A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on September 3 throughout history.
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San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus
The Battle of Dunbar was fought between the English New Model Army, under Oliver Cromwell, and a Scottish army commanded by David Leslie on 3 September 1650 near Dunbar, Scotland.
The Treaty of Paris is signed in Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America
The new French Constitution, declaring France a constitutional monarchy, is passed by the National Assembly during the French Revolution
With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers a mold later identified as penicillin while sorting through petri dishes containing colonies of the bacteria Staphylococcus, at St. Mary's Hospital in London [1]
World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after the invasion of Poland; France follows six hours later, quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (15) is among the prisoners on the 68th and final transport of Dutch Jews sent from Westerbrooksent to Auschwitz concentration camp [1]
Sweden begins driving on the right-hand side of the road (Dagen H)
An estimated 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers are killed by Iraq by this date, many using chemical weapons, in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War
Search for Tomorrow is an American television soap opera. It began its run on CBS on September 3, 1951, and concluded on NBC, 35 years later, on December 26, 1986. Set in the fictional town of...
Arnold Schoenberg's "Fünf Orchesterstücke" (Five Pieces for Orchestra) premieres in London at a Promenade Concert
Giuseppe "Nino" Farina wins the inaugural Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by winning the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in an Alfa Romeo, finishing three points ahead of Juan Manuel Fangio
Heinz food producer Henry John Heinz marries Sarah Sloan Young
American journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) weds American Hadley Richardson (29) in Bay Township, Michigan; divorce in 1927
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)
Pop singer Cheryl Cole (27) divorces England soccer player Ashley Cole (29) due to unreasonable behavior after 3 and a half years of marriage
Battle of Ain Jalut: Mamluks of Egypt defeat the Mongol army led by Kitbuqa in the Levant, often labeled a turning point in world history, saving the Arabic-Islamic civilization from destruction
The Utrecht war of 1481–83 (Dutch: Stichtse Oorlog or Driejarige Oorlog, German: Utrechter Stiftsfehde) was a diocesan feud in the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht between 1481 and 1483, influenced by the...
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication on 24 July 1567. The...
The Battle of Rain took place on 15 April 1632 near Rain in Bavaria during the Thirty Years' War.
Battle of Worcester: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army destroys the English royalist force, composed mainly of Scots, in the last battle of the English Civil War
Turkish troops break through the defenses of Vienna
King William's War in America ends with the Treaty of Ryswick, the peace treaty ending the Nine Years' War between France and the Grand Alliance, reverting to conditions that existed before the war
First major group of Swiss German colonists reaches North and South Carolina
Britain, France, Hanover, and Prussia sign the Covenant of Hanover
William IV, Prince of Orange, is installed as Stadtholder of Friesland
The Battle of Cooch's Bridge is fought in Newark, Delaware, the only American Revolutionary War battle fought in Delaware
Earl d'Orvilliers (French-Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
Battle of St. George's Caye: Week-long battle begins between the Spanish Empire and Great Britain off the coast of Belize
The world's first factory to preserve food in tinned iron containers (Donkin, Hall, and Gamble) opens in London, England, to supply food to the Royal Navy
USS Vincennes leaves New York to become the first warship to circumnavigate the globe
Rebellious enslaved people set fire to Paramaribo, Suriname
The Sun, the first successful penny press tabloid daily newspaper in the US, begins publishingin New York City
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm, Sweden
Indian Wars: 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village in Nebraska, killing 100 men, women, and children
The Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to...
The Third Battle of Winchester, also known as the Battle of Opequon or Battle of Opequon Creek, was an American Civil War battle fought near Winchester, Virginia, on September 19, 1864.
The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy)...
The Congress of the State of Mexico elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa with the title of "Villa de Juárez"
British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sinks in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle, killing 645 people
Cotton pickers organize a union and stage a strike in Texas
Russian troops now control both sides of the Amur River on the Russo-Manchurian boundary
American yacht Reliance, the largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built, defends America's Cup for the NYYC, beating UK challenger Shamrock III off the New Jersey shore for a 3-0 series win
For the first time in Olympic Games history, there is a throw-off in the discus final after Americans Martin Sheridan and Ralph Rose tie with a best throw of 128 ft 10½ in (39.28 m) in St. Louis; Sheridan wins with 127 ft 10¼ in (38.97 m)
After an eight-minute argument over an umpire call, the NY Highlanders win by forfeit over the Philadelphia A's; the Highlanders achieve an MLB record fifth doubleheader sweep on consecutive days
The First Battle of the Marne or known in France as the Miracle on the Marne (French: miracle de la Marne) was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914.
Battle of Verdun: French counterattacks on German flanks push their frontline further from the town
A German air campaign of the First World War was carried out against Britain. After several attacks by seaplanes, the main campaign began in January 1915 with airships.
The Hindenburg Line (Siegfriedstellung, Siegfried Position) was a German defensive fortification built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front in France during the First World War.
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, (baptismal name Jan Christiaan Smuts, 24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher.
The Communist Party of Belgium was a political party in Belgium from 1921 to 1989. The youth wing of KPB/PCB was known as the Communist Youth of Belgium.
Dorothy Donnelly's "Poppy" premieres in New York City
The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes in a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14; 29 survive
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, arrived at a large island in the western Atlantic Ocean, later known as the...
Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first to reach Communism Peak (7,495 m), the highest point in the Soviet Union
Tunisia's movement for independence begins
Andrew Varipapa sets a bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
The 1940 Olympic site changes from Tokyo, Japan, to Helsinki, Finland, because of the Second Sino-Japanese War; WWII causes eventual cancellation
German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, including 28 Americans
39.4 cm of rainfall in Sapulpa, Oklahoma (state record)
Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World...
Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia), officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula...
The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium,...
Japan participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis. World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War encapsulated a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan,...
New York Yankees total 18 hits, all singles, to rout the Boston Red Sox 11-2 at Fenway Park
Władysław Gomułka is deposed as General Secretary of the Polish Workers' Party
Fire in Chiang-king, China, kills 7,000 people
The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (commonly known as the European Convention on Human Rights or ECHR) is a supranational international treaty designed to...
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist...
KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Brooklyn Dodgers play their final game in Jersey City, a 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies; 11-4 record in New Jersey
Livio Berruti is an Italian former athlete who was the winner of the 200-meter dash in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He won five medals, at individual level, and three medals with the national relay team...
Athol Fugard's first major play "The Blood Knot" premieres at Dorkay House, Johannesburg, as the first stage performance with an interracial cast in South Africa [1]
The 1964 race riots in Singapore were a series of communal disturbances and racial conflicts between the Malay and Chinese communities in Singapore.
The Dominican Republic is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.
What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States, between 1950 and 1967, on CBS, originally in black and white and later in color, with subsequent American revivals.
After playing a NL record 1,117 consecutive MLB games, Chicago Cubs outfielder Billy Williams asks to sit out
A baby girl and an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier are killed in separate shooting incidents in Northern Ireland
General Walters ends his term as acting director of the CIA
Jerry Lewis's 8th Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
Viking 2 soft-lands on Mars (Utopia) and returns photos
Japanese baseball superstar Sadaharu Oh hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron as the all-time career leader in professional baseball
Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
Hurricane Hugo was a powerful tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread destruction across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern United States in September 1989.
Jerry Lewis's 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000
Longest MLB game in Fenway Park history is suspended after 19 innings with Seattle Mariners 7, Boston Red Sox 7; Mariners win 8-7 in the 20th inning the following morning
Anker Jørgensen government in Denmark resigns
28-year-old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois State Lottery
Jerry Lewis's 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566
20th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-I): Discovery 6 returns to Earth
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
Ilyushin-62 crashes into a residential area of Havana, killing 170 people
Helen Hudson sings the national anthem in the 26th park of the year, San Diego
Jerry Lewis's 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
Jerry Lewis's 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368
Miami routs Georgia Southern 56-0, breaking the NCAA football record with its 58th consecutive home victory, surpassing the previous record of 57 straight home wins held by Alabama, who achieved this streak between 1963 and 1982
Carolina Panthers lose their debut NFL game in overtime 23-20 to the Atlanta Falcons in front of 58,808 fans at Georgia Dome
David Slowinski and Paul Gage discover 2^1257787 - 1, the 34th known Mersenne prime
Vietnam Airlines Flight 815, operated by a Tupolev TU-134, crashes on approach to Phnom Penh Airport, killing 65 with one survivor
In just his 11th start, St. Louis Cardinals' rookie pitcher Bud Smith no-hits the San Diego Padres, 4-0
Beslan school massacre, an Islamist terrorist attack in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children
After beating South Africa the previous weekend, New Zealand clinches its 6th Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 34-24 win over Australia in Auckland; All Blacks winger Doug Howlett crosses for 3 tries
Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie wins the WNBA Most Valuable Player award, joining Sheryl Swoopes as the league's only three-time winners
Panama Canal's "Third Set of Locks" expansion project begins with a massive initial explosion under Paraíso Hill, watched by thousands of people
The new Oklahoma City NBA franchise announces the team will be named the "Thunder" in reference to powerful storms in the area
Pedro Jaime Martínez is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1992 to 2009 for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox...
New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
The Sinai insurgency was an insurgency campaign in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt launched by Islamist militants against Egyptian security forces, which also included attacks on civilians.
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.
Chris the sheep breaks the world record for the biggest shorn fleece at 40 kg (88 lb) near Canberra, Australia
1.4-ton WWII bomb is defused in Frankfurt, Germany, with 60,000 people evacuated, the largest postwar evacuation
Argentine President Mauricio Macri announces new austerity measures, including closing half of all government ministries, in a televised address
The 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup is the 34th edition of the international sport climbing competition series organised by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), held in 12 locations.
American pop singer Sabrina Carpenter’s sixth studio album “Short n’ Sweet" becomes her first to top the Billboard album chart [1]
Elevador da Glória funicular hill tram speeds out of control and crashes into a wall killing 16 in Lisbon, Portugal [1]
Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian austrian-born german automotive engineer, inventor, known for austrian-born german automotive engineer, inventor, was born on 1875-09-03.
Carl David Anderson, American experimental physicist, known for american experimental physicist, was born on 1905-09-03.
Whitey Bulger gangster and crime boss, known for american gangster and crime boss, was born on 1929-09-03. James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr.
Mario Draghi is born
Charlie Sheen, American film and television actor, known for american film and television actor, was born on 1966-09-03.
Hank Thompson, American musician, known for american country music singer-songwriter, was born on 1925-09-03.
Steve Jones is born
Shaun White, American athlete, known for american snowboarder and skateboarder, was born on 1987-09-03. Shaun Roger White is an American former professional snowboarder and skateboarder.
Sean McColl athlete, known for canadian rock climber, was born on 1988-09-03. Sean McColl is a professional rock climber from North Vancouver, Canada.
Dominic Thiem, Austrian athlete, known for austrian tennis player, was born on 1994-09-03. Dominic Thiem is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No.
San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus
Battle of Ain Jalut: Mamluks of Egypt defeat the Mongol army led by Kitbuqa in the Levant, often labeled a turning point in world history, saving the Arabic-Islamic civilization from destruction
The Utrecht war of 1481–83 (Dutch: Stichtse Oorlog or Driejarige Oorlog, German: Utrechter Stiftsfehde) was a diocesan feud in the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht between 1481 and 1483, influenced by the...
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication on 24 July 1567. The...
The Battle of Rain took place on 15 April 1632 near Rain in Bavaria during the Thirty Years' War.
The Battle of Dunbar was fought between the English New Model Army, under Oliver Cromwell, and a Scottish army commanded by David Leslie on 3 September 1650 near Dunbar, Scotland.
Battle of Worcester: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army destroys the English royalist force, composed mainly of Scots, in the last battle of the English Civil War
Turkish troops break through the defenses of Vienna
King William's War in America ends with the Treaty of Ryswick, the peace treaty ending the Nine Years' War between France and the Grand Alliance, reverting to conditions that existed before the war
First major group of Swiss German colonists reaches North and South Carolina
Britain, France, Hanover, and Prussia sign the Covenant of Hanover
William IV, Prince of Orange, is installed as Stadtholder of Friesland
The Battle of Cooch's Bridge is fought in Newark, Delaware, the only American Revolutionary War battle fought in Delaware
Earl d'Orvilliers (French-Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
The Treaty of Paris is signed in Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America
The new French Constitution, declaring France a constitutional monarchy, is passed by the National Assembly during the French Revolution
Battle of St. George's Caye: Week-long battle begins between the Spanish Empire and Great Britain off the coast of Belize
The world's first factory to preserve food in tinned iron containers (Donkin, Hall, and Gamble) opens in London, England, to supply food to the Royal Navy
USS Vincennes leaves New York to become the first warship to circumnavigate the globe
Rebellious enslaved people set fire to Paramaribo, Suriname
The Sun, the first successful penny press tabloid daily newspaper in the US, begins publishingin New York City
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm, Sweden
Indian Wars: 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village in Nebraska, killing 100 men, women, and children
The Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to...
The Third Battle of Winchester, also known as the Battle of Opequon or Battle of Opequon Creek, was an American Civil War battle fought near Winchester, Virginia, on September 19, 1864.
The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy)...
Heinz food producer Henry John Heinz marries Sarah Sloan Young
The Congress of the State of Mexico elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa with the title of "Villa de Juárez"
Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian austrian-born german automotive engineer, inventor, known for austrian-born german automotive engineer, inventor, was born on 1875-09-03.
British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sinks in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle, killing 645 people
Cotton pickers organize a union and stage a strike in Texas
With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa
Russian troops now control both sides of the Amur River on the Russo-Manchurian boundary
American yacht Reliance, the largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built, defends America's Cup for the NYYC, beating UK challenger Shamrock III off the New Jersey shore for a 3-0 series win
For the first time in Olympic Games history, there is a throw-off in the discus final after Americans Martin Sheridan and Ralph Rose tie with a best throw of 128 ft 10½ in (39.28 m) in St. Louis; Sheridan wins with 127 ft 10¼ in (38.97 m)
Carl David Anderson, American experimental physicist, known for american experimental physicist, was born on 1905-09-03.
After an eight-minute argument over an umpire call, the NY Highlanders win by forfeit over the Philadelphia A's; the Highlanders achieve an MLB record fifth doubleheader sweep on consecutive days
Arnold Schoenberg's "Fünf Orchesterstücke" (Five Pieces for Orchestra) premieres in London at a Promenade Concert
The First Battle of the Marne or known in France as the Miracle on the Marne (French: miracle de la Marne) was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914.
Battle of Verdun: French counterattacks on German flanks push their frontline further from the town
A German air campaign of the First World War was carried out against Britain. After several attacks by seaplanes, the main campaign began in January 1915 with airships.
The Hindenburg Line (Siegfriedstellung, Siegfried Position) was a German defensive fortification built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front in France during the First World War.
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, (baptismal name Jan Christiaan Smuts, 24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher.
American journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) weds American Hadley Richardson (29) in Bay Township, Michigan; divorce in 1927
The Communist Party of Belgium was a political party in Belgium from 1921 to 1989. The youth wing of KPB/PCB was known as the Communist Youth of Belgium.
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)
Dorothy Donnelly's "Poppy" premieres in New York City
The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes in a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14; 29 survive
Hank Thompson, American musician, known for american country music singer-songwriter, was born on 1925-09-03.
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers a mold later identified as penicillin while sorting through petri dishes containing colonies of the bacteria Staphylococcus, at St. Mary's Hospital in London [1]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
Whitey Bulger gangster and crime boss, known for american gangster and crime boss, was born on 1929-09-03. James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr.
The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, arrived at a large island in the western Atlantic Ocean, later known as the...
Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first to reach Communism Peak (7,495 m), the highest point in the Soviet Union
Tunisia's movement for independence begins
Andrew Varipapa sets a bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
The 1940 Olympic site changes from Tokyo, Japan, to Helsinki, Finland, because of the Second Sino-Japanese War; WWII causes eventual cancellation
World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after the invasion of Poland; France follows six hours later, quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada
German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, including 28 Americans
39.4 cm of rainfall in Sapulpa, Oklahoma (state record)
Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World...
Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia), officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula...
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (15) is among the prisoners on the 68th and final transport of Dutch Jews sent from Westerbrooksent to Auschwitz concentration camp [1]
The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium,...
Japan participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis. World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War encapsulated a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan,...
New York Yankees total 18 hits, all singles, to rout the Boston Red Sox 11-2 at Fenway Park
Władysław Gomułka is deposed as General Secretary of the Polish Workers' Party
Mario Draghi is born
Edvard Beneš, Czech czechoslovak politician, known for czechoslovak politician, died on 1948-09-03.
Fire in Chiang-king, China, kills 7,000 people
Giuseppe "Nino" Farina wins the inaugural Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship by winning the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in an Alfa Romeo, finishing three points ahead of Juan Manuel Fangio
Search for Tomorrow is an American television soap opera. It began its run on CBS on September 3, 1951, and concluded on NBC, 35 years later, on December 26, 1986. Set in the fictional town of...
The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (commonly known as the European Convention on Human Rights or ECHR) is a supranational international treaty designed to...
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist...
KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Steve Jones is born
Brooklyn Dodgers play their final game in Jersey City, a 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies; 11-4 record in New Jersey
Livio Berruti is an Italian former athlete who was the winner of the 200-meter dash in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He won five medals, at individual level, and three medals with the national relay team...
Athol Fugard's first major play "The Blood Knot" premieres at Dorkay House, Johannesburg, as the first stage performance with an interracial cast in South Africa [1]
The 1964 race riots in Singapore were a series of communal disturbances and racial conflicts between the Malay and Chinese communities in Singapore.
The Dominican Republic is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Charlie Sheen, American film and television actor, known for american film and television actor, was born on 1966-09-03.
Sweden begins driving on the right-hand side of the road (Dagen H)
What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States, between 1950 and 1967, on CBS, originally in black and white and later in color, with subsequent American revivals.
After playing a NL record 1,117 consecutive MLB games, Chicago Cubs outfielder Billy Williams asks to sit out
A baby girl and an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier are killed in separate shooting incidents in Northern Ireland
General Walters ends his term as acting director of the CIA
Jerry Lewis's 8th Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
Viking 2 soft-lands on Mars (Utopia) and returns photos
Japanese baseball superstar Sadaharu Oh hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron as the all-time career leader in professional baseball
Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
Hurricane Hugo was a powerful tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread destruction across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern United States in September 1989.
Jerry Lewis's 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000
Longest MLB game in Fenway Park history is suspended after 19 innings with Seattle Mariners 7, Boston Red Sox 7; Mariners win 8-7 in the 20th inning the following morning
Anker Jørgensen government in Denmark resigns
28-year-old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois State Lottery
Jerry Lewis's 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566
20th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-I): Discovery 6 returns to Earth
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
Shaun White, American athlete, known for american snowboarder and skateboarder, was born on 1987-09-03. Shaun Roger White is an American former professional snowboarder and skateboarder.
An estimated 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers are killed by Iraq by this date, many using chemical weapons, in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War
Sean McColl athlete, known for canadian rock climber, was born on 1988-09-03. Sean McColl is a professional rock climber from North Vancouver, Canada.
Ilyushin-62 crashes into a residential area of Havana, killing 170 people
Helen Hudson sings the national anthem in the 26th park of the year, San Diego
Jerry Lewis's 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
Jerry Lewis's 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368
Miami routs Georgia Southern 56-0, breaking the NCAA football record with its 58th consecutive home victory, surpassing the previous record of 57 straight home wins held by Alabama, who achieved this streak between 1963 and 1982
Dominic Thiem, Austrian athlete, known for austrian tennis player, was born on 1994-09-03. Dominic Thiem is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No.
Carolina Panthers lose their debut NFL game in overtime 23-20 to the Atlanta Falcons in front of 58,808 fans at Georgia Dome
David Slowinski and Paul Gage discover 2^1257787 - 1, the 34th known Mersenne prime
Vietnam Airlines Flight 815, operated by a Tupolev TU-134, crashes on approach to Phnom Penh Airport, killing 65 with one survivor
In just his 11th start, St. Louis Cardinals' rookie pitcher Bud Smith no-hits the San Diego Padres, 4-0
Beslan school massacre, an Islamist terrorist attack in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children
After beating South Africa the previous weekend, New Zealand clinches its 6th Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 34-24 win over Australia in Auckland; All Blacks winger Doug Howlett crosses for 3 tries
Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie wins the WNBA Most Valuable Player award, joining Sheryl Swoopes as the league's only three-time winners
Panama Canal's "Third Set of Locks" expansion project begins with a massive initial explosion under Paraíso Hill, watched by thousands of people
The new Oklahoma City NBA franchise announces the team will be named the "Thunder" in reference to powerful storms in the area
Pedro Jaime Martínez is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1992 to 2009 for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox...
Pop singer Cheryl Cole (27) divorces England soccer player Ashley Cole (29) due to unreasonable behavior after 3 and a half years of marriage
New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
The Sinai insurgency was an insurgency campaign in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt launched by Islamist militants against Egyptian security forces, which also included attacks on civilians.
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.
Chris the sheep breaks the world record for the biggest shorn fleece at 40 kg (88 lb) near Canberra, Australia
1.4-ton WWII bomb is defused in Frankfurt, Germany, with 60,000 people evacuated, the largest postwar evacuation
Argentine President Mauricio Macri announces new austerity measures, including closing half of all government ministries, in a televised address
The 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup is the 34th edition of the international sport climbing competition series organised by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), held in 12 locations.
American pop singer Sabrina Carpenter’s sixth studio album “Short n’ Sweet" becomes her first to top the Billboard album chart [1]
Elevador da Glória funicular hill tram speeds out of control and crashes into a wall killing 16 in Lisbon, Portugal [1]