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What happened in history on this day: September 3?
On September 3 in ...
- 1826 - USS Vincennes leaves New York to become first warship to circumnavigate globe.
- 1833 - New York Sun begins publishing (first US daily newspaper).
- 1849 - California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey.
- 1855 - American army second lieutenant John L. Grattan and about 30 men are killed while negotiating with Sioux, after killing Brule Lakota chief Conquering Bear.
- 1861 - Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality.
- 1865 - Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land.
- 1891 - Cottonpickers organize union and stage strike in Texas.
- 1918 - Five soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston, Texas riot of 1917.
- 1925 - Dirigible Shenandoah crashes near Caldwell, Ohio, USA; 13 die.
- 1929 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a high point of 381.17.
- 1943 - Near Syracuse, Sicily, Italian Guiseppe Castellano signs capitulation of Italy. US General Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff Walter Bedell Smith signs on behalf of the Allies.
- 1945 - Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to Allies.
- 1964 - US Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson.
- 1964 - By an Act of Congress (Retention of 1964 on All Coins Act), the U.S. Mint is authorized to strike 1964-dated coins past the end of the calendar year, due to a coin shortage. Production of 0.900 fine silver coins is to end in June 1965.
- 1964 - Robert Kennedy resigns as attorney general.
- 1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office.
- 1976 - American Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos.
- 1984 - 28-year-old Chicago resident wins US$40 million in Illinois Lottery Lotto state lottery.
- 1991 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
- 1995 - Online auction company eBay is founded.
- 1996 - The U.S. launches Operation Desert Strike against Iraq in reaction to the attack on Arbil.
- 1996 - Nintendo releases the Game Boy Pocket portable game system in the USA.
- 1997 - Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office.
- 2002 - Consolidated Freightways, the third largest U.S. trucking firm, files for bankruptcy.
- 2004 - Hurricane Frances makes landfall in Florida. After killing two people in the Bahamas, Hurricane Frances kills ten people in Florida, two in Georgia and one in South Carolina.
- 2007 - Steve Fossett takes off from a private airstip in western Nevada, then he and the plane vanish.
- 2008 - The CW network in the USA debuts the new 90210 TV Show.
- 2016 - The US and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally join the Paris global climate agreement.
Births on September 3
- 1811 - Birth of John Humphrey Noyes in Vermont, USA; founded Oneida Community (Perfectionists).
- 1849 - Birth of Sarah Orne Jewett in Maine, USA; author (Country of the Pointed Firs).
- 1856 - Birth of Louis Henri Sullivan in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; father of modern US architecture.
- 1905 - Birth of Carl David Anderson in New York City, New York, USA; physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics).
- 1910 - Birth of Kitty Carlisle AKA Kitty Carlisle Hartin New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actress (Animal Crackers), singer, panelist (To Tell the Truth TV show).
- 1910 - Birth of Dorothy Maynor in Norfolk, Virginia, USA; soprano (founded Harlem School of Arts).
- 1918 - Birth of Helen Wagner in Lubbock, Texas, USA; actress (Nancy - As the World Turns).
- 1923 - Birth of Terry Wilson in California, USA; actor (Bill - Wagon Train).
- 1926 - Birth of Bill Flemming in Chicago, Illinois, USA; sportscaster (60-year career, ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961-), covered more than 600 events, TV announcer for 11 Olympics).
- 1926 - Birth of Anne Jackson in Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Dirty Dingus Magee, Angel Levine, Everything's Relative).
- 1935 - Birth of Eileen Brennan in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Laugh-In, Private Benjamin).
- 1944 - Birth of Sherwood C "Woody" Spring in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; Colonel USA/astronaut (STS 61B).
- 1944 - Birth of Valerie Perrine in Galveston, Texas, USA; actress (Steam Bath, Superman, Lenny).
- 1965 - Birth of Charlie Sheen [Carlos Estevez] in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Wall Street, Platoon, Two-and-a-Half Men, Spin City).
Deaths on September 3
- 1970 - Vince Lombardi, football coach, dies in Washington DC at age 57.
- 1990 - David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDS after infecting five patients.
- 2005 - Death of William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (born 1924).
- 2022 - Death of Dan Lembo at age 75 at home in Manhattan, New York, USA; reality show contestant (Survivor: Nicaragua TV show (2010)).
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