Notable Historical Events on September 3rd
September 3rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
36 |
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. |
BC AD | |
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 |
Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed. |
1260 |
Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army |
1483 |
Utrecht surrenders to Habsburg army |
1543 |
Cardinal Beaton replaces the Earl of Arran as regent for Queen Mary of Scotland |
1632 |
Battle of Nuremberg: Duke Wallenstein beats Sweden |
1650 |
Battle of Dunbar: England vs Scotland |
1651 |
Battle of Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists |
1658 |
Richard Cromwell ("Tumbledown Dick") succeeds his father as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth |
1683 |
Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna |
1697 |
King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick |
1709 |
1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC |
1725 |
Britain, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover |
1731 |
Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland |
1752 |
Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives |
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. |
1779 |
Earl d'Orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest |
1783 |
Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America |
1791 |
French Constitution passed by French National Assembly |
1798 |
Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye began between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize. |
1812 |
World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy |
1826 |
USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe |
1832 |
Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname |
1833 |
New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) |
1838 |
Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor |
1849 |
California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey |
1852 |
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm, Sweden |
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 |
1864 |
Battle of Berryville, VA |
1864 |
US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Straits of Simonoseki |
1865 |
Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land |
1874 |
The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez". |
1878 |
British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die |
1881 |
1st US Men's Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (6-0 6-3 6-2) |
1881 |
Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony |
1882 |
French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die |
1890 |
Oliver S Campbell wins US Tennis Open |
1891 |
11th US Men's Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (2-6 7-5 7-9 6-1 6-2) |
1891 |
Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas |
1891 |
John Stephens Durham named US minister to Haiti |
1895 |
1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn) |
1900 |
With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa |
1900 |
Russian troops now control both sides of the Amur River on the Russo-Manchurian boundary |
1901 |
Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony |
1902 |
Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season) |
1902 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client" |
1903 |
Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup |
1904 |
St Louis Olympics closes |
1906 |
Phila Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10,000 fans |
1906 |
Yanks win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win |
1908 |
James Barries "What Every Woman Knows" premieres in London |
1911 |
31st US Men's Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (6-4 6-4 6-2) |
1912 |
Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke" premieres |
1914 |
British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attack the Marne |
1914 |
Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV |
1914 |
French troops vacate Rheims |
1914 |
Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania |
1914 |
Lemburg capital of Galicia, is taken after a three-day battle in which the Russians rout the Austrians |
1916 |
Allies turned back Germans in Battle of Verdun |
1916 |
US President Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike |
1917 |
1st night bombing of London by German aircraft |
1917 |
German troops overrun Riga, Latvia |
1917 |
Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader |
1917 |
Utrecht soccer team Holland forms |
1918 |
38th US Men's Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (6-3 6-1 7-5) |
1918 |
5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot (or Camp Logan riot); in all 19 mutineers were executed. |
1918 |
Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line |
1921 |
16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0) |
1921 |
KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms |
1923 |
Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy" premieres in NYC |
1924 |
Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai) |
1924 |
L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?" premieres in NYC |
1925 |
1st international handball match held |
1925 |
Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die |
1928 |
Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit |
1929 |
Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929. |
1930 |
Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic) |
1932 |
Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US Tennis title |
1932 |
Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th & 51st HRs to become 3rd to hit 50 |
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) |
1935 |
Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games |
1936 |
3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000) |
1938 |
1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland |
1939 |
German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans |
1939 |
Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win |
1939 |
WWII: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada |
1940 |
First showing of high definition color TV |
1940 |
39.4 cm rainfall at Sapulpa, Oklahoma (state record) |
1940 |
Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion) |
1940 |
Dutch government in exile of Gerbrandy forms in London |
1940 |
Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross |
1940 |
US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease |
1941 |
1First use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) |
1941 |
KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1943 |
British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina) |
1943 |
General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily |
1944 |
58th US Women's Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (6-3 8-6) |
1944 |
68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp |
1944 |
Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France |
1944 |
Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title |
1944 |
French troops liberate Lyon |
1944 |
Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz |
1944 |
Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force |
1944 |
Tank division of British Guards free Brussels |
1945 |
65th US Men's Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 6-1 6-2) |
1945 |
Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies |
1947 |
Phila A's Bill McCahan no-hits Wash Senators, 3-0 |
1947 |
Yanks get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2 |
1948 |
W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party |
1949 |
Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives |
1950 |
"Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix. |
1951 |
TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS |
1953 |
European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect |
1953 |
French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy |
1954 |
China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy & Amoy |
1954 |
Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed in the US, prompted by the cold war |
1954 |
Pope Pius X canonized a saint |
1954 |
The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy. |
1954 |
The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. |
1955 |
KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee |
1957 |
Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ) |
1957 |
KTCA TV channel 2 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out |
1962 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open |
1964 |
US attorney general robert kennedy resigns |
1964 |
Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson |
1965 |
Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins |
1965 |
Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic |
1965 |
Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game |
1965 |
Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei |
1965 |
Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to Calif |
1966 |
24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry |
1966 |
Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman" |
1967 |
Final episode of "What's My Line?" hosted by John Charles Daly on CBS TV |
1967 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
1967 |
Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution |
1967 |
Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road |
1967 |
WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run |
1970 |
After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out |
1970 |
Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia |
1970 |
Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands |
1971 |
John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return |
1971 |
Manlio Brosio resigns as secretary general of NATO |
1971 |
Qatar regains complete independence from Britain |
1971 |
Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office |
1971 |
A baby girl and an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier are killed in separate shooting incidents in Northern Ireland |
1973 |
General Walters ends term as acting director of CIA |
1973 |
Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
1974 |
Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut |
1974 |
NBA guard Oscar Robertson retires |
1974 |
US & German Democratic Republic establish diplomatic relations |
1975 |
Chartered Boeing 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die |
1975 |
Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak |
1976 |
Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos |
1977 |
Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total |
1977 |
Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV |
1978 |
Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 |
1978 |
Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5) |
1978 |
Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff |
1979 |
Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000 |
1979 |
Iran army conquerors Mahabad |
1979 |
Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000 |
1979 |
Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1981 |
Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game |
1981 |
Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7 |
1982 |
Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns |
1984 |
28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery |
1984 |
Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th |
1984 |
Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1984 |
Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566 |
1984 |
South Africa adopts constitution |
1985 |
20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth |
1985 |
England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval |
1985 |
NY Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game |
1986 |
Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind" premieres in London |
1986 |
Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game |
1987 |
Coup in Burundi suspends constitution |
1988 |
Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45 |
1988 |
Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War |
1989 |
"Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 perfs |
1989 |
Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die |
1989 |
Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st & last US Tennis Open singles victory |
1990 |
9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleve 3-0 |
1990 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1990 |
Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego) |
1990 |
Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186 |
1990 |
White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57 |
1992 |
Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368 |
1994 |
Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000 |
1995 |
Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT) |
1995 |
Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3) |
1995 |
NY Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle |
1995 |
Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit |
1995 |
eBay founded. |
1996 |
Slowinski & Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime) |
1997 |
A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64. |
2004 |
The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children. |
2012 |
3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan |
2012 |
Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea |
2012 |
New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan |
2013 |
15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula |
2013 |
Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion |
2016 |
SpaceX assessing launch pad damage after explosion at Cape Canaveral |
2017 |
North Korea detonates its sixth and most powerful nuclear test yet |
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