March 3<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau, Bahamas, during the Revolution.<\/p>\n
1779 \u2013A small contingent of Continental regulars supported by a larger force of North Carolina and Georgia patriot militia is routed by a slightly smaller force of British regulars and loyalist militia at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.<\/p>\n
1791 \u2013 Congress passes the Internal Revenue Act <\/em>\u00a0providing for taxes on distilled liquor and tobacco products inciting what would later be called the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1820 \u2013 Having been sent the bill after passage in the House of Representatives over a year previous, the Senate passes the Missouri Compromise act<\/p>\n 1845 \u2013 Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.<\/p>\n 1849 \u2013 The Territory of Minnesota is created<\/p>\n 1873 \u2013 Congress passes the Comstock Act<\/em>, making it illegal to send any “obscene literature and articles of immoral use” through the mail.<\/p>\n 1891 \u2013 The Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming is established as the first national forest in the US<\/p>\n 1910 \u2013 John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.<\/p>\n 1924 \u2013 Kemal Atat\u00fcrk completes his reform of Turkey into a secular state with the deposing of Caliph Abd\u00fclmecid II, ending the Ottoman Caliphate.<\/p>\n 1931 \u2013 The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner<\/em> as its national anthem.<\/p>\n 1938 \u2013 The Dammam oil well No. 7 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, makes the first oil strike in the country.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 NASA launches Apollo 9 with astronauts, James A. McDivitt 1972 \u2013 Mohawk Airlines Flight 405, a Fairchild-Hiller FH-227, crashes in a housing area in Albany, New York, killing 16 of the 48 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 United Airlines Flight 585, a Boeing 737, crashes on its final approach to Colorado Springs killing all 25 passengers and crew aboard and injuring 1 person on the ground.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Steve Fossett, piloting the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer, <\/em>becomes the first person to fly an airplane non stop around the world solo without refueling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 3 1776 \u2013 The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau, Bahamas, during the Revolution. 1779 \u2013A small contingent of Continental regulars supported by a larger force of North Carolina and Georgia patriot militia is routed by a slightly smaller force of British regulars and loyalist militia … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90465,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65394\/revisions\/90465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDavid R. Scott and Russell L. Schweickart aboard, to test the lunar module in Earth orbit.<\/p>\n