Event:
Australia's Nepean-Hawkesbury River system floods after the Warragamba Dam overflows, causing evacuations in the Sydney suburbs Richmond, Pitt Town and Grono Point
More Notable Events on March 3:
1995 Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce
1974 World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated
1882 New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
1845 Florida becomes 27th state
