On March 3

Two passenger trains collided near Szczekociny, Poland, resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.

The American heavy metal band Metallica (pictured) released their third studio album, Master of Puppets, considered one of the greatest in the genre's history.

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.

A Polish Home Army unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.

The first Nazi concentration camp was opened in Nohra to reduce overcrowding in prisons from the arrest of German Communists.

Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.C., "in a spirit of protest" against the exclusion of women from American society.

Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming was established as the first national forest in the United States.

The first indoor game of ice hockey was played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal by James Creighton and students of McGill University.

Bizet's Carmen premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, with mezzo-soprano Célestine Galli-Marié in the title role (pictured).

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.

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.

The Statute of Rhuddlan was enacted, introducing English common law to the Principality of Wales.