September 3

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

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 - Eugène 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
• 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

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