Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 3
March 3: Casimir Pulaski Day in Illinois (2008); Liberation Day in Bulgaria (1878); Hinamatsuri in Japan.
- 1585 – The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, a theatre designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, was inaugurated.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: 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.
- 1931 – "The Star-Spangled Banner", originally a poem written by American author Francis Scott Key after watching the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, officially became the national anthem of the United States.
- 1958 – Nuri as-Said became the Prime Minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
- 1997 – The Sky Tower in Auckland, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 metres (1,076 ft), opened.