What happened this day in history September 3

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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