Post by farmgal on Sept 2, 2010 21:20:55 GMT -5
September 3 is the 246th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 119 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days left until election day November 02, 2010 60
Days left until election day November 06, 2012 795
590 - St. Gregory the Great was consecrated the 64th Catholic pope, ruling 14 years. Gregory's administration took responsibility for converting the Anglo-Saxon tribes in England, chiefly through the work of St. Augustine of Canterbury.
863 - Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
1189 - Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster.
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.
1666 - The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
1752 - This date became September 14th, when Great Britain (including Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the American colonies) officially implemented the Gregorian Calendar (developed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to replace the Julian calendar). Thus this day never happened nor the next 10. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives
1777 - Cooch's Bridge -- Skirmish of American Revolutionary War in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
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.
1803 - English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1812 - 24 settlers are killed in the grisly Pigeon Roost Massacre.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_Roost_State_Historic_Site#Pigeon_Roost_Massacre
1826 - USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1833 - NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
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.
1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grattan_Massacre
1861 - American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
1912 - World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1914 - Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
1916 - Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun
1917 - Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
1918 - 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
1925 - Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore152.htm
1932 - Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US tennis title
1933 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union -- Communism Peak (7495 m).
1934 - In London, Evangeline Cory Booth, 69, the seventh child of founder William Booth (1829-1912), became the fourth elected commander and the first woman general of the Salvation Army.
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
1939 - World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
1940 - 1st showing of high definition color TV
1940 - U.S. gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1941 - Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
1942 - World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Lakhva Ghetto.
1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
1944 - Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US tennis title
1945 - Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
1946 - Founder Sidney N. Correll established United World Mission. This interdenominational agency focuses on evangelism, church planting and Christian education in 13 world countries.
1951 - The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
1954 - The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
1954 - Pope Pius X canonized a saint
1957 - Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out
1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1967 - Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution
1970 - Billy Williams ends then longest NL consecutive streak at 1,117 games
1971 - John Lennon leaves the UK for NYC, never to return
1974 - NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires
1975 - Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1976 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
1978 - Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
1994 - Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
2004 - Beslan school hostage crisis: Day 3: The Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children.
Births:
1675 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
1803 - Prudence Crandall founded school for "young ladies of colour"
1811 - John Humphrey Noyes Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
1820 - George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)
1856 - Louis Sullivan, American architect, "father of modernism," considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper (d. 1924)
1860 - Edward Albert Filene merchant, established US credit union movement
1897 - Sally Benson, American writer (Junior Miss, Meet Me in St. Louis) (d. 1972)
1905 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, discoverer of positron and muon (d. 1991)
1907 - Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977)
1910 – Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (To Tell the Truth) (d. 2007)
1910 - Dorothy Maynor (d 1996) was an American soprano, concert singer, and the founder of the Harlem School of the Arts.
1911 - Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
1913 - Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964
1914 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, first female governor of Washington (d. 1994)
1916 - Eddie Stanky, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1918 - Helen Wagner, American actress (As the World Turns) (d. 2010)
1921 - Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner (d. 1966)
1923 - Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois)
1925 - Hank Thompson, American singer (d. 2007)
1926 – Alison Lurie, American Pulitzer Prize winning novelist (Foreign Affairs)
1931 - Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler (d. 1973)
1931 - Dick Motta, American basketball coach
1932 - Eileen Brennan, American actress
1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1944 - Sherwood Clark "Woody" Spring retired United States Army Colonel and former NASA astronaut
1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor
Deaths:
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
1808 - John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1961 - Robert E. Gross, American aviation businessman (b. 1897)
1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
1964 - Stewart Hall Holbrook (b 1893) American lumberjack, writer, and popular historian. His writings focused on what he called the "Far Corner": Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. A self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian, his topics included Ethan Allen, the railroads, the timber industry, the Wobblies, and eccentrics of the Pacific Northwest.
1967 - James Dunn, American actor (A Treen Grows in Brooklyn) (b. 1905)
1967 - Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman(b.1893)
1969 - John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
1970 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
1970 - "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
1974 - Harry Partch (b 1901) American composer and instrument creator.
1980 - Duncan Renaldo, American actor (Cisco Kid) (b. 1904)
1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
1994 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies) (b. 1918)
2000 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (Becket) (b. 1914)
2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
2002 - W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
2003 - Paul Jennings Hill (1954) first person in the United States to be executed for murdering a doctor who performed abortions.
2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
2008 - Donald Blakeslee, American aviator, led 4th Fighter Group during World War II. (b. 1917)
Christian Feast Day:
Marinus
Pope Gregory I
Remaclus
September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_03
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
There are 119 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days left until election day November 02, 2010 60
Days left until election day November 06, 2012 795
590 - St. Gregory the Great was consecrated the 64th Catholic pope, ruling 14 years. Gregory's administration took responsibility for converting the Anglo-Saxon tribes in England, chiefly through the work of St. Augustine of Canterbury.
863 - Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
1189 - Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster.
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.
1666 - The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
1752 - This date became September 14th, when Great Britain (including Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the American colonies) officially implemented the Gregorian Calendar (developed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to replace the Julian calendar). Thus this day never happened nor the next 10. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives
1777 - Cooch's Bridge -- Skirmish of American Revolutionary War in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
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.
1803 - English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1812 - 24 settlers are killed in the grisly Pigeon Roost Massacre.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_Roost_State_Historic_Site#Pigeon_Roost_Massacre
1826 - USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1833 - NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
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.
1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grattan_Massacre
1861 - American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
1912 - World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1914 - Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
1916 - Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun
1917 - Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
1918 - 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
1925 - Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore152.htm
1932 - Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US tennis title
1933 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union -- Communism Peak (7495 m).
1934 - In London, Evangeline Cory Booth, 69, the seventh child of founder William Booth (1829-1912), became the fourth elected commander and the first woman general of the Salvation Army.
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
1939 - World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
1940 - 1st showing of high definition color TV
1940 - U.S. gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1941 - Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
1942 - World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Lakhva Ghetto.
1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
1944 - Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US tennis title
1945 - Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
1946 - Founder Sidney N. Correll established United World Mission. This interdenominational agency focuses on evangelism, church planting and Christian education in 13 world countries.
1951 - The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
1954 - The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
1954 - Pope Pius X canonized a saint
1957 - Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out
1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1967 - Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution
1970 - Billy Williams ends then longest NL consecutive streak at 1,117 games
1971 - John Lennon leaves the UK for NYC, never to return
1974 - NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires
1975 - Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1976 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
1978 - Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
1994 - Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
2004 - Beslan school hostage crisis: Day 3: The Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children.
Births:
1675 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
1803 - Prudence Crandall founded school for "young ladies of colour"
1811 - John Humphrey Noyes Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
1820 - George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)
1856 - Louis Sullivan, American architect, "father of modernism," considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper (d. 1924)
1860 - Edward Albert Filene merchant, established US credit union movement
1897 - Sally Benson, American writer (Junior Miss, Meet Me in St. Louis) (d. 1972)
1905 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, discoverer of positron and muon (d. 1991)
1907 - Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977)
1910 – Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (To Tell the Truth) (d. 2007)
1910 - Dorothy Maynor (d 1996) was an American soprano, concert singer, and the founder of the Harlem School of the Arts.
1911 - Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
1913 - Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964
1914 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, first female governor of Washington (d. 1994)
1916 - Eddie Stanky, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1918 - Helen Wagner, American actress (As the World Turns) (d. 2010)
1921 - Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner (d. 1966)
1923 - Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois)
1925 - Hank Thompson, American singer (d. 2007)
1926 – Alison Lurie, American Pulitzer Prize winning novelist (Foreign Affairs)
1931 - Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler (d. 1973)
1931 - Dick Motta, American basketball coach
1932 - Eileen Brennan, American actress
1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1944 - Sherwood Clark "Woody" Spring retired United States Army Colonel and former NASA astronaut
1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor
Deaths:
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
1808 - John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1961 - Robert E. Gross, American aviation businessman (b. 1897)
1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
1964 - Stewart Hall Holbrook (b 1893) American lumberjack, writer, and popular historian. His writings focused on what he called the "Far Corner": Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. A self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian, his topics included Ethan Allen, the railroads, the timber industry, the Wobblies, and eccentrics of the Pacific Northwest.
1967 - James Dunn, American actor (A Treen Grows in Brooklyn) (b. 1905)
1967 - Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman(b.1893)
1969 - John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
1970 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
1970 - "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
1974 - Harry Partch (b 1901) American composer and instrument creator.
1980 - Duncan Renaldo, American actor (Cisco Kid) (b. 1904)
1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
1994 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies) (b. 1918)
2000 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (Becket) (b. 1914)
2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
2002 - W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
2003 - Paul Jennings Hill (1954) first person in the United States to be executed for murdering a doctor who performed abortions.
2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
2008 - Donald Blakeslee, American aviator, led 4th Fighter Group during World War II. (b. 1917)
Christian Feast Day:
Marinus
Pope Gregory I
Remaclus
September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_03
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi