Today in History - History - September 3rd

1189Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed.

1962Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open

1964Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson

1967Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution

1964US attorney general robert kennedy resigns

1940Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)

1974NBA guard Oscar Robertson retires

1992Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368

1928Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit

1651Battle of Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists

1965Charlie Sheen, [Carlos Estavez], NYC, actor (Wall St, Platoon)

1986Shaun White, San Diego, California, snowboarder (Olympic gold - 2006, 2010)

1905Carl David Anderson, NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics), (d. 1991)

1856Louis Sullivan, Boston Massachusetts, American architect (father of skyscrapers)

1937Author Muriel Spark (19) weds teacher Sidney Oswald Spark in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

1977"I Dream of Jeannie" actress Barbara Eden (43) weds Charles Donald Fegert

1953Explorer Edmund Hillary (34) weds Louise Mary Rose

1957World Heavyweight champion Sonny Liston (25) weds Geraldine Clark in St. Louis, Missouri

2007Actor Tobey Maguire (32) weds jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer (30) in Kona, Hawaii

2000American feminist and journalist Gloria Steinem (66) weds environmentalist David Bale (59) in Adair County, Oklahoma

1921American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) marries 1st wife Hadley Richardson (29)

1923Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)

1970Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington DC at 57

1969Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69), dies at 79 of heart failure