What happened on September 3? There are more than 266 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 3
September 3 is the 247th day of the year 2024. There are 119 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 36th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Cherry Valley, Illinois 61016 sunrise will occur at 06:22 AM and sunset will occur at 07:27 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 148 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 3
- 36 BCIn the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
- 301San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world’s oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
- 590Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great).
- 863Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
- 1189Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard “the Lionheart”) is crowned at Westminster.
- 1260The 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.
- 1650Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.
- 1651Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
- 1658Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
- 1666The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
- 1777American Revolutionary War: during the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
- 1783American Revolutionary War: the war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1798The week long battle of St. George’s Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
- 1802William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
- 1803English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
- 181224 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
- 1838Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
- 1855Indian Wars: in Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
- 1861American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
- 1870Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
- 1874The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of “Villa de Juárez”.
- 1875The first official game of Polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British Ranchers.
- 1878Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat SS Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
- 1914William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
- 1925USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the United States’ first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
- 1933Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
- 1935Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
- 1939World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
- 1941The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
- 1942World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva, in present-day Belarus.
- 1943World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins.
- 1944Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
- 1945Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
- 1950“Nino” Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers’ champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
- 1951The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
- 1954The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
- 1954The People’s Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
- 1967Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
- 1971Qatar becomes an independent state
- 1976Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
- 1987In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
- 1994Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People’s Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
- 1997Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev TU-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
- 1999An 87-automobile pile-up happens on Highway 401 freeway just East of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair.
- 2004Beslan school hostage crisis – day 3: the Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children.
Who Were Born On September 3?
- 1034Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (d. 1073)
- 1499Diane de Poitiers, French noblewoman and mistress of King Henry II of France (d. 1566)
- 1568Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)
- 1675Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
- 1693Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
- 1695Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d. 1764)
- 1710Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
- 1724Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
- 1760James ‘Pearlie’Wilson, Scottish revolutionary (d. 1820)
- 1781Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Joséphine de Beauharnais and adoptive son of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1824)
- 1810Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
- 1811John Humphrey Noyes, American political and religious figure (d. 1886)
- 1820George Hearst, American businessman, father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
- 1841Tom Emmett, England cricketer (d. 1904)
- 1849Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d. 1909)
- 1851Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
- 1856Louis Sullivan, American architect (d. 1924)
- 1856Robert Stewart, South African cricketer (d. 1913)
- 1869Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
- 1875Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
- 1882Johnny Douglas, England cricketer and boxer (d. 1930)
- 1887Frank Christian, American trumpeter (d. 1973)
- 1897Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
- 1899Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
- 1900Maurice Dobb, British economist (d. 1976)
- 1900Percy Chapman, England cricketer (d. 1961)
- 1900Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician (d. 1986)
- 1901Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (d. 1959)
- 1905Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
- 1905John Mills, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1972)
- 1907Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977)
- 1908Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
- 1910Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
- 1910Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (d. 2007)
- 1911Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
- 1913Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
- 1914Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
- 1914Memphis Slim, American blues pianist, born John Len Chatman (d. 1988)
- 1916Eddie Stanky, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1918Helen Wagner, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1920Les Medley, English footballer (d. 2001)
- 1921Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1966)
- 1921Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
- 1923Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois)
- 1925Bengt Lindström, Swedish outdoor artist (d. 2008)
- 1925Hank Thompson, American singer (d. 2007)
- 1925Shoista Mullojonova, Tajikistani Shashmakom singer (d. 2010)
- 1926Alison Lurie, American novelist
- 1926Anne Jackson, American actress
- 1926Irene Papas, Greek actress
- 1928Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg politician, 8th Prime Minister of Luxembourg and 7th President of the European Commission (d. 2007)
- 1929Armand Vaillancourt, Canadian sculptor and painter
- 1929Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007)
- 1929James J. Bulger, former crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang based in Massachusetts.
- 1930Cherry Wilder, New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer (d. 2002)
- 1931Albert DeSalvo, American serial killer (accused to be the “Boston Strangler”) (d. 1973)
- 1931Dick Motta, American basketball coach
- 1932Eileen Brennan, American actress
- 1933Basil Butcher, West Indian cricketer
- 1933Tompall Glaser, American singer
- 1934Freddie King, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1976)
- 1935Helmut Clasen, Canadian offroad racer
- 1936Pilar Pallete, Peruvian actress and third wife of American movie star John Wayne
- 1936Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia
- 1938Caryl Churchill, English playwright
- 1938Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1940Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist
- 1940Pauline Collins, English actress
- 1941Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
- 1942Al Jardine, American guitarist (The Beach Boys)
- 1942John Shrapnel, English actor
- 1943Frank Lister, English footballer
- 1943Valerie Perrine, American actress
- 1945George Biondo, bass guitarist and songwriter (Steppenwolf)
- 1947Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
- 1947Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician
- 1948Don Brewer, drummer and singer with Grand Funk Railroad
- 1948Fotis Kouvelis, Greek lawyer and politician
- 1948Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia (d. 2008)
- 1949José Pekerman, Argentine football manager
- 1949Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, Cypriot-born 129th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa (d. 2004)
- 1950Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King’s X)
- 1951Denys Hobson, South African cricketer
- 1953Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
- 1955Steve Jones, English guitarist (Sex Pistols)
- 1956Pat McGeown, Northern Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army member (d. 1996)
- 1957Earl Cureton, American basketball player
- 1957Garth Ancier, American television executive
- 1957Steve Schirripa, American actor
- 1959Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1962Costas Mandylor, Australian actor
- 1963Amber Lynn, American porn star
- 1963Malcolm Gladwell, Canadian journalist and author
- 1963Mubarak Ghanim, United Arab Emirates footballer
- 1964Adam Curry, American Internet entrepreneur and MTV VJ
- 1964Holt McCallany, American actor
- 1964Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer
- 1964Nigel Rhodes, English actor
- 1964Spike Feresten, American television writer
- 1965Charlie Sheen, American actor
- 1966Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian politician
- 1967Chris Gatling, American basketball player
- 1969John Fugelsang, American actor
- 1969Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model, professional wrestler and valet (d. 2004)
- 1969Noah Baumbach, American film director
- 1970Gareth Southgate, English footballer
- 1970George Lynch, American basketball player
- 1970Jeremy Glick, American United Airlines Flight 93 passenger (d. 2001)
- 1971Chabeli Iglesias, Spanish journalist
- 1971Kiran Desai, Indian writer
- 1971Trevor St. John, American actor
- 1972Christine Boudrias, Canadian short track speed skater
- 1972Martin Straka, Czech ice hockey player
- 1972Natalia Estrada, Spanish model and actress
- 1973Damon Stoudamire, American basketball player
- 1973Jennifer Paige, American singer-songwriter
- 1973Norihiko Hibino, Japanese composer
- 1973Zita Urbonaitė, Lithuanian road cyclist (d. 2008)
- 1974Clare Kramer, American actress
- 1974Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricketer
- 1975Cristobal Huet, French ice hockey player
- 1975Daniel Chan, Hong Kong Celebrity
- 1976Ashley Jones, American actress
- 1976Jevon Kearse, American football player
- 1976Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
- 1977Nate Robertson, American baseball player
- 1977Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer
- 1977Rui Marques, Angolan footballer
- 1978John Curtis, English footballer
- 1978Michal Rozsival, Czech ice hockey player
- 1978Nick Wechsler, American actor
- 1978Paul Moor, English ten-pin bowler
- 1978Valfar, Norwegian vocalist (Windir) (d. 2004)
- 1979Tiffany Chapman, English actress
- 1979Tomo Miličević, Bosnian-born American guitarist (30 Seconds to Mars)
- 1980Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer
- 1980Jason McCaslin (“Cone”), Canadian bassist (Sum 41)
- 1980Jennie Finch, American softball player
- 1980The B.G., American rapper
- 1981Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
- 1982Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter
- 1982Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
- 1982Tiago Rannow, Brazilian footballer
- 1983Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver
- 1983Christine Woods, American actress
- 1983Marcus McCauley, American football player
- 1983Nicky Hunt, English footballer
- 1983Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1984Garrett Hedlund, American actor
- 1984Seo In-Young, South Korean singer
- 1985Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
- 1985Scott Carson, English footballer
- 1986Shaun White, American snowboarder and skateboarder
- 1987Chris Fountain, English actor
- 1987James Neal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1993Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol
Who Died On September 3?
- 264Sun Xiu, third emperor of Eastern Wu
- 863Umar al-Aqta, Emir of Melitene (birth year unknown)
- 1402Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1351)
- 1420Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland (b. c. 1340)
- 1592Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
- 1634Edward Coke, English jurist and Member of Parliament (b. 1552)
- 1653Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (b. 1588)
- 1658Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
- 1662William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
- 1720Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
- 1722Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks (b. 1646)
- 1729Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
- 1766Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
- 1808John Montgomery, American Continental congressman (b. 1722)
- 1857John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
- 1860Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
- 1866Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
- 1883Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist and playwright (b. 1818)
- 1886William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
- 1893James Harrison, Scottish-born Australian newspaper printer, journalist, politician and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration (b. 1816)
- 1903Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
- 1906Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian Slovene writer (b. 1846)
- 1914Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
- 1936Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impresario (b. 1876 or 1877)
- 1948Edvard Beneš, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
- 1954Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (b. 1887)
- 1961Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
- 1962E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
- 1963Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907)
- 1964Stewart Holbrook, American writer (b. 1893)
- 1967Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman(b.1893)
- 1967James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1968Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
- 1969John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
- 1970Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson, American singer and gutarist (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
- 1970Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
- 1974Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
- 1978Karin Molander, Swedish actress (b. 1889)
- 1980Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
- 1980Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1981Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)
- 1983Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
- 1985Johnny Marks, American singer (b. 1909)
- 1986Beryl Markham, Kenyan horse trainer, adventurer, aviatrix and memoir writer (b. 1902)
- 1987Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
- 1989Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
- 1991Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
- 1994Billy Wright, English footballer (b. 1924)
- 1994James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b. 1918)
- 1994Major Lance, American singer (b. 1939)
- 1996Emily Kngwarreye, Australian painter (b. 1910)
- 2000Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
- 2001Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
- 2001Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born American actress (b. 1973)
- 2002Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (b. 1919)
- 2002W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
- 2003Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
- 2005R. S. R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
- 2005William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
- 2007Carter Albrecht, American keyboardist and guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians) (b. 1973)
- 2007Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
- 2007Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
- 2007Syd Jackson, New Zealand Māori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
- 2008Donald Blakeslee, American World War II aviator (b. 1917)
- 2010Noah Howard, American jazz musician (b. 1943)
- 2010Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian (b. 1950)
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