ON THIS DAY: Miners' strike ends, Labour giant Michael Foot dies

FROM THE ARGUS ARCHIVE:

On this day a year ago the Argus reported how the construction of the Friars Walk development would bring jobs to 650 people.

Five years ago today former Labour leader and Blaena Gwent MP Michael Foot died.

 The stories from history on this day - March 3rd

NATIONAL DAY OF MOROCCO 1802: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was published.

1831: George Pullman, US industrialist and inventor who designed the de luxe railway carriages that bear his name, was born.

1847: Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh.

1869: Sir Henry Wood, English conductor, was born in London. In 1895 he founded the Promenade Concerts (Proms) and he conducted them until his death in 1944.

1875: Bizet's Carmen was first performed at the Opera Comique in Paris. Critics called it "painful, blatant, noisy and eminently repulsive" and the composer died brokenhearted three months later.

1911: Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter), the platinum blonde actress, was born in Kansas City.

1931: The US Congress adopted The Star-Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key, as the national anthem.

1961: Edwin Bush was Britain's first suspected criminal to be identified by means of an ''Identi-kit'' picture.

1974: A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed near Paris, killing more than 340 people, including members of an English rugby club.

1982: The Barbican Arts Centre in London was opened.

1985: The Miners' strike came to an end, almost a year after it had begun.

1991: Estonia and Latvia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The trial of Oscar Pistorius began with a witness describing hearing ''bloodcurdling screams'' on the night the Paralympian shot his girlfriend. He was later found guilty of culpable homicide.