Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 3
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September 3: Independence Day in Qatar (1971).
- 301: San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.
- 1189: Richard the Lionheart was crowned King of England in Westminster.
- 1260: Mamluk forces defeated a Mongol army in Palestine in the Battle of Ain Jalut, marking the point of maximum westward expansion of the Mongol Empire.
- 1783: The signing of the Treaty of Paris formally ended the American Revolutionary War.
- 1976: The Viking 2 spacecraft landed on Mars and took the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
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