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Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin has become Sir Charles after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become the country's first black prime minister.

The Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald, face life sentences after being found guilty of murder at the Central Criminal Court.

Six people die and 80 are injured, some of them seriously, in a train crash at Purley in Surrey.
 
Mar 3 1863

The National Conscription Act is signed, forcing all men between 20 and 45 years of age into the draft lotteries. Except for rich bastards, who could buy their way out for $300, or hire another man to serve in his place. The inevitable result is the weeklong New York Draft Riots.

Mar 3 1931

An English beer drinking song becomes the National Anthem of the United States.

Mar 3 1934

John Dillinger escapes from an escapeproof jail in Crown Point Indiana, using a wooden pistol he carved himself. It's his second escape.

Mar 3 1967

The Berkeley Barb reports that banana peels can make you high. Apparently lots of people can be fooled into thinking that the resulting "bananadine" extract is a hallucinogenic Mellow Yellow.

Mar 3 1991

Los Angles Police officers are filmed beating black motorist Rodney King with nightsticks. Television news stations repeatedly air the film nationwide. Four whites are charged with the beating on March 15, and when they are found not guilty, Los Angeles erupts in riot.

 
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