|
September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years).
There are 119 days remaining.
Events
- 590 - St. Gregory I becomes
Pope.
- 1189 - Richard I of
England is crowned in Westminster.
- 1260 - The Mongols are defeated by the
Mameluks at the Battle of Ain Jalut.
- 1651 - English Civil
War: Battle of Worcester - Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the
war.
- 1777 - The Flag of the United States flies in battle for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge in Maryland.
- 1783 - American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris - A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the
war.
- 1826 - The USS
Vincennes commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to
become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe.
- 1838 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a
free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his
way to freedom from slavery.
- 1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village killing 100 men,
women, and children.
- 1861 - American Civil
War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
- 1878 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River
Thames.
- 1895 - The first professional football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the
Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.).
- 1902 - Popular author Sarah
Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.
- 1935 - Sir Malcolm
Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300
MPH.
- 1939 - World War II: France, Australia and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany.
- 1943 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded
by Allied forces for the first time in the war.
- 1954 - The last new episode of the Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period
of 21 years.
- 1954 - The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy and Matsu.
- 1966 - The last new episode of the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs.
- 1967 - The last telecast of the television game show What's My Line?
airs on CBS after a 17 year run.
- 1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu
is elected President of South Vietnam.
- 1967 - "Dagen H" in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right
- 1971 - Qatar regains independence from the
United Kingdom.
- 1976 - Viking program: The
Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first
close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
- 1991 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing
plant, killing 25 people.
- 1994 - Sino-Soviet
Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
- 1997 - Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office.
- 1997 - A Vietnamese
Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport,
killing 64
Births
- 1499 - Diane de
Poitiers, lover of Henri II of France
- 1781 - Eugène de
Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine
(d. 1824)
- 1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter
- 1849 - Sarah Orne
Jewett, writer
- 1875 - Ferdinand
Porsche, German automotive engineer (d. 1951)
- 1883 - Harold DeForest Arnold, telephone pioneer
- 1887 - Frank Christian,
jazz musician (d. 1973)
- 1902 - Mantan Moreland, actor (d. 1973)
- 1907 - Lorne Eiseley, anthropologist
- 1910 - Kitty Carlisle,
actress, television personality
- 1913 - Alan Ladd, actor (d. 1964)
- 1916 - Eddie Stanky, baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1923 - Mort Walker, cartoonist
- 1926 - Anne Jackson, actress
- 1927 - Hhgh Sidey, contributing editor at Time Magazine
- 1929 - Irene Papas, actress
- 1930 - Cherry Wilder,
author
- 1933 - Tompall Glaser, country music singer
- 1938 - Caryl Churchill,
playwright
- 1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese
chemist
- 1938 - Eileen Brennan,
actress
- 1942 - Al Jardine, rock and roll musician, member of the Beach Boys
- 1943 - Valerie Perrine, US
actress
- 1947 - Kjell Magne
Bondevik Prime Minister of Norway
- 1955 - Steve Jones, musician
(Sex Pistols)
- 1964 - Adam Curry, MTV VJ and Internet entrepreneur
- 1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor
Deaths
- 1658 - Oliver Cromwell,
Lord Protector of England
- 1857 - John McLoughlin,
Hudson's Bay Company Factor
- 1883 - Ivan Turgenev,
author
- 1893 - James Harrison,
Australian pioneer of mechanical refrigeration, (b. 1816)
- 1914 - Albéric Magnard,
composer
- 1948 - Edvard Benes, President of
Czechoslovakia
- 1962 - E. E. Cummings,
poet
- 1964 - Stewart Holbrook,
American author
- 1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician and songwriter
- 1969 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese revolutionist
- 1970 - Vince Lombardi,
American football coach
- 1974 - Harry Partch, microtonal composer
- 1980 - Duncan Renaldo, actor
- 1991 - Frank Capra, American movie director
- 2001 - Pauline Kael, American movie critic
- 2003 - Rudolf Leiding, car designer, Volkswagen CEO
Holidays
September 2 - September
4 - August 3 - October 3 - more
historical anniversaries
|