Important Events From This day in History – 03 March

Today in History

• 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.

• 1985 The U.K. miners’ strike ends

  The year-long strike was the country’s longest and defining issue for Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government.

• 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.

• 1938 The world’s fastest steam locomotive is built

  The Mallard could reach a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).

• 1924 The last remnant of the Ottoman empire in Turkey is abolished

  The fall of the Islamic caliphate signaled the end of the 600-year-old empire and the birth of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.