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September 3

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September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). There are 119 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays
5 External links

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Events

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 becomes Pope.
1189 - Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionhearted") is crowned at 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 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester - Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
1783 - American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1798 - Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
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.
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.
1895 - The first professional American 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.
1914 - Giacomo della Chiesa acceeds to the papacy as Pope Benedict XV.
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, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany.
1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr. authors the sonnet "High Flight".
1942 - World War II: Uprising of the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva occurs.
1943 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.
1951 - The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
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 begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy
1958 - In Greece, police start shaving the hair of youths called "teddy boys" to the skin.
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
1976 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars and 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.
2004 - The Beslan school massacre results in the deaths of approximately 344 teachers and children.