What are the important events that happened on September 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 3: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 3 is the 246^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 119 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 21, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,756,857,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontahexagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 167 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,639 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 3 Historical Events

• 863 –
  Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
• 1666 –
  The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
• 1802 –
  William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
• 1812 –
  24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
• 1914 –
  William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
• 1939 –
  World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
• 1941 –
  The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
• 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 –
  The People’s Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
• 1971 –
  Qatar becomes an independent state

Who were born on September 3?

• 1856 –
  Louis Sullivan, American architect (d. 1924)
• 1914 –
  Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
• 1929 –
  Armand Vaillancourt, Canadian sculptor and painter
• 1941 –
  Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
• 1957 –
  Garth Ancier, American television executive
• 1959 –
  Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1973 –
  Zita Urbonaitė, Lithuanian road cyclist (d. 2008)
• 1980 –
  Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 –
  Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
• 1983 –
  Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player

Who died on September 3?

• 1722 –
  Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks (b. 1646)
• 1729 –
  Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
• 1914 –
  Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
• 1948 –
  Edvard Beneš, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
• 1969 –
  John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
• 1970 –
  Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson, American singer and gutarist (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
• 1994 –
  Major Lance, American singer (b. 1939)
• 2001 –
  Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
• 2007 –
  Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
• 2008 –
  Donald Blakeslee, American World War II aviator (b. 1917)