Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 3
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March 3: Total lunar eclipse begins at 20:18 UTC (2007); Liberation Day in Bulgaria (1878); Hinamatsuri in Japan.
- 1776 - Samuel Nicholas (pictured) and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence and captured Nassau in the Bahamas.
- 1878 - The signing of the Treaty of San Stefano established Bulgaria as an autonomous principality in the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 - Bolshevist Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central Powers and exited from World War I.
- 1931 - "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became the national anthem of the United States.
- 1958 - Nuri as-Said became the Prime Minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
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