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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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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)
1865The 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 refimprove section, Outdated sections
1885American 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
1918Bolshevist 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)
1943Second 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
1945Second World War: The Royal Air Force mistakenly bombed the neighbourhood of Bezuidenhout in The Hague, killing 511 evacuees. Citations needed
1951Jackie 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
1958Nuri 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

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Notes

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

Program for the woman suffrage parade
Program for the woman suffrage parade
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