An amateur videographer captured Los Angeles police beating motorist Rodney King
MajorGeorge Holliday filmed the incident from his apartment balcony, creating one of the first viral videos before the internet age. The footage sparked na...
March 3 in History
Significant events that happened on this day.
Historical Events
1991
1991
The first web browser became publicly available when Tim Berners-Lee released files for WorldWideWeb
MajorBerners-Lee posted the browser code to the alt.hypertext newsgroup, essentially giving the World Wide Web to humanity for free. He could have become a...
1985
The domain name system's first .com domain was registered
Symbolics.com became the first .com domain ever registered, beating out computer giants like IBM and Apple. The Massachusetts computer company is long...
1969
Apollo 9 launched to test the lunar module in Earth orbit
Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart tested the lunar module 'Spider' that would later land on the moon. Schweickart also per...
1945
Finland declared war on Germany, its former ally in World War II
After fighting alongside Germany against the Soviet Union, Finland switched sides near the war's end in an awkward diplomatic maneuver. This meant Fin...
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner became the official national anthem of the United States
MajorPresident Herbert Hoover signed a congressional resolution making Francis Scott Key's 1814 poem set to music the official anthem. Surprisingly, the U....
1923
TIME magazine published its first issue
MajorThe inaugural cover featured Congressman Joseph G. Cannon, not a president or world leader. Founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, the magazine cost...
1915
NACA, the predecessor to NASA, was established
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was created to supervise aeronautical research with a budget of just $5,000. This tiny agency would ev...
1875
The first indoor game of ice hockey was played in Montreal
Students from McGill University organized the game at the Victoria Skating Rink, using a wooden puck instead of a ball to prevent spectator injuries....
1863
Congress created the Idaho Territory from parts of Washington Territory and Dakota Territory
The name 'Idaho' was allegedly invented by mining lobbyist George M. Willing, who claimed it was a Shoshone word meaning 'gem of the mountains.' It wa...
1847
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland
MajorThe future inventor of the telephone came from a family obsessed with speech and communication—his father developed Visible Speech, and his mother and...
1845
Florida became the 27th state of the United States
Florida was admitted to the Union as a slave state, paired with Iowa as a free state to maintain the balance in Congress. The Spanish had originally n...
