March 3rd in History

1873: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, one of the most drastic attempt at censorship in that country.
1885: AT&T, one of the first telephone companies, is incorporated.
1905: Tsar Nicholas II creates the Russian Duma, the country's first elected assembly.
1931: The US adopt the 'Star Spangled Banner' as their national anthem
1992: Bosnia declares independence from Yugoslavia.

March 3rd birthdays

1605: Edmund Waller, British poet
1831: George Pullman, US designer of railway carriages
1847: Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor of the telephone
1895: Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist and one of the founders of modern economic theory.
1911: Jean Harlow, American film star
1958: Miranda Richardson, English actress