{"id":501286,"date":"2026-03-02T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/march-3rd-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:31:10","slug":"march-3rd-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/march-3rd-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"March 3rd Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong>\u00a0The events of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/efemerides\/efemerides-del-1-de-marzo\/\">March 3<\/a><\/strong>, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0<strong>Below, the main events of March 3:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/category\/estilo\/efemerides\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>World Hearing Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Birth Defects Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Writers' Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Wildlife Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>National: March 3rd Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1845.<\/strong>&nbsp;The government of General Pedro Santana orders the deportation of do\u00f1a Manuela Diez, mother of Juan Pablo Duarte, and sends her a passport that obliges her to leave the country as soon as possible along with the rest of her family.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1865.<\/strong>&nbsp;Queen Isabella II of Spain signs the decree repealing the annexation, and on July 10th of the following year, the Spanish troops began to embark.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1878.<\/strong>&nbsp;General Ces\u00e1reo Guillermo enters the capital and installs a provisional government, after the previous day's flight abroad of President Buenaventura B\u00e1ez.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1930.<\/strong>&nbsp;Rafael Estrella Ure\u00f1a is sworn in as President of the Republic, although in fact the real ruler is General Rafael Le\u00f3nidas Trujillo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1940.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Cuban magazine Carteles publishes an article-political-historical analysis, written by the Dominican exile Juan Bosch, on the independence of the Dominican Republic of 1844.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1943.<\/strong>&nbsp;Professor Juan Bosch obtains the Hatuey Extraordinary Award, awarded by the Pan-American Columbist Society in Havana, on the occasion of the First Centenary of Dominican Independence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1962.&nbsp;<\/strong>The ex-military men Miguel A. Paulino, Luis Arzeno Col\u00f3n, Luis A. Cocco and Manuel A. P\u00e9rez Sosa, as well as the Cubans Salvador Sotomayor and Alberto del R\u00edo Chaviano, are deported from the country for their links with the Trujillo tyranny.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1970.<\/strong>&nbsp;President Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer is re-nominated for the presidency of the Republic by the Reformist Party and the National Youth Movement, for the elections of May 16th of this year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1973.<\/strong>&nbsp;The evening newspaper \u00daltima Hora publishes an interview with the left-wing leader Toribio Pe\u00f1a J\u00e1quez in which he affirmed that the guerrilla expedition led by the executed ex-colonel Francisco Caama\u00f1o was true, but that all his companions were still alive.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2005.<\/strong>&nbsp;Sociologist Rosario Espinal estimates that the state financing established in Electoral Law 275-97, turns the parties into a \u201cnest\u201d for the capture of legal and illegal resources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2006.<\/strong>&nbsp;The President-elect of Haiti, Ren\u00e9 Pr\u00e9val, declares during his visit to the country, that the main enemies of his country are hunger, violence, disease and unemployment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2008.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Supreme Court of Justice rejects the appeal for cassation submitted by 10 people involved in the Vehicle Renewal Plan (Renove) case and ratifies the sentence that condemns them to serve between two months to four years in prison for the fraud that exceeded RD$1,800 million.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2009.<\/strong>&nbsp;President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, meets in Havana with the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, with whom he discusses the situation in Latin America in the face of the global economic crisis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015.&nbsp;<\/strong>The PLD leader, Euclides Guti\u00e9rrez F\u00e9liz, reveals that the deceased former president Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer ordered the assassination in 1970 of the Spaniard Jos\u00e9 Enrique Piera Puig, father of the journalist Nuria Piera, because he allegedly defamed the officials of his government through a television program.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;The full member of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), doctor Roberto Salad\u00edn, accuses, without identifying, \u201cinfiltrated sectors in the media and NGOs financed with foreign resources\u201d of being behind an alleged campaign of permanent discredit against the organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>International<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>March 3rd anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>468.&nbsp;<\/strong>Simplicius is chosen as the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, with the same name.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1806.<\/strong>\u00a0In\u00a0Venezuela, General Francisco de Miranda raises the tricolor flag of the nascent South American nation for the first time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1806.<\/strong>\u00a0In\u00a0Venezuela, General Francisco de Miranda raises the tricolor flag of the nascent South American nation for the first time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1816<\/strong>. The\u00a0Bolivian\u00a0Juana Azurduy de Padilla, leading 200 men, defeats the Spanish troops, and is therefore appointed lieutenant colonel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1845.<\/strong>\u00a0Florida becomes the 27th state of the\u00a0United States.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1847.<\/strong>&nbsp;Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell is born, known, among other discoveries, for obtaining the patent for the telephone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1863.<\/strong>&nbsp;US President Abraham Lincoln signs the act that creates the National Academy of Sciences of that nation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1870.&nbsp;<\/strong>The United States government forces the grouping of Indians into reservations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1918.<\/strong>&nbsp;Through the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia withdraws from World War I.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1952.<\/strong>&nbsp;The people of Puerto Rico ratify their first Constitution in a referendum.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1996.<\/strong>&nbsp;A suicide bomber, belonging to the fundamentalist organization HAMAS, detonates a bomb in a truck near the central station of Jerusalem, leaving a balance of 24 dead and several injured.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1998.&nbsp;<\/strong>Microsoft President Bill Gates stars in a face-off with representatives of the companies that accuse him of exercising monopolistic practices before the Justice Committee of the North American Senate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>- In\u00a0Stuttgart\u00a0(Germany), the police arrest a Nazi war criminal, accused of the deaths of more than 70,000 people between 1942 and 1943.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2005.<\/strong>&nbsp;James Fossett becomes, after 67 hours of uninterrupted flight, the first person to fly around the world solo and non-stop<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/curiosidades?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=1072244916134622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2008.<\/strong>&nbsp;Ecuador breaks relations with Colombia due to the armed incursion of that country's army in an operation against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that culminated in the death of the second in command of the rebel organization, Ra\u00fal Reyes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>- The designated successor of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dimitri Medvedev, obtains a landslide victory in the presidential elections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2009.&nbsp;<\/strong>The governor of Puerto Rico, Luis G. Fortu\u00f1o, announces a plan of drastic measures to eliminate the island's budget deficit, which will involve the dismissal of more than 30,000 government officials.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>- The former Colombian paramilitary chief Diego Fernando Murillo (Don Berna), declares in a federal court in New York that the former army commander, Mario Montoya Uribe, (Colombian ambassador to the Dominican Republic), allied himself with a block of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia in an operation to disappear dozens of civilians at the end of 2002.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>- Former President Fidel Castro denies that the changes in the government of his brother and successor, Ra\u00fal Castro, imply a replacement of his loyalists for those loyal to the current president, and that two of those dismissed had \"ambitions that led them to an unworthy role\".<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Holy See publishes the statutes of the Council and the Secretariat for the Economy and those of the Office of the General Auditor, bodies created by Pope Francis to supervise Vatican finances.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016.<\/strong>&nbsp;\"Unknown\" people penetrate the home and assassinate the ecologist Berta C\u00e1ceres, leader of the Lenca indigenous community and a prominent defender of Honduran human rights, in the La Esperanza community, in the west of the country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019.<\/strong>&nbsp;The death toll from the explosion in the clandestine taking of an oil pipeline in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico, rises to 135 after the death of a victim who was still hospitalized.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>- The National Security Advisor to the White House, John Bolton, warns that his country will give a \"strong and significant response\" to any act against the safe return of opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 to Venezuela.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Due to the appearance of the Covid-19 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) urges industry and governments to increase production by 40% to meet the growing global demand in response to the shortage of personal protective equipment, a shortage that endangers health personnel around the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021.<\/strong>&nbsp;U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assures in his first major speech since taking office that the Administration of President Joe Biden will seek to change the course of \"costly military interventions\" and policies aimed at regime change in other countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Births<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>March 3rd anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1746:<\/strong>\u00a0Izabela Czartoryska, Polish writer and aristocrat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1756:<\/strong>\u00a0William Godwin, British philosopher and writer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1831:<\/strong>\u00a0George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, creator of the sleeping car.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1839:<\/strong>\u00a0Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founder of the Tata Group.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1841:<\/strong>\u00a0John Murray, Scottish oceanographer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1845:<\/strong>\u00a0Georg Cantor, German mathematician, creator of set theory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1847:<\/strong>\u00a0Alexander Graham Bell, scientist and inventor of the telephone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1930:<\/strong>\u00a0Alfredo Alc\u00f3n, renowned Argentine actor and theater director.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1951:<\/strong>\u00a0Mario Pasik, Argentine actor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1956:<\/strong>\u00a0\"Cachorro\" L\u00f3pez, Argentine musician and producer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1959:<\/strong>\u00a0Fabiana Cantilo, Argentine rock singer and songwriter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>March 3rd anniversaries<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1706:<\/strong>\u00a0Johann Pachelbel, German composer and organist (born in 1653).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1857:<\/strong>\u00a0Guillermo Brown, Irish admiral, first admiral of the Argentine navy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1963:<\/strong>\u00a0Juan G\u00e1lvez, Argentine race car driver, remembered for being the most winning driver in the Turismo Carretera.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1982:<\/strong>\u00a0Georges Perec, French writer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1993:<\/strong>\u00a0Albert Bruce Sabin, Polish-American microbiologist, developer of the oral polio vaccine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1996:<\/strong>\u00a0Marguerite Duras, French writer and director.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2005:<\/strong>\u00a0C\u00e9sar Castillo, Chilean payador<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.-\u00a0The events of March 3, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world 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