Today in History
3 September
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| 1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster. | ||
| 1189 30 Jews are mnassacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation | ||
| 1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster | ||
| 1260 Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army | ||
| 1483 Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army | ||
| 1543 Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland | ||
| 1568 Adriano Banchieri, composer was born | ||
| 1596 Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri) was born | ||
| 1632 Battle at Nurnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden | ||
| 1650 Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland | ||
| 1651 Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists | ||
| 1658 Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector | ||
| 1683 Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna | ||
| 1695 Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer was born | ||
| 1697 King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick | ||
| 1703 Johan-Theodoor van Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal was born | ||
| 1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC | ||
| 1725 England, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover | ||
| 1731 Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland | ||
| 1752 US adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14) | ||
| 1757 Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia was born | ||
| 1779 Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest | ||
| 1783 The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War. | ||
| 1791 French Constitution passed by French National Assembly | ||
| 1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe | ||
| 1832 Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname | ||
| 1833 NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) | ||
| 1838 Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor | ||
| 1852 Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm | ||
| 1861 Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality | ||
| 1864 US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki | ||
| 1865 Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian was born | ||
| 1878 England's Princess Alice sinks; 645 die | ||
| 1882 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die | ||
| 1888 East Africa Company political & commercial rights | ||
| 1888 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British | ||
| 1891 John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti | ||
| 1900 British annex Natal (South Africa) | ||
| 1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony | ||
| 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season) | ||
| 1904 St Louis Olympics closes | ||
| 1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne | ||
| 1914 Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV | ||
| 1914 French troops vacate Reims | ||
| 1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania | ||
| 1916 Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun | ||
| 1917 German troops over run Riga Latvia | ||
| 1917 Utrecht soccer team Holland forms | ||
| 1918 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917 | ||
| 1918 Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line | ||
| 1924 Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai) | ||
| 1925 Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die | ||
| 1929 Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17 | ||
| 1930 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic) | ||
| 1934 Tunisia began its move for independence | ||
| 1938 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland | ||
| 1939 Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later | ||
| 1939 German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia | ||
| 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. | ||
| 1940 Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation-Seel”we) | ||
| 1940 Netherland governament in exile of Gerbrandy forms London | ||
| 1940 Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross | ||
| 1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease | ||
| 1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) | ||
| 1943 The British Eighth Army invaded Italy during World War II, the same day Italy signed a secret armistice with the allies. | ||
| 1943 General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily | ||
| 1944 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz | ||
| 1944 Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France | ||
| 1944 French troops liberate Lyon | ||
| 1944 Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz | ||
| 1944 Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherland Domestic Arm Force | ||
| 1944 Tank division of British Guards free Brussels | ||
| 1945 Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies | ||
| 1949 Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1954 Pope Pius X canonized a saint | ||
| 1965 Garcia Godoy forms govt in Dominican Republic | ||
| 1965 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei | ||
| 1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected president of S Vietnam under a new constitution | ||
| 1967 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road | ||
| 1970 Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands | ||
| 1971 Manlio Brosio resigns as sect-gen of NATO | ||
| 1971 Qatar regains complete independence from Britain | ||
| 1971 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office | ||
| 1973 General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA | ||
| 1975 Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die | ||
| 1976 The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface. | ||
| 1978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 | ||
| 1978 Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. | ||
| 1979 Hurricane David struck along the central Florida coast, leaving several people dead and millions of dollars in damage. | ||
| 1979 Iran army conquerors Mahabad | ||
| 1984 South Africa adopts constitution | ||
| 1987 Coup in Burundi suspends constitution | ||
| 1989 Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die | ||
| 1995 Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit | ||
| 1997 Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire. | ||
| 1997 The U.S. Senate voted to ban most federal financing for abortions provided by the managed-care industry. |
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