Witwatersrand.
- 1922: Eight Whites are killed in Brakpan in fights between government forces and striking miners during the Rand Revolt.
- 1923: TIME magazine is first published.
- 1932: Miriam Makeba, the first internationally famous African artist, is born in Johannesburg.
- 1934: US gangster John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol.
- 1938: Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 1939: Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike over autocratic rule in British India.
- 1943: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at the same time.
- 1945: The RAF accidentally bombs The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
- 1971: The SABC lifts its ban on The Beatles.
- 1991: LA police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King. The beating is captured on amateur video and leads to riots when the white police officers are acquitted.
- 2005: Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an aeroplane around the world solo without any stops or refuelling.
- 2013: A 2-year-old US girl is the first child born with HIV to be cured.
- 2019: South African music star Mampintsha is shown hitting girlfriend Babes Wodumo on Instagram Live and later arrested for assault.
- 2022: Russian forces seize the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe.
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