September 3
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September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). There are 119 days remaining.
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Events
- 590 - St. Gregory I becomes Pope
- 1189 - Richard I of England crowned in Westminster
- 1651 - Charles II of England is defeated at the Battle of Worcester
- 1777 - The Flag of the United States flies in battle for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge, Maryland.
- 1783 - Treaty of Paris (1783) signed, ending the American revolutionary war
- 1826 - USS Vincennes leaves New York to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe
- 1861 - Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades Kentucky
- 1895 - First professional football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.)
- 1900 - United Kingdom annexes Natal, South Africa
- 1916 - Battle of Verdun
- 1939 - France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany
- 1939 - Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies announces that, as a consequence of Britain's declaration, Australia is also at war
- 1943 - Italy invaded by the Allied forces during World War II
- 1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam
- 1971 - Qatar regains independence from the United Kingdom
- 1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
- 1976 - Viking 2 lands on Mars
- 1978 - John Paul I becomes Pope
Births
- 1499 - Diane de Poitiers, lover of Henri II of France
- 1781 - [[Eug�ne de Beauharnais]], son of Napoleon?s wife, Josephine († 1824)
- 1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter
- 1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, writer
- 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer († 1951)
- 1883 - Harold DeForest Arnold, telephone pioneer
- 1902 - Mantan Moreland, actor († 1973)
- 1907 - Lorne Eiseley, anthropologist
- 1910 - Kitty Carlisle, actress, television personality
- 1913 - Alan Ladd, actor († 1964)
- 1916 - Eddie Stanky, baseball player († 1999)
- 1923 - Mort Walker, cartoonist
- 1926 - Anne Jackson, actress
- 1927 - Hhgh Sidey, contributing editor at Time Magazine
- 1929 - Irene Papas, actress
- 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
- 1944 - Valerie Perinne, actress
- 1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik Prime Minister of Norway
- 1955 - Steve Jones, musician (Sex Pistols)
- 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
- 1948 - Eduard Benes, President of Czechoslovakia
- 1962 - E. E. Cummings, poet
- 1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author
- 1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician and songwriter
- 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
Holidays
September 2 - September 4 - August 3 - October 3 - more historical anniversaries
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "September 3" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_3 September 3, 2003
