📜 This Day in History
March 3
1284The Statute of Rhuddlan was enacted, introducing English common law to the Principality of Wales.- 1820The 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.
- 1875The first indoor game of ice hockey was played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal by James Creighton and students of McGill University.
- 1933The first Nazi concentration camp was opened in Nohra to reduce overcrowding in prisons from the arrest of German Communists.
- 1972The 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.
- 2012Two passenger trains collided near Szczekociny, Poland, resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.
