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1 of 7 | The Israeli opera stops on June 5, 2012 before the opening of the Israeli opera festival before the Israeli Opera Festival of Geroges Bizets “Carmen” “Carmen” “Carmen” “Carmen”. License photo

March 3 (Upi) – On this date in history:

In 1845 Florida was admitted to the United States as the 27th state.

In 1875 “Carmen” was premiered by Georges Bizet in Paris.

In 1879, lawyer Belva Ann Lockwood was the first woman to argue about a case in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 1923, Time Magazine published its first edition. The magazine was released weekly until March 2020 when it started every other week.

In 1931, a congress act “The Star Banner” described the United States's national anthem.

Pink plays the national anthem in front of the Super Bowl Lii in the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on February 4. Photo by Kamil Krzaczynski/Upi

In 1938 the last of three public exhibition procedures began, the trial of twenty -one, and the accused were charged with a conspiracy to murder Josef Stalin and some of the highest officials in the Soviet regime.

In 1974 a Turkish jetliner crashed near Paris and killed 345 people. The investigators initially suspected a bomb on board the DC-10 aircraft, but later they found that a cargo door was wrong and was opened in the air. It was the most deadliest air disaster at that time.

In 1982 the Argentine government threatened to break off diplomatic relationships with Great Britain if the Falkland Islands were not returned to the islands up to the 150th anniversary of the following year of the following year. A month later, the Falkland war broke out between the two countries, which led to a British victory. To date, the South American archipelago remains a British territory.

In 1985, the Minister of Coal in Great Britain ended a one -year strike, the longest and most expensive working dispute in British history.

In 1986, the US Presidential Commission for Organized Crime called for a 32-month investigation that demanded most of the working Americans, including all federal employees, drug tests.

In 1991 the home video conquered a police in Los Angeles who beat the driver Rodney King, who triggered a national debate about the brutality of the police. The acquittal of the LAPD officers in 1992 led to fatal unrest, in which King asked at a press conference: “Can we all get by?” King died in 2012 at the age of 47.

In 2006 the former US representative Randy Cunningham, R-Calif. Cunningham was released from prison in 2013.

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In 2015, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Hillary Clinton only used a personal e -mail server to run official business while acting as US foreign minister.

In 2019, the unmanned Crew Dragon from SpaceX created with the International Space Station, the company's first ISS docking.

In 2020, the organization distributed the most prestigious award in the industry for the first time in the four-decades history of the Pritzker Architecture Prize on two women's Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.

In 2024, the basketball star from Iowa Hawkeye, Caitlin Clark, set up the record of all time NCAA and passed “Pistol” Pete Maravich with 3,685 points. She ended her college career with 3951 points.

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