Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Two passenger trains collided near Szczekociny, Poland, resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.

The American heavy metal band Metallica (pictured) released their third studio album, Master of Puppets, considered one of the greatest in the genre's history.

The British rock band Jethro Tull released Thick as a Brick, a parody concept album allegedly adapted from an eight-year-old boy's epic poem.

A Polish Home Army unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.

The first Nazi concentration camp was opened in Nohra to reduce overcrowding in prisons from the arrest of German Communists.

Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.C., "in a spirit of protest" against the exclusion of women from American society.

Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming was established as the first national forest in the United States.

Bizet's Carmen premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, with mezzo-soprano Célestine Galli-Marié in the title role (pictured).