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Events on March 3

• 1842 At the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the world premiere of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's 3rd Symphony (“Scottish Symphony”) takes place under the composer's direction.
• 1871 In the German Empire, the election to the 1st German Reichstag takes place, with about 20% of the population eligible to vote. The National Liberal Party, which supports Otto von Bismarck's policies, becomes the strongest party.
• 1931 The United States Congress adopts The Star-Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key in 1814, as the national anthem of the USA.
• 1933 A few days after the Reichstag fire, KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann is arrested and taken into “protective custody” by the National Socialists.
• 1945 Allied aircraft accidentally bomb a residential district of The Hague during the Second World War instead of the nearby V2 launch ramps. Around 500 people are killed in the air raid.
• 1969 The NASA mission Apollo 9 launches into space with astronauts James McDivitt, David Randolph Scott and Rusty Schweickart aboard a Saturn V rocket. The purpose of the mission is a test flight of the lunar module.
• 1975 Accompanied by Pastor Heinrich Albertz, five prisoners are flown to Aden to secure Peter Lorenz's release. It is the only time that the German government yields to a terrorist demand.
• 1986 The Austrian news magazine profil publishes an article titled “Waldheim and the SA” about the past of the Federal Presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim and thus sets the Waldheim affair in motion.
• 1986 The heavy metal band Metallica releases its album Master of Puppets, which is regarded as a milestone of thrash metal.
• 1999 The heavyweight world championship boxing bout between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield ends in a draw, so each of the two boxing world champions retains his title—Lewis in the WBA and Holyfield in the WBC and IBF.
• 2002 The population of Switzerland decides, in a popular vote, in favor of its country joining the United Nations.
• 2017 The Nintendo Switch is released worldwide. Sales figures on release day exceed those of all previous Nintendo consoles.

Born on March 3

• 1882 Elisabeth Abegg, German educator and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1887 Kurt Wolff, German publisher
• 1911 Jean Harlow, American actress
• 1912 Klaus Gysi, German resistance fighter, politician and diplomat
• 1930 Heiner Geißler, German politician
• 1941 Jutta Hoffmann, German stage and film actress
• 1960 Andreas Thiel, German handball player
• 1961 Anita Hegerland, Norwegian singer
• 1981 Tobias Forge, Swedish rock musician
• 1991 Andreas Wolff, German handball player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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