What day of the week was March 3, 1991?

The day of the week March 3rd, 1991 fell on was a Sunday. There were 28 days until Easter Sunday.

Arthur Murray the Austrian-American dancer (b. 1895) died on this day in 1991. As did William Penney the Baron Penney, Gibraltarian-English mathematician, physicist, and academic (b. 1909) .

In concurrent referenda the 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia. United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs the Colorado, killing 25.