WHAT HAPPENED ON 3. MARCH
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Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the eighth time. (3. March 1958)

Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module. (3. March 1969)

Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures. (3. March 1972)

Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard. (3. March 1974)

The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. (3. March 1980)

Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures. (3. March 1985)

A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless. (3. March 1985)

An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. (3. March 1991)

In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia. (3. March 1991)

United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25. (3. March 1991)

The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction. (3. March 1997)

Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion. (3. March 2005)

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling. (3. March 2005)

The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses. (3. March 2009)