March 3

On This Day In History
	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.
Steve Fossett waving after landing in Salinas, Kansas, on March 3, 2005
Biography Of The Day
	Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh this day in 1847, was an audiologist who in his career was granted 18 individual patents and 12 with collaborators but was best known as the inventor of the telephone (1876).
Alexander Graham Bell
More Events On This Day In History
	1962 American Jackie Joyner-Kersee, considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever, was born.
	1934 American bank robber John Dillinger made a daring escape from prison at Crown Point, Indiana.
	1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, was officially adopted as the national anthem of the United States by act of Congress.
1923	1923 The first issue of the American weekly newsmagazine Time was published.
1918	1918 The second of two treaties of Brest-Litovsk concluded hostilities between the Central Powers and Soviet Russia during World War I.
	1861 The Russian emperor Alexander II issued the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing the serfs from slavery.
	1820 Henry Clay helped win passage of the Missouri Compromise, which divided the United States over the issue of slavery for years afterward.
1671	1671 The Paris Opéra first opened, with a performance of Pomone by composer Robert Cambert.