September 3
is the 246th day of the year (247th in
leap years). There are 119 days remaining.
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36 BC - In the
battle of Naulochus,
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of
Octavian, defeats
Sextus Pompeius, son of
Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the
Second Triumvirate.
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301 -
San Marino, one of the
smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest
republic still in existence, is founded by
Saint Marinus.
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590 -
St. Gregory I becomes
Pope.
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1189 -
Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionhearted") is crowned at
Westminster.
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1260 - The
Mamluks defeat the
Mongols at the
Battle of Ain Jalut in
Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
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1540 -
Gelawdewos becomes
Emperor of Ethiopia.
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1650 -
Third English Civil War:
Battle of Dunbar (1650)*
1651 -
Third English Civil War:
Battle of Worcester -
Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
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1777 -
Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of
American Revolutionary war in
New Castle County,
Delaware where the
Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
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1783 -
American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the
Treaty of Paris by the
United States and the
Kingdom of Great Britain.
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1798 - Weeklong battle of
St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of
Belize.
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1826 - The
USS Vincennes commanded by
William Finch, leaves
New York City to become first
United States warship to circumnavigate globe.
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1838 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future
abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in
Maryland on his way to freedom from
slavery.
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1843 - Under siege by his own army, King Otto of Greece grants his subjects a Constitution.
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1855 -
Indian Wars: In
Nebraska, 700 soldiers under
American General
William S. Harney avenge the
Grattan Massacre by attacking a
Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
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1861 -
American Civil War:
Confederate General
Leonidas Polk invades neutral
Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for
Union assistance.
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1874 - The congress of the state of
México elevates
Naucalpan to the category of
Villa, with the title of "Villa de
Juárez".
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1878 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat
Princess Alice collides with the
Bywell Castle in the
River Thames.
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1892 -
Nottingham Forest play their first ever football league game. It ended 2-2 against
Everton FC.
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1895 - The first professional
American football game is played, in
Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe
YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0).
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1914 -
Giacomo della Chiesa acceeds to the papacy as
Pope Benedict XV.
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1933 -
Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the
Soviet Union -
Communism Peak (7495 m).
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1935 - Sir
Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331
miles per hour on the
Bonneville Salt Flats in
Utah, becoming the first person to drive an
automobile over 300 mph
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1939 -
World War II:
France, the
United Kingdom,
New Zealand, and
Australia declare war on
Germany.
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1941 -
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. authors the sonnet "High Flight".
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1942 -
World War II: Uprising of the Jewish
ghetto in
Lakhva occurs.
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1943 -
World War II: Mainland
Italy is invaded by
Allied forces for the first time in the war.
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1951 - The first long-running American television
soap opera,
Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the
CBS network.
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1954 - The
People's Liberation Army begin shelling the
ROC-controlled islands of
Quemoy*
1958 - In
Greece, police start
shaving the hair of youths called "
Teddy Boys" to the
skin.
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1967 -
Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of
South Vietnam.
* 1967 -
Dagen H in
Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
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1976 -
Viking program: The
Viking 2 spacecraft lands at
Utopia Planitia on
Mars and takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
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1991 - In
Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the
Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
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1994 -
Sino-Soviet Split:
Russia and the
People's Republic of China agree to de-target their
nuclear weapons against each other.
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1997 -
Arizona Governor
Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his
real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office.
* 1997 - A
Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into
Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
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2004 - The
Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 teachers and children.
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1034 -
Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d.
1073)
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1499 -
Diane de Poitiers, mistress of
Henri II of France (d.
1566)
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1568 -
Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d.
1634)
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1675 -
Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d.
1751)
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1693 -
Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d.
1746)
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1695 -
Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d.
1764)
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1710 -
Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d.
1784)
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1724 -
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d.
1808)
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1781 -
Eugène de Beauharnais, son of
Napoleon's wife, Josephine (d.
1824)
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1810 -
Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d.
1871)
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1827 -
John Drew,
Irish-born American actor (d.
1862)
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1849 -
Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d.
1909)
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1856 -
Louis Sullivan, American architect (d.
1924)
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1859 -
Jean Jaurès, French Socialist leader (d.
1914)
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1869 -
Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1930)
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1875 -
Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d.
1951)
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1885 -
Ed Konetchy, baseball player (d.
1947)
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1887 -
Frank Christian, American musician (d.
1973)
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1899 -
Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1985)
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1900 -
Maurice Dobb, economist (d.
1976)
* 1900 -
Urho Kekkonen, eighth
President of Finland (d.
1986)
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1905 -
Carl David Anderson, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1991)
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1907 -
Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d.
1977)
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1908 -
Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d.
1988)
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1910 -
Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality
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1913 -
Alan Ladd, American actor (d.
1964)
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1914 -
Dixy Lee Ray, Governor of Washington State (d.
1994)
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1916 -
Eddie Stanky, baseball player (d.
1999)
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1917 -
Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (d.
2000)
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1918 -
Helen Wagner, American actress
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1921 -
Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d.
1971)
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1922 -
Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (d.
1976)
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1923 -
Mort Walker, American cartoonist
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1928 -
Gaston Thorn,
President of the European Commission*
1929 -
Irene Papas, Greek actress
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1930 -
Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d.
2002)
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1931 -
Dick Motta, American basketball coach
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1933 -
Tompall Glaser, American singer
* 1933 -
Freddie King, American Blues Musician
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1938 -
Eileen Brennan, American actress
* 1938 -
Caryl Churchill, English playwright
* 1938 -
Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1940 -
Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist
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1941 -
Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d.
1990)
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1942 -
Al Jardine, American musician (
the Beach Boys)
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1943 -
Valerie Perrine, American actress
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1947 -
Kjell Magne Bondevik,
Prime Minister of Norway*
1949 -
Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d.
2004)
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1950 -
Doug Pinnick, American bassist and vocalist (
King's X)
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1955 -
Steve Jones, English musician (
Sex Pistols)
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1957 -
Garth Ancier, American television executive
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1959 -
Merritt Butrick, American actor (d.
1989)
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1963 -
Amber Lynn, American porn star
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1964 -
Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
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1965 -
Charlie Sheen, American actor
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1967 -
Luis Gonzalez, baseball player
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1969 -
John Fugelsang, American actor
* 1969 -
Dominic West, British actor
* 1969 -
Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (d.
2004)
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1970 -
Gareth Southgate, English footballer
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1976 -
Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
* 1976 -
Ashley Jones, American actress
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1977 -
Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer
*1977 -
Rui Marques, Angolan footballer
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1978 -
John Curtis, English footballer
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1979 -
Tomo Milicevic, Croatian musician (
30 Seconds to Mars)
*1979 -
Júlio César, Brazilian footballer
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1980 -
The B.G., African American rapper
* 1980 -
Jason McCaslin, Canadian bassist (
Sum41)
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1982 -
Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
* 1982 -
Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
* 1982 -
Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter
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1985 -
Scott Carson, English footballer
* 1985 -
Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
* 1985 -
Tiana Ringer, American professional wrestler
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1986 -
Shaun White, American snowboarder and skateboarder
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1402 -
Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (b.
1351)
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1420 -
Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland
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1592 -
Robert Greene, English writer (b.
1558)
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1634 -
Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (b.
1552)
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1653 -
Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (b.
1588)
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1658 -
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b.
1599)
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1662 -
William Lenthall, English politician (b.
1591)
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1720 -
Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (b.
1648)
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1729 -
Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b.
1646)
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1766 -
Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b.
1686)
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1808 -
John Montgomery, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b.
1722)
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1857 -
John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b.
1784)
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1860 -
Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b.
1804)
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1866 -
Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b.
1830)
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1883 -
Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (b.
1818)
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1893 -
James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b.
1816)
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1903 -
Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b.
1832)
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1914 -
Albéric Magnard, French composer (b.
1865)
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1948 -
Edvard Beneš,
President of Czechoslovakia (b.
1884)
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1962 -
E. E. Cummings, American poet (b.
1894)
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1963 -
Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (b.
1907)
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1964 -
Stewart Holbrook, American author (b.
1893)
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1967 -
James Dunn, American actor (b.
1905)
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1970 -
Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b.
1913)
* 1970 -
Alan Wilson, American blues musician,
Canned Heat (b.
1943)
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1974 -
Harry Partch, American composer (b.
1901)
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1980 -
Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b.
1904)
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1981 -
Alec Waugh, English writer (b.
1898)
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1987 -
Morton Feldman, American composer (b.
1926)
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1989 -
Rip Sewell, Baseball player (b.
1907)
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1991 -
Frank Capra, American film director (b.
1897)
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1994 -
James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b.
1918)
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1996 -
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian Aboriginal artist (b.
1910)
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2001 -
Pauline Kael, American film critic (b.
1919)
* 2001 -
Thuy Trang, American actress (b.
1973)
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2003 -
Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b.
1954)
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2005 -
Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b.
1913)
* 2005 -
William Rehnquist,
Chief Justice of the United States (b.
1924)
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RC Saints -
Pope Gregory I,
Saint Marinus*
Qatar -
Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1971)
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San Marino - Foundation (301) by
Saint Marinus*
Taiwan/
Republic of China -
Armed Forces Day*
Australia -
Flag Day*Date of death of Papa, subject of
The Temptations hit record
Papa Was a Rolling Stone.
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BBC: On This DaySeptember 2 -
September 4 -
August 3 -
October 3 – more
historical anniversaries
