March 3, the day emperor Aurangzeb died

On this day in 1861, the emancipation of Russian serfs is proclaimed.

Today is March 3, the sixty third day of the year.
There are 302 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1707 - Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb dies and is succeeded by Bahadur Shah I.

1813 - Britain signs Treaty of Stockholm with Sweden, which agrees to supply army in return for British subsidies and a promise not to oppose union with Norway.
1849 -U.S. Congress creates the Minnesota Territory; the Home Department, forerunner of the US Interior Department, is established
1861 - Emancipation of Russian serfs is proclaimed.
1875 - The Georges Bizet opera "Carmen" premieres in Paris.
1878 - Bulgaria is liberated from five centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule.
1896 - Peace of Bucharest between Serbia and Bulgaria is signed.

1918 - Russian Bolsheviks sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, surrendering a quarter of the country to Germany while receiving crucial support in return.
1931 - The United States officially adopts the Star-Spangled Banner" as the country's national anthem.
1932 - Chinese forces are driven back from Shanghai by Japanese.
1941 - Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact and allows German troops to cross its territory. Although Bulgaria becomes an ally of Nazi Germany, Bulgarians oppose deportation of Jews and save them from Nazi death camps.
1944 - U.S. fighter planes make first appearance over Berlin in World War II.
1974 - Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashes shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, killing nearly 350 people.
1988 - Political clashes leave 11 people dead and more than 300 injured in Bangladesh as accusations of vote fraud mar parliamentary elections.
1991 - Civil unrest spreads in cities in southern Iraq after the Gulf War leaves the Iraqi military in shambles; in a case that sparked a national outcry, motorist Rodney King is severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.
1992 - Police say they recover the bodies of 120 Azerbaijanis killed as they fled an Armenian assault in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1993 - An American soldier is killed by a land mine in Somalia and a second dies in a truck crash, bringing to six the number of Americans killed in Operation Restore Hope.
1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs an executive order that takes steps toward retaliatory tariffs against Japanese imports.
1995 - The former president of Mexico, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, goes on a hunger strike to force the government to take back what he describes as slander against him. He suspends the strike a few hours later.
1996 - A bomb explodes aboard a bus in the heart of Jerusalem, killing 19 people, including the bomber.
1997 - A passenger train derails in Pakistan's Punjab province, killing at least 125 people and injuring more than 450.
1998 - A nationwide strike shuts down most of Zimbabwe's economy and the government threatens to punish those who encouraged the protest.
1999 - An estimated 74 million U.S. viewers watch former White House intern Monica Lewinsky confess the details of her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton.

2000 - Former dictator General Augusto Pinochet returns to Chile a free man, 16 months after he was detained in Britain on torture charges.
2002 - In a break with the country's long-standing tradition of isolationism and neutrality in world affairs, Swiss citizens vote in favor of becoming the 190th member of the United Nations.
2003 - U.S. officials announce the arrests of three members of Rwanda's ethnic Hutu rebel movement for the 1999 murders of two American tourists in Uganda. The killers reportedly targeted English-speaking visitors to undermine U.S. and British support for the new Rwandan government.

Today's Birthdays:
Thomas Otway, English dramatist (1652-1685)
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American inventor of telephone (1847-1922) Jean Harlow, U.S. actress (1911-1937)
Jennifer Warnes, U.S. singer (1947--)
Miranda Richardson, British actress (1958--)
Tone-Loc, U.S. rapper/actor (1966--)
Jessica Biel, U.S. actress (1982--)

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