Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 3
This is a list of selected March 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Pope Eugene IV
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1431 – Gabriel Condulmer became Pope Eugene IV (pictured), succeeding Martin V. | refimprove section, and Pope Pius XII is also featured on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 2, so perhaps best not to have two papal items on consecutive days |
| 1585 – The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, a theatre designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, was inaugurated. | unreferenced section |
| 1820 – The U.S. Congress passed the Missouri Compromise. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1861 – The Emancipation Manifesto of Tsar Alexander II was proclaimed, abolishing serfdom in Imperial Russia. | refimprove |
| 1865 – The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation opened its doors, originally to help Hong Kong merchants finance the growing trade between China and Europe. | refimprove |
| 1875 – French composer Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, premiered at the Opéra Comique in Paris. | currently undergoing major revision (2012) |
| 1878 – The signing of the Treaty of San Stefano, ending the Russo-Turkish War, established Bulgaria as an autonomous principality in the Ottoman Empire. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1885 – American Telephone & Telegraph, one of the first nationwide long-distance telephone networks, was incorporated. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1918 – Bolshevist Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central Powers and exited from the First World War. | Tagged with {{Citations missing}} |
| 1923 – The first issue of Time, a newsmagazine founded by Americans Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, was published. | refimprove |
| 1958 – Nuri as-Said became the Prime Minister of Iraq for the 14th time. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1875 – The first indoor game of ice hockey was played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal by James Creighton and McGill University students.
- 1915 – The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA, was founded.
- 1924 – The Free State of Fiume, a short-lived independent free state located in the modern city of Rijeka, Croatia, was annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
- 1931 – "The Star-Spangled Banner", originally a poem written by American author Francis Scott Key after watching the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, officially became the national anthem of the United States.
- 1943 – Second World War: During a German aerial attack on London, 173 people were killed in a stampede while trying to enter Bethnal Green tube station, which was being used as an air raid shelter.
- 1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, recorded "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
March 3: Liberation Day in Bulgaria (1878); Hinamatsuri in Japan
- 1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas (pictured) and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence and captured Nassau in the Bahamas.
- 1945 – A former Armia Krajowa unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
- 1991 – Motorist Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles policemen, causing public outrage that increased tensions between the African American community and the police department over the issues of police brutality and social inequalities in the area.
- 1997 – The Sky Tower in Auckland, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 metres (1,076 ft), opened.