This day in History - March 3

501 Historic Events for March 3
1895 Birth Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist (1st Nobel prize in economy-1969)
1895 Birth Alex[ander] Nearmolen, composer
1895 Birth Robert Gordon, Ks, actor (Loveless)
1895 Birth Alexander Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer
1895 Birth Juanita Hansen, Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love)
1896 Death ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies of injuries
1897 Birth Jose Moreno Gans, composer
1899 Event Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
1899 Birth Alfred M Gruenther, US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56)
1899 Birth Juri Olescha, writer
1899 Event George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy
1900 Birth Edna Best, Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo)
1900 Event US Steel Corporation organizes
1901 Event Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce
1902 Birth Ruby Dandridge, Memphis Tenn, actress (Father of the Bride)
1902 Death Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79
1903 Event North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
1903 Birth Rabbe A Enckell, Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen)
1903 Birth Gilbert Adrian, [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer
1905 Event US Forest Service forms
1906 Event Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
1906 Birth Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat
1906 Birth Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
1906 Birth Donald Novis, Hastings England, actor (Monte Carlo)
1907 Birth Aar van de Werfhorst, [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer