3rd
September, on
this day
36 BC - In the
battle
of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats
Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to
the Second Triumvirate.
301 San
Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's
oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint
Marinus.
590 St
Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1189 England's King
Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster
1260 The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle
of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat
and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1650 Third English Civil War: Battle
of Dunbar (1650)
1651 Battle
of Worcester during the English Civil War. Defeat for the Royalist
supporters of Charles II by the Parliamentary army commanded by Oliver
Cromwell
1666 The Royal Exchange burnt down in the Great Fire of London
1752 This day never happened nor the next 10 as England adopts Gregorian
Calendar. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their
lives
1777 Battle
of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1783 Treaty of Paris signed (ending the US
Revolutionary War)
1783 Britian finally recognises the United States of America by signing
the
Treaty of Paris which officially ends the American War of Independence
1791 The French National Assembly passes the French Constitution -
formerly making France a constitutional monarchy
1798 Weeklong battle of St.
George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast
of Belize.
1826 USS
Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1826 In Moscow, Nicholas I is crowned Tsar of Russia
1833 NY
Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
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.
1852 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1855 Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General
William S. Harney avenge the Grattan
Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women,
and children.
1861 Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality
1865 Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's
Bureau to stop seizing land
1870 Franco-Prussian War: the Siege
of Metz begins, which will result in a decisive Prussian victory
on October 23.
1874 The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan
to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
1878 Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess
Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
1879 Afghan troops
massacre the British legation in Kabul - leading to the British invasion
of Afghanistan
1891 Cottonpickers organize union and stage strike in Texas
1895 In US, 1st pro football game played (Latrobe, Penn)
1900 British annex Natal
(South Africa)
1904 St Louis Olympics close
1912 World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1914 Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope
Benedict XV
1914 William,
Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due
to opposition to his rule.
1916 Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun
1916 Captain Leefe
Robinson becomes the first pilot to shoot down a Zeppelin airship
- during a German air raid on London in World War I. The airship catches
fire after being attacked and crashes at Cuffley in Hertfordshire.
Robinson is later awarded the Victoria Cross
1918 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of
1917
1925 Dirigible "Shenandoah"
crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
1929 Dow Jones Industrial Average reached all time high at the time
(381.17), which was shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.
1930 5,000 people killed by a hurricane in the Dominican Republic
capital, Santo Domingo
1933 Yevgeniy
Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism
Peak (7495 m).
1934 Tunisia began its move for independence
1935 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir
Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1939 Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later
quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada
1939 In Britain,
the formation of the Citizens'
Advice Bureau - established to help people understand and comply
with new rules and regulations that are introduced at the start of
World War II
1939 British Prime
Minister Neville
Chamberlain forms an all-party War Cabinet with Winston Churchill
as First Lord of the Admiralty
1940 1st showing of high definition colour TV
1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base
lease
1942 Uprising of the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva
occurs.
1943 Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time
in the war.
1944 Holocaust:
Diarist
Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train
from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later
1944 Liberation
of the Belgian capital, Brussels, during World War II
1945 Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to Allies
1951 The first long-running American television soap opera, Search
for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
1954 The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled
islands of Quemoy.
1954 Pope
Pius X canonized a saint
1962 Opening of
the Trans-Canada Highway - a 4,800 mile road from St John's in Newfoundland
in the east to Victoria, British Columbia in the west
1964 In US, Wilderness
Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1966 24th World SF Convention honors Gene
Roddenberry
1966 British soldiers
Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth become the first Britons
to row across the Atlantic
1967 In US, Final episode of "What's
My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly
1967 Nguyen
Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution
1967 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road
1971 John Lennon leaves the UK for NYC, never to return
1971 Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
1971 Watergate team breaks into Daniel
Ellsberg's doctor's office
1975 Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
1976 Viking
2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos
1978 Crew of Soyuz
31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
1978
Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
1979 Hurricane
David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
1994 Sino-Soviet
Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target
their nuclear weapons against each other.
1995 eBay
founded.
1995 Admiral of
the Fleet, Lord Hill Norton, backs claims that the British Government
is covering up evidence of a UFO sighting in the south of England
in 1990
1997 A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom
Penh airport, killing 64
1999 In the final
report into the death of Diana,Princess of Wales, French judges blame
the car crash in Paris in 1997 on the chauffeur, Henri
Paul and dismiss all charges against the 9 freelance photographers
who had been following the car on motorbikes
2004 The Beslan
school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people,
mostly teachers and children. |
3rd
September 2005
Troops
ordered to hurricane zone
Fires
rage amid rescue efforts
Grieving
Beslan marks siege end |
3rd
September 2006
Iraq
holds 'key al-Qaeda figure'
'Canadians
die' in Afghan clash
Probe
crashes into Moon's surface
3rd September
2007
Bush
holds 'war council' in Iraq
UK
Basra base exit 'not a defeat'
N
Korea 'to come off terror list'
3rd September
2008
Afghan
attack kills Canada troops
US
gives $1bn to rebuild Georgia
Pakistan
PM's motorcade attacked
3rd September
2009
New
protests in western China
Gabon
rampage after poll result
US
halts aid over Honduras coup
3rd September
2010 |
Birthdates
which occurred on 3rd September:
1596 Nicolo Amati
Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri)
1757 Charles X Versailles France, Duke of Prussia
1803 Prudence Crandall founded school for "young ladies of colour"
1811 John Humphrey Noyes Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
1849 Sarah Orne Jewett Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)
1856 Louis Henri Sullivan Boston Mass, father of modern US architecture
1860 Edward Albert Filene merchant, established US credit union movement
1866 Alain Locke famous African
19-- Lou Richards Terrytown TX, actor (Clark-Gloria)
19-- Mary Grace Canfield Rochester NY, actress (Ralph-Green Acres)
19-- Merritt Butrick Gainesville Fla, actor (Johnny-Square Pegs)
1905 Carl David Anderson NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics)
1907 Andrew Brewin Canada, lawyer/cofound New Democratic Party
1907 Dr Loren Eiseley professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets)
1910 Dorothy Maynor Norfolk Va, soprano (founded Harlem School of
Arts)
1913 Alan Ladd actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers, Boy on a Dolphin)
1914 Kitty Carlisle Hart New Orleans La, actress (Animal Crackers)
1917 Eddie "Brat" Stanky Phil Rizzuto's nemesis/2nd baseman
(Dodgers)
1918 Helen Wagner Lubbock Tx, actress (Nancy-As The World Turns)
1923 Mort Walker cartoonist (Beetle Bailey)
1923 Terry Wilson Calif, actor (Bill-Wagon Train)
1926 Anne Jackson Penn, actress (Dirty Dingus Magee, Angel Levine)
1926 Irene Papas actress (Anne of Thousand Days, Guns of Navarone,
Z)
1931 Mitzi Gaynor Chicago Ill, actress (South Pacific)
1932 Richard Tyler NYC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
1935 Eileen Brennan LA Calif, actress (Laugh-In, Pvt Benjamin)
1940 Pauline Collins London England, actress (Shirley Valentine)
1942 Al Jardine rocker (Beachboys-In My Room)
1944 Sherwood C "Woody" Spring Hartford Ct, Col USA/astronaut
(STS 61B)
1944 Valerie Perrine Galveston Tx, actress (Steam Bath, Superman,
Lenny)
1945 Mike Harrison keyboardist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1956 Hans-Georg Beyer German DR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1980)
1965 Charlie Sheen actor (Carlos Estevez), NYC, actor (Wall St, Platoon)
1971 Tonja Christenson Salt Lake City Utah, playmate (November, 1991)
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Deaths which occurred
on September 3rd:
1189 Rabbi Jacob of Orleans killed in anti Jewish riot in London England
1658 James I king of England (1603-25), dies at 92
1658 Oliver Cromwell the Lord Protector of England, dies at 59
1962 e. e. cummings poet, dies at 67
1969 Ho Chi Minh North Vietnamese president, dies
1970 Vince Lombardi football coach, dies in Washington DC at 57
1982 Michael Thoma actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55
1984 Arthur Schwartz actor, dies after a stroke at 83
1984 Duncan Renaldo actor (Cisco Kid), dies at 80
1990 David Acer Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients
1991 Frank Capra director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94
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