1876: A field in Bath County, Kentucky, was showered by a steady rain of mystery meat. This became known as the Kentucky Meat Shower. The Kentucky Meat Shower is still shrouded in mystery today, but most people go along with the vulture vomit theory. They believe a flock of vultures likely vomited while flying high above the Kentucky farm. Then, the light breeze caught the meat, causing it to fall across the farm like rain.
1913: Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
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1923: TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1924: The last remnant of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey is abolished.
The end of the Islamic caliphate marked the demise of the 600-year-old empire and gave way to the formation of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
1938: The world’s fastest steam locomotive is built. The Mallard could reach a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
1939: In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
1959: In British Kenya, eleven imprisoned rebels of the anti-colonial Mau-Mau Rebellion are beaten to death by British guards at the Hola detention camp after they refuse to submit to forced labour. 77 more sustained permanent injuries. The Governor suppresses the report of a judicial inquiry.
1969: Apollo program- NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1974: All 345 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet die as it plunges to the ground near Paris, France.
1985: The U.K. miners’ strike ends
The year-long dispute was the country’s longest-running industrial dispute and a defining issue of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government.
1987: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, with lead vocalist Joseph Tshabalala, became the first South African group to win a Grammy award. The group won the award for the best traditional folk album. The album ‘Shaka Zulu’ was produced by music icon Paul Simon.
1991: Following a high-speed car chase, Los Angeles police officers brutally beat Rodney King, an African American motorist; despite a videotape of the beating, the policemen were acquitted in 1992, causing large-scale rioting in the city.
1996: Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras—one of the leading figures of the French postwar literary scene, who frequently wrote about obsession and impossible love—died in Paris.
2005: Steve Fossett’s circumnavigation of Earth
On this day in 2005, American adventurer Steve Fossett became the first person to complete a solo nonstop circumnavigation of the globe without refueling when he landed in Kansas after more than 67 hours in flight.
2014: Lupita Nyong’o becomes the first Kenyan and first black African to win an Academy Award (Oscar) She is named The Best Supporting Actress for her work in 2013 12 Years a Slave.
Births on This Day, March 3
Julius Malema, 43
Julius Sello Malema is a South African politician who is the founder and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a populist far-left political party known for the red berets and military-style outfits worn by its members.
Ronan Keating, 47
Ronan Patrick John Keating is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor, and television and radio presenter. He debuted in 1993 alongside Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Shane Lynch, and Stephen Gately, as the co-lead singer of the Irish pop group Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999 and he has recorded eleven albums.
Camila Cabello, 27
Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Fifth Harmony, which became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi (3 March 1924 – 29 July 1966)
Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi GCFR MVO MBE was a Nigerian military officer who was the first military head of state of Nigeria. He seized power during the ensuing chaos after the 15 January 1966 military coup. His desire to abolish the regions and impose a unitary government met with anti-Igbo riots in the north. He was assassinated on 29 July 1966 in another military coup at the age of 42.
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