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 - Eug�ne 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