On this day in History - March 3

1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.

1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.

1913 – Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.

1923 – US magazine Time publishes its first issue.

1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

2005 – James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.