What Happened On This Day ? March 3
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1991
Footage of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King causes a global outcry
The acquittal of the police officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
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1985
The U.K. miners' strike ends
The year-long dispute was the country's longest-running industrial dispute and a defining issue of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.
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1974
All 345 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet die as it plunges to the ground near Paris, France
The crash of the DC-10 aircraft has the 4th highest death toll of any aviation accident in history.
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1938
The world's fastest steam locomotive is built
The Mallard could reach a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
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1924
The last remnant of the Ottoman empire in Turkey is abolished
The end of the Islamic caliphate marked the demise of the 600-year old empire and gave way to the formation of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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1981
Julius Malema
South African politician
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1977
Ronan Keating
Irish singer-songwriter, actor
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1869
Henry Wood
English conductor
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1847
Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish/American engineer, invented the Telephone
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1845
Georg Cantor
German mathematician
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1987
Danny Kaye
American actor
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1983
Herge
Belgian illustrator
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1707
Aurangzeb
Mughal Emperor
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1706
Johann Pachelbel
German composer
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1703
Robert Hooke
English scientist