March 3: What is one significant event that happened Today in History?
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3rd March, 1991: On this day, it was evident that police brutality had occurred in Los Angeles, California in the middle of the night on March 3, 1991. This was proved, as it was recorded on video (although some of the audible sounds were not as noticeable as the actions). Three white police officers had proceeded to beat Rodney King beyond what was necessary to use force to control him. Moreover, these three officers had reported that the bruises, cuts, and/or scrapes they gave King were minor in nature. The beating by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department of Rodney King is captured on Video, the video then appeared on television news which angered many of the public especially those in the African American community who believed the police brutality was racially motivated. Four LAPD officers were later tried in a state court for the beating but were acquitted. The announcement of the acquittals sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. (video in link below)
1952 U.S.A. Communist Teachers Banned From Public Schools
3rd March, 1952: As part of the paranoia concerning communism and the cold war the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a New York state law that prohibits communists from teaching in public schools.
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Bolshevik Russia signs the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central Powers, abandoning the Allied war effort and granting independence to its Polish and Baltic territories, the Ukraine and Finland.
Russia's disastrous involvement in World War I was a primary factor that led to Lenin's successful Marxist revolution in November 1917. One month later, Germany agreed to an armistice and peace talks. Lenin sent Leon Trotsky to Brest-Litovsk in Belarus to negotiate a treaty.
The talks broke off after Germany demanded independence for Russian holdings in Eastern Europe and in February 1918 fighting resumed on the Eastern Front. With German troops advancing on St. Petersburg, Lenin authorised the signing of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3rd March 1918. German leaders hoped that the former Russian territories would fall under their sway, but in November 1918 an armistice ended World War I, dooming Germany to demilitarisation and Allied domination.
In 1919, Soviet Russia regained the Ukraine in the Russian Civil War, in 1939 they seized parts of Poland and in 1940 the Baltics, after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact.
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