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September 3
September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). There are 119 days remaining. Events: * 590 - St. Gregory I becomes Pope * 1189 - Richard I of England crowned in Westminster * 1651 - Charles II of England is defeated at the Battle of Worcester * 1777 - The Flag of the United States flies in battle for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge, Maryland. * 1783 - Treaty of Paris (1783) signed, ending the American revolutionary war * 1826 - USS Vincennes leaves New York to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe * 1861 - Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades Kentucky * 1895 - First professional football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.) * 1900 - United Kingdom annexes Natal, South Africa * 1916 - Battle of Verdun * 1939 - France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany * 1939 - Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies announces that, as a consequence of Britain's declaration, Australia is also at war * 1943 - Italy invaded by the Allied forces during World War II * 1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam * 1971 - Qatar regains independence from the United Kingdom * 1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office * 1976 - Viking 2 lands on Mars * 1978 - John Paul I becomes Pope Births: * 1499 - Diane de Poitiers, lover of Henri II of France * 1781 - Eugne de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon?s wife, Josephine († 1824) * 1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter * 1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, writer * 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer († 1951) * 1883 - Harold DeForest Arnold, telephone pioneer * 1902 - Mantan Moreland, actor († 1973) * 1907 - Lorne Eiseley, anthropologist * 1910 - Kitty Carlisle, actress, television personality * 1913 - Alan Ladd, actor († 1964) * 1916 - Eddie Stanky, baseball player († 1999) * 1923 - Mort Walker, cartoonist * 1926 - Anne Jackson, actress * 1927 - Hhgh Sidey, contributing editor at Time Magazine * 1929 - Irene Papas, actress * 1933 - Tompall Glaser, country music singer * 1938 - Caryl Churchill, playwright * 1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist * 1938 - Eileen Brennan, actress * 1942 - Al Jardine, rock and roll musician, member of the Beach Boys * 1944 - Valerie Perinne, actress * 1955 - Steve Jones, musician (Sex Pistols) * 1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor Deaths: * 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England * 1857 - John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Company Factor * 1883 - Ivan Turgenev, author * 1948 - Eduard Benes, President of Czechoslovakia * 1962 - E. E. Cummings, poet * 1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author * 1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician and songwriter * 1970 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach * 1974 - Harry Partch, microtonal composer * 1980 - Duncan Renaldo, actor * 1991 - Frank Capra, American movie director * 2001 - Pauline Kael, American movie critic
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