What happend on 3rd March

02.03
04.03
2005

The freighter M/V Karen Danielsen, crashes into part of the Great Belt Bridge of Denmark, 800 m from Funen. All traffic across the bridge stops, effectively separating Denmark in two.

2005

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refuelling

2005

Mayorthorpe Massacre: Four members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are gunned down during a drug bust near Mayorthorpe, Alberta in the worst attack on the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.

2004

Mrs. Puff teaches SpongeBob SquarePants, who then fails, how to drive a boat in Boating School.

2002

Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favour of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.

2001

A bomb explodes outside BBC Television Centre in London. The attack was attributed to dissident Irish Republican terrorists.

2001

A U.S. Air Force Materials Command C-23 Sherpa transport crashes during stormy weather in the U.S. state of Georgia, killing 21.

1999

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones begin their successful attempt to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon without stopping.

1999

LaGrand case: The State of Arizona executes Walter LaGrand, a German despite German legal action in the International Court of Justice.

1997

The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.