Also on March 3
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: วันมาฆบูชา (TH)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Jewish: Purim פורים holiday
- Chinese: Lantern Festival major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2017 — Nintendo releases the hybrid video game console Nintendo Switch worldwide to critical acclaim. ↗
- 2013 — A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area. ↗
- 2005 — James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then... ↗
- 2005 — Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling. ↗
- 2005 — Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1998 — Jayson Tatum, American college basketball player
- 1997 — Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer
- 1994 — Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer and actress
- 1993 — Gabriela Cé, Brazilian tennis player
- 1993 — Nicole Gibbs, American tennis player