On this day: March 3

March 3: Liberation Day in Bulgaria (1878); Hinamatsuri in Japan

Ruins of the municipal archive of Cologne

• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence and captured Nassau in the Bahamas.
• 1875 – French composer Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1924 – The Free State of Fiume, a short-lived independent free state located in the modern city of Rijeka, Croatia, was annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
• 1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, recorded "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 2009 – The building housing the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, one of the largest communal archives in Europe, collapsed (ruins pictured).

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