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 247th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 119 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 21, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,755,360 minutes 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 ‘dihectatetracontaheptagon’ 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 148 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 4,274 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 3 Historical Events
590 –
Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great).
1650 –
Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.
1798 –
The week long battle of St. George’s Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
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.
1870 –
Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
1925 –
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the United States’ first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
1942 –
World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva, in present-day Belarus.
1967 –
Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
1994 –
Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People’s Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
Who were born on September 3?
1675 –
Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
1781 –
Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Joséphine de Beauharnais and adoptive son of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1824)
1910 –
Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
1933 –
Basil Butcher, West Indian cricketer
1943 –
Frank Lister, English footballer
1964 –
Spike Feresten, American television writer
1975 –
Cristobal Huet, French ice hockey player
1985 –
Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
1985 –
Scott Carson, English footballer
1986 –
Shaun White, American snowboarder and skateboarder
Who died on September 3?
1653 –
Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (b. 1588)
1722 –
Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks (b. 1646)
1903 –
Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
1961 –
Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
1963 –
Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907)
1964 –
Stewart Holbrook, American writer (b. 1893)
1967 –
Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman(b.1893)
1970 –
Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson, American singer and gutarist (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
1986 –
Beryl Markham, Kenyan horse trainer, adventurer, aviatrix and memoir writer (b. 1902)
2000 –
Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
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