Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 3

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 * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence in the Bahamas and began a raid of Nassau, capturing the port the next day.
 * 1820 – The U.S. Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, which balanced the admission of Missouri as a slave state with that of Maine as a free state.
 * 1875 – 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.
 * 1875 – The first indoor game of ice hockey was played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal by James Creighton and students of McGill University.
 * 1933 – The first Nazi concentration camp was opened in Nohra to reduce overcrowding in prisons from the arrest of German Communists.
 * 1945 – A Polish Home Army unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
 * 1972 – 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.
 * 2012 – Two passenger trains collided near Szczekociny, Poland, resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.
 * Born/died this day: | Michael Kantakouzenos Şeytanoğlu |d|1578|  Matthias de l'Obel |d|1616| Thomas Otway |b|1652| Robert Hooke |d|1703| Ghulam Kadir |d|1789| Thomas Field Gibson |b|1803| Georg Cantor |b|1845| Johanna Wokalek |b|1975| Rebecca Lancefield |d|1981| Tolu Ogunlesi |b|1982| Hergé |d|1983|