Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
100051September 3Event1798 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
100052September 3Event1802 – William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
100053September 3Event1812 – Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
100054September 3Event1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
100055September 3Event1843 – King Otto of Greece is forced to grant a constitution following an uprising in Athens.
100056September 3Event1855 – American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
100057September 3Event1861 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
100058September 3Event1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
100059September 3Event1874 – The congress of the State of Mexico elevates Naucalpan to the category of villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
100060September 3Event1875 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.
100061September 3Event1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
100062September 3Event1879 – Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the The Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout th
100063September 3Event1895 – John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12–0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
100064September 3Event1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
100065September 3Event1914 – French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
100066September 3Event1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
100067September 3Event1916 – World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
100068September 3Event1925 – USS Shenandoah, 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.
100069September 3Event1933 – Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
100070September 3Event1935 – Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a 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.
100071September 3Event1939 – World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
100072September 3Event1939 – World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war. This also marks the beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic.
100073September 3Event1941 – 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.
100074September 3Event1942 – 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.
100075September 3Event1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
100076September 3Event1944 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
100077September 3Event1945 – A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
100078September 3Event1950 – "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
100079September 3Event1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
100080September 3Event1954 – The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.

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