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.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
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Poster for Carmen's premiere in 1875 -
Flag of the Free State of Fiume -
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Program to the Woman Suffrage Parade -
First AT&T logo from 1889
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1431 – Gabriel Condulmer became Pope Eugene IV, succeeding Martin V. | refimprove section |
| 1585 – The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, a theatre designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, was inaugurated. | unreferenced section |
| 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 |
| 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}} |
| 1913 – Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.C. "in a spirit of protest" against the exclusion of women from American society. | POTD for 2015 |
| 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, the weekly news magazine with the world's largest circulation, was published. | refimprove section |
| 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. | bad examples |
| 1958 – Nuri al-Said became the Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth and final time. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 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. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence and captured Nassau in the Bahamas.
- 1820 – The U.S. Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, which balanced the addition of Missouri as a slave state with the admittance of Maine as a free state.
- 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.
- 1885 – American Telephone & Telegraph, at one point the world's largest telephone company, was incorporated in New York.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force accidentally bombed the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in the Dutch city of The Hague, killing 511 evacuees.
- 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.
- 1997 – The Sky Tower in Auckland, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened.
- 2009 – The building housing the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, one of the largest communal archives in Europe, collapsed.
Notes
- Pope Pius XII is featured on March 2, so Pope Eugene IV should not appear in the same year
- Maine is featured on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 15, so Missouri Compromise should not appear in the same year
March 3: Liberation Day in Bulgaria (1878); Hinamatsuri in Japan
- 1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England.
- 1861 – The Emancipation Manifesto of Tsar Alexander II (pictured) was proclaimed, abolishing serfdom in Imperial Russia.
- 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.
- 1945 – A former Armia Krajowa unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
- 2012 – Two passenger trains collided head-on near the town of Szczekociny in Poland, resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.