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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Images

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  Extract from the Statute of Rhuddlan
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  Rhuddlan Castle [where the Statute of Rhuddlan was promulgated]
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  Pope Eugene IV
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  Inez Milholland leading the woman suffrage parade
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  First AT&T logo from 1889
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  Alexander II of Russia
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  Ruins of the municipal archive of Cologne
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  Jethro Tull in concert in 1973
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  Rodney King
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  Poster for the premiere of Carmen

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1431 – Gabriel Condulmer became Pope Eugene IV, succeeding Martin V.	date not cited
1585 – The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, a theatre designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, was inaugurated.	refimprove section
1861 – The Emancipation Manifesto of Tsar Alexander II was proclaimed, abolishing serfdom in Imperial Russia.	lots of CN tags (11)
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	refimprove section, Outdated sections
1885 – American Telephone & Telegraph, at one point the world's largest telephone company, was incorporated in New York.	refimprove section
1878 – The signing of the Treaty of San Stefano, ending the Russo-Turkish War, established Bulgaria as an autonomous principality in the Ottoman Empire.	refimprove
1915 – The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA, was founded.	unreferenced section
1918 – Bolshevist Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central Powers and exited from the First World War.	refimprove section
1931 – "The Star-Spangled Banner", originally a poem written by American author Francis Scott Key after witnessing the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, became the official national anthem of the United States.	lots of CN tags (11)
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.	unreferenced section
1945 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force mistakenly bombed the neighbourhood of Bezuidenhout in The Hague, killing 511 evacuees.	Citations needed
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.	too many quotations
1958 – Nuri al-Said became the Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth and final time.	refimprove
2009 – The building housing the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, one of the largest communal archives in Europe, collapsed.	refimprove section
Ascanio Sforza |b|1455	lots of CN tags (14)
Maurice Garin |b|1871|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence in the Bahamas and began a raid of Nassau, capturing the port the next day.
• 1820 – The U.S. Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, which balanced the admission of Missouri as a slave state with that of Maine as a free state.
• 1875 – French composer Georges Bizet's opera Carmen (poster pictured), based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1875 – The first indoor game of ice hockey was played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal by James Creighton and students of McGill University.
• 1933 – The first Nazi concentration camp was opened in Nohra to reduce overcrowding in prisons from the arrest of German Communists.
• 1945 – A Polish Home Army unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
• 1972 – The British rock band Jethro Tull released Thick as a Brick, a parody concept album allegedly adapted from an eight-year-old boy's epic poem.
• 2012 – Two passenger trains collided near Szczekociny, Poland, resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.
• Born/died this day: | Michael Kantakouzenos Şeytanoğlu |d|1578| Matthias de l'Obel |d|1616| Thomas Otway |b|1652| Robert Hooke |d|1703| Ghulam Kadir |d|1789| Thomas Field Gibson |b|1803| Georg Cantor |b|1845| Johanna Wokalek |b|1975| Rebecca Lancefield |d|1981| Tolu Ogunlesi |b|1982| Hergé |d|1983|

Notes

• Tokyo Skytree is featured on February 29, so Sky Tower should not appear in the same year
• Pope Pius XII is featured on March 2, so Pope Eugene IV should not appear in the same year
• 1820 Maine is featured on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 15, so 1820 Missouri Compromise should not appear in the same year

March 3: Liberation Day in Bulgaria (1878); Hinamatsuri in Japan

Program for the woman suffrage parade

• 1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan was enacted, introducing English common law to the Principality of Wales.
• 1891 – Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming was established as the first national forest in the United States.
• 1913 – Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.C. (program cover pictured) "in a spirit of protest" against the exclusion of women from American society.
• 1924 – The Ottoman Caliphate, the world's last widely recognized caliphate, was abolished.
• 1991 – Motorist Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers during an arrest, causing public outrage that increased tensions between the African-American community and the police department over police brutality and social inequality.

• Antony Bek (d. 1311)
• Bonnie J. Dunbar (b. 1949)
• Xavier Bettel (b. 1973)
• May Cutler (d. 2011)

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