Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 3
On March 3:
- 1431 - Gabriel Condulmer became Pope as Eugenius IV.
- 1820 - The U.S. Congress passed the Missouri Compromise.
- 1885 - Telephone company AT&T was incorporated.
- 1878 - Bulgaria regained independence from Ottoman Empire.
- 1991 - Motorist Rodney King was beat by Los Angeles policemen.