Events
September
3
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 – Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory
the Great).
863 – Major Byzantine victory at the Battle
of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
1189 – Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard
"the Lionheart") 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: in the Battle
of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces
led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal
to King Charles II of England and led by
David Leslie, Lord Newark.
1651 – Third English Civil War: Battle of
Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated
in the last main battle of the war.
1658 – Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
of England
1666 – The Royal Exchange burns down in
the Great Fire of London
1777 – American Revolutionary War: during
the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of
the United States is 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 – The week long battle of St. George's
Caye begins between Spain and Britain off
the coast of Belize.
1802 – William Wordsworth composes the sonnet
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September
3, 1802.
1803 – English scientist John Dalton begins
using symbols to represent the atoms of
different elements.
1812 – 24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon
Roost Massacre in Indiana.
1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass
escapes from slavery.
1855 – Indian Wars: in Nebraska, 700 soldiers
under United States General William S. Harney
avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking
a Sioux village and 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.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of
Metz begins, resulting 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".
1875 – The first official game of Polo is
played in Argentina after being introduced
by British Ranchers.
1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure
boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell
Castle in the River Thames.
1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves
the country after just six months due to
opposition to his rule.
1925 – USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the United
States' first American-built rigid airship,
was destroyed in a squall line over Noble
County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew
perished, including her commander, Zachary
Lansdowne.
1933 – Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man
to reach the highest point in the Soviet
Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil
Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan)
(7495 m).
1935 – Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed
of 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 after the invasion of Poland,
forming the Allies.
1941 – The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy
camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration
camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon
B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
1942 – World War II: In response to news
of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads
an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva, in
present-day Belarus.
1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion
of Italy begins.
1944 – Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and
her family are placed on the last transport
train from the Westerbork transit camp to
the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving
three days later.
1945 – Three-day celebration was held in
China, following the Victory over Japan
Day on September 2.
1950 – "Nino" Farina becomes the
first Formula One Drivers' champion after
winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
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 begins
shelling the Republic of China-controlled
islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan
Strait Crisis.
1954 – The German U-Boat U-505 begins its
move from a specially constructed dock to
its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science
and Industry.
1967 – Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes
from driving on the left to driving on the
right overnight.
1971 – Qatar becomes an independent state
1976 – Viking program: The American Viking
2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on
Mars.
1987 – In a coup d'état in Burundi, President
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major
Pierre Buyoya.
1994 – Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the
People's Republic of China agree to de-target
their nuclear weapons against each other.
1997 – Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev
TU-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh
airport, killing 64.
1999 – An 87-automobile pile-up happens
on Highway 401 freeway just East of Windsor,
Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick
fog from Lake St. Clair.
2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis – day
3: the Beslan hostage crisis ends with the
deaths of over 300 people, more than half
of which are children.
Holidays
and observances
China's
victory over Japan commemoration related
observances:
Armed Forces Day (Republic of China)
V-J Day (People's Republic of China)
Christian Feast Day:
Marinus
Pope Gregory I
Remaclus
September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feast of San Marino and the Republic, celebrates
the foundation of the Republic of San Marino
in 301.
Flag Day (Australia)
Independence Day, celebrates the second
independence of Qatar from Great Britain
in 1971.
Levy Mwanawasa Day (Zambia)
Memorial Day (Tunisia)
Merchant Navy Remembrance Day (Canada)
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