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Tuesday, 03 March 2026
1981 Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC. 
1981 Verne Rowe, actor (Verne-Fernwood 2 Night), dies at 59
1983 Greg LeMond is recorded as becoming only American to win cycling's Road Championship.
1983 Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)
1985 George O'Brien, actor (Daniel Boone, Salute), dies of a stroke at 85.
1986 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY
1989 Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer/director (Maigret), dies at 86
1990 Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44172186.
1990 Henry Faas, [Wandelganger], Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies.
1991 Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, the last drive-in in NJ, closes.
1991 Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77
1992 John van Dreelen, [Jacques T van Drielen Gimberg], actor (Topaz), dies.
1993 Clyde Adler, voice (White Fang/Black Tooth-Soupy Sales), dies
1994 Laurentius LM "Laurens" van Deenen, (pathed)physiologist, dies at 66.
1995 The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing, China, with nearly 5000 delegates from around the world in attendance. V.
1995 Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45
1996 Sam Cook, cricketer (Gloucestershire slow bowler with one Test for England), dies.
1997 Huron Central Railway, owned by Genessee Rail-One, takes over operation of the former CP line between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury, Ont
1997 RaiLink-Lakeland and Waterways takes over the former CN lines in northeastern Alberta from Boyle to Lynton, near Fort McMurray. Agreement was reached on 2 September, operation commenced on 4 September and formal transfer took place on November 24
1997 Belle Stewart, singer, dies at 91
2007 Northeast Nicaragua takes a direct hit from Hurricane Felix. The hurricane was a strong Category 5 storm when it reached the coast.
2012 42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco.
2014 Monsoon rains beging and cause flooding over a sustained period that results in the deaths of over 400 people in India and Pakistan.
2017 Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai criticizes Suu Kyi's lack of response to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.
2017 US President Donald Trump announces Dreamers program, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) will be stopped
2018 Amazon is recorded as becoming America's second trillion dollar company.
2018 NFL player Colin Kaepernick who kneeled during the US national anthem is the new face of Nike's 30th anniversary advertising campaign
2018 Strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years, Jebi hits Tokushima prefecture, swamping Kansai airport and killing at least 11
2018 F.B.I. announces they have recovered Dorothy's ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz", stolen 13 years ago.
2018 WHO reports more than a quarter of people worldwide (1.4 billion) don't get enough physical exercise to avoid major diseases.
2018 Italian city Florence bans people eating in the street in its historic center.
2018 400-year old sunken Portuguese spice trade ship discovered near port of Cascais, Portugal.
2019 YouTube fined $170 million for illegally collecting data on children's viewing habits by US Federal Trade Commission.
