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March 3, 2019
(
2019-03-03
)
(Sunday)
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Disasters and accidents
Tornado outbreak of March 3, 2019
At least 23 people are confirmed dead, many are injured, and 10,000 customers are without electricity after several tornadoes strike
Lee County
in southeast
Alabama
.
(Fox News)
(BBC News)
After heavy snowfall, avalanches close
Interstate 70
and three
Copper Mountain
passes in
Summit County, Colorado
.
(KCNC-TV)
Politics and elections
2019 Estonian parliamentary election
Jüri Ratas
, incumbent
Prime Minister of Estonia
, and his party gets second place in the election, while opposition leader
Kaja Kallas
's
Estonian Reform Party
gets the largest number of votes, and the right-wing
Conservative People's Party
doubles in seats.
(BBC News)
2019 Italian Democratic Party leadership election
Governor of
Lazio
,
Nicola Zingaretti
, wins the leadership election by a landslide, defeating
Maurizio Martina
and
Roberto Giachetti
, and becoming the new
Secretary
of the
Democratic Party
.
(
The Guardian
)
National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States
Senator
Rand Paul
is expected to vote against
Donald Trump
’s national emergency.
(
The Hill
)
Science and technology
2019 in spaceflight
SpaceX
's unmanned spacecraft
Dragon 2
successfully docks with the
International Space Station
(ISS) for the first time.
(BBC News)
(NASA Spaceflight)
Sports
2019 in tennis
,
2019 Roger Federer tennis season
,
Open Era tennis records – men's singles
Roger Federer
wins the
2019 Dubai Tennis Championships
, his 100th
ATP
singles title overall, defeating
Stefanos Tsitsipas
, 6–4, 6–4, in
the final
. Federer became the second male tennis player in the
Open Era
after
Jimmy Connors
to win 100 ATP singles titles.
(ATP Tour)
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