On this day in history - March 3

What Happened On This Day – March 3

• 1991 Footage of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King causes a global outcry

  The acquittal of the police officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

• 1985 The U.K. miners' strike ends

  The year-long dispute was the country's longest-running industrial dispute and a defining issue of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.

• 1974 All 345 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet die as it plunges to the ground near Paris, France

  The crash of the DC-10 aircraft has the 4th highest death toll of any aviation accident in history.

• 1938 The world's fastest steam locomotive is built

  The Mallard could reach a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).

• 1924 The last remnant of the Ottoman empire in Turkey is abolished

  The end of the Islamic caliphate marked the demise of the 600-year old empire and gave way to the formation of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.