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- 0036 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.
- 0301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
- 0590 St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1188 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: Battle of Dunbar (1650)
- 1666 The Royal Exchange burnt down in the Great Fire of London
- 1752 This day never happened nor the next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the govt 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.
- 1783 Treaty of Paris signed (ending the US Revolutionary War)
- 1798 Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
- 1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st U.S. warship to circumnavigate globe
- 1833 NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
- 1838 Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
- 1849 Calif State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
- 1852 Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
- 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
- 1863 First Australian troops arrive in New Zealand
- 1865 Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
- 1874 The congress of the state of Mxico elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Jurez".
- 1878 Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
- 1891 Cottonpickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
- 1891 John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti
- 1895 Latrobe, PA is the site of the world's first professional football game, played today between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.)
- 1899 Nikola Tesla caused a series of earthquakes at Yakutat Bay, Alaska - but from lab down the Rockies in Colorado Springs, Colorado that day. - USA
- 1900 British annex Natal (South Africa)
- 1904 St Louis Olympics close
- 1912 World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy, they use lead toseaal the cans!!
- 1914 William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
- 1916 Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun
- 1918 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
- 1925 Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
- 1930 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
- 1932 Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US tennis title
- 1933 Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495 m).
- 1934 Tunisia began its move for independence
- 1935 Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
- 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
- 1939 Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies announces that, as a consequence of Britain's declaration, Australia is also at war
- 1939 England and France declare war against Germany, during WWII.
- 1939 World War II begins when France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, starting the Allies.
- 1940 The first showing of high definition color TV
- 1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
- 1942 Ol' Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, begins his solo singing career.
- 1943 Invasion of Italy by Allied forces; Italy secretly signs armistice with the Allies.
- 1943 World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.
- 1944 Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US tennis title
- 1944 Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
- 1945 After the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9), Japan officially surrendered on August 15, and formally on September 3 when the signing took place aboard the U.S. battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
- 1945 Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to Allies
- 1949 Visitor posting - Glenn Shafar was born
- 1951 The soap opera Search for Tomorrow debuts on CBS-TV.
- 1952 Visitor posting - Paul Guest born in Wigan - United Kingdom
- 1953 Visitor posting - Ernie K born - Edmonton, Canada
- 1954 After nearly 3,000 episodes, The Lone Ranger ends 21-year legacy of radio drama.
- 1954 Pope Pius X canonized a saint
- 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.
- 1954 The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.
- 1957 Visitor posting - September 3,1957 Mia Jones was born in Phila. Pa. USA
- 1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
- 1966 24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry
- 1967 Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
- 1967 Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly
- 1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution
- 1967 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road
- 1968 Visitor posting - Pastor Stephen T. Robinson born in Washington D.C. Pastors the City of Refuge Church, Houston Texas becomes entrepreneur husband, father. - USA
- 1970 Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi dies in Washington DC.
- 1971 Visitor posting - Cindy K Keeling (children's book author) was born - USA
- 1971 John Lennon leaves the UK for NYC, never to return
- 1971 Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
- 1971 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
- 1975 Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
- 1976 The unmanned NASA spacecraft Viking Two makes a successful Mars landing to begin its mission of sending color photos back to Earth.
- 1976 Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
- 1977 Visitor posting - Sheyla Sanlak was born - Germany
- 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - Way Down
- 1977 Visitor posting - September 3 1977 Shalen Rucker is born!
- 1978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
- 1978 Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
- 1979 Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
- 1981 David Brinkley ends 38 years with NBC News as anchor and commentator, only to jump ship to rival network ABC.
- 1981 Visitor posting - september 3 1981 billiejo sprague in born
- 1982 Visitor posting - September 3, 1982 Shane Dale Snodgrass was born.
- 1983 Number one hit on UK music charts - UB 40 - Red Red Wine
- 1984 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
- 1988 Heidi Ittermann was born!
- 1989 A Cuban jetliner crashes shortly after takeoff in Havana, killing 152 people.
- 1989 Visitor posting - Josh Melton born - USA
- 1990 A Florida dentist dies of AIDS after allegedly infecting five of his patients with the AIDS virus.
- 1991 In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
- 1991 Visitor posting - Ashli Pierson was born this day
- 1993 Visitor posting - Kara Renee Yogan was born! - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Kade was Born! - USA
- 1994 Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Aisha Hoten was born - United Kingdom
- 1995 eBay founded.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Tyler Ray Bowden is born! - USA
- 1997 A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
- 2002 Visitor posting - Geoffrey Harper born - USA
- 2004 The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Rylie Braxton Connell was born - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - Holden Raymond is born - Canada
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