Al Ahram Daily news Paper — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1917 Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear physicist who campaigned for peaceful uses of atomic energy, was born.
BirthOn this day — March 3 in African history
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Al Ahram Daily news Paper — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1917 
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1859 The two-day Great Slave Auction, one of the largest sales of enslaved people in United States history, concluded in Savannah, Georgia.
SlaveryBritish colonial authorities declared a state of emergency in Nyasaland (now Malawi) and launched Operation Sunrise, arresting nationalist leaders; the resulting deaths are commemorated as Malawi's Martyrs' Day.
PoliticsThe 'Gugulethu Seven,' young anti-apartheid activists, were killed in an ambush by South African security police in Cape Town.
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Ricardo Stuckert/PR. — CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons 2017 René Préval, twice President of Haiti, died.
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