2017-03-03

Two passenger trains collided near Szczekociny, Poland, resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.

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.

The American heavy band Metallica released their third studio album, Master of Puppets, considered one of the greatest in the genre's history.

Shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 has its cargo door blown out, which resulted in a total loss of aircraft systems, which ultimately killed all 346 people on board.

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.

A Polish Home Army unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.

The first Nazi concentration camp was opened in Nohra to reduce overcrowding in prisons from the arrest of German Communists.

Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.C., "in a spirit of protest" against the exclusion of women from American society.

Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming was established as the first national forest in the United States.

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.