03/03/10

Bizet's Carmen premiered at the Opéra Comique in Paris in 1875 and the world's first organised indoor hockey game was played in Montreal on the same day.  Arthur Scargill announced in 1985 that the NUM national executive had voted to end the miners' strike.  And Los Angeles police were videotaped beating Rodney King during a routine traffic stop in 1991.

Born today:  Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Robyn Hitchcock (1953), Miranda Richardson (1958) and Charlie Brooker (1971).

It is Hinamatsuri, or Girls' Day, in Japan.