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Today in History ~ September 3
Events0590 - St Gregory I begins his reign as Pope
1189 - England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster,
1543 - Cardinal Beaton replaces Earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland
1609 - Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan
1632 - Battle at Nuremberg: 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
1709 - 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1752 - This day never happened nor next 10 as England and it's colonies adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot, thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1777 - The American flag was flown in battle for the first time during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch's Bridge, Maryland. [H]
1783 - Treaty of Paris signed (ending US Revolutionary War) The treaty bears the signatures of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay.
1791 - French Constitution passed by French National Assembly
1826 - USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1833 - First successful penny newspaper was published. Benjamin H. Day issued the first copy of "The New York Sun". By 1826, circulation was the largest in the country at 30,000.
1838 - Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
1849 - Cal State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
1852 - Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1855 - U.S. Army avenges the Grattan Massacre [H]
1861 - Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality
1864 - Battle of Berryville, VA
1865 - Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
1881 - Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony
1882 - French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
1891 - Cotton pickers organize union & strike in Texas
1895 - First professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA. (later became the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp) The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.
1900 - British annex Natal (South Africa)
1901 - Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client"
1908 - James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London
1912 - World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1914 - British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne
1914 - French troops vacate Reims
1916 - Allies turned back Germans in World War I's Battle of Verdun
1917 - 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes
1917 - German troops overrun Riga Latvia
1918 - 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
1918 - Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
1924 - L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premieres in NYC
1925 - Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashes near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
1929 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 381.17. It was the peak of the bull market of the 1920s.
1930 - Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
1934 - Tunisia began its move for independence
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 MPH. Campbell drove the Bluebird Special on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah at a top speed of 304.331 mph, averaging 301.129 mph.
1938 - 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
1939 - Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later quickly joined by Australia New Zealand South Africa & Canada
1939 - German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1940 - 1st showing of high definition color TV
1940 - Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21
1940 - SS 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)
1942 - Frank Sinatra began his solo singing career after leaving Tommy Dorsey's orchestra.
1943 - British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina)
1944 - 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves for Auschwitz
1944 - French troops liberate Lyon
1944 - Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
1945 - Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies
1954 - China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy & Amoy
1954 - Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed
1954 - Pope Pius X canonized a saint
1954 - The Lone Ranger Radio Show Ends after 2,956 episodes spanning 21 years.
1956 - Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
1964 - US attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns
1965 - Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to Calif
1966 - 24th World SciFi Convention honors Gene Roddenberry
1967 - Last broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS TV. The show hosted by John Daly, aired for 17 years.
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution
1967 - Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road
1971 - John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return
1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office
1974 - US & German DR establish diplomatic relations
1976 - Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos
1977 - Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total
1977 - Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV
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 storms kills over 1 000
1981 - David Brinkley ended an illustrious 38-year career with NBC News this day. ABC had offered him an opportunity too good to refuse.
1984 - A 28-year-old Chicago print shop employee won $40 million in the Illinois state lottery. At that point, it was the largest sum any individual had ever won in a lottery.
1985 - 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth
1986 - Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London
1989 - "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 performances
1992 - An Italian plane carrying eight people and nearly 10,000 pounds of blankets for Bosnian war victims crashed en route to Sara-jevo. Evidence suggested it was shot down.
1994 - Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Moscow and met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
1996 - The United States fired 27 missiles in Iraq, hitting air defense batteries. Despite criticism from Arab allies and some European allies, the U.S. fired 17 more missiles the next day.
1997 - Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of fraud by a federal jury in Phoenix. He resigned two days later, becoming the third governor in recent years to quit because of a criminal conviction.
1999 - Charges were dropped against nine photographers and a motorcyclist in connection with the 1997 crash that killed Princess Diana. Two French magistrates decided their actions (the 10 had been pursuing Diana's car through the streets of Paris) could not be definitely linked to the accident.
2001 - The U.S. and Israel walked out of the United Nations Conference on racism in Durban, South Africa.
Birthdays Today
1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri)
1695 - Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer
1757 - Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia
1778 - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
1803 - Prudence Crandall, founder of school for "young ladies of colour."
1811 - John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
1840 - Jacob Fabricius, composer
1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, author
1856 - Louis Henri Sullivan, Boston Mass, father of modern US architecture
1860 - Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen, passed away Jan 30, 1951)
1901 - Eduard A van Beinum, musician/conductor (Amsterdam Concertgebouw)
1907 - Andrew Brewin, Canadian lawyer cofounder of New Democratic Party
1907 - Loren Eiseley, professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets)
1913 - Alan (Walbridge) Ladd (actor: The Carpetbaggers, Citizen Kane, Shane, Star Spangled Rhythm, This Gun for Hire; actress Cheryl Ladd's father-in-law [she married Alan's son David]; passed away Jan 29, 1964)
1914 - Kitty Carlisle-Hart (Catherine Holzman) (actress: A Night at the Opera; panelist: To Tell the Truth)
1916 - Eddie (Edward Raymond) Stanky ('The Brat', 'Muggsy': baseball: Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1947/all-star: 1947], Boston Braves [World Series: 1948/all-star: 1948], NY Giants [World Series: 1950/all-star: 1951/record for walks in a row (7 in 1950)], SL Cardinals; manager: SL Cardinals, Chicago White Sox; passed away June 6, 1999)
1923 - Mort Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)
1925 - Hank (Henry Williams) Thompson ('Crown Prince of Country Music': singer: Humpty Dumpty Heart, Wild Side of Life, A Six-Pack to Go, Oklahoma Hills; group: The Brazos Valley Boys)
1926 - Anne Jackson, in Penn
1935 - Eileen Brennan, in LA
1940 - Pauline Collins (Tony Award-winning actress: Shirley Valentine [1989]; City of Joy, Upstairs, Downstairs)
1943 - Dave Eichelberger (golf: Senior PGA Tour pro)
1943 - Valerie Perrine, in Galveston Tx (Lenny Slaughterhouse 5)
1945 - George Biondo (musician-Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild)
1948 - Donald Brewer (musician-drums, songwriter-Silver Bullet Band, Flint, Grand Funk Railroad: We're an American Band, Walk like a Man, Shinin' On, Some Kind of Wonderful, Bad Time
1965 - Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez) (actor: Wall Street, Platoon, Hot Shots, The Chase, Men at Work, Young Guns, Major League, Major League II, Being John Malkovich, Spin City; brother of actor Emilio Estevez, son of actor Martin Sheen)
Famous deaths
1189 - Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England
1402 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, duke/tyrant of Milan (1395-1402), dies at 51
1658 - James I, king of England (1603-25), dies at 92
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies at 59
1877 - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80
1883 - Ivan Turgenyev, writer, dies at 64
1917 - Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed
1962 - e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), dies at 67
1967 - James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61
1967 - Woody Guthrie, folk legend, dies of Huntington's Chorea at 55
1969 - Ho Chi Minh, [Nguyen Ta't-Tanh], N Vietnamese president, dies at 79
1970 - Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers/Redskins), dies in Washington DC at 57
1991 - Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94
1992 - Nobel laureate geneticist Barbara McClintock died at 90.
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