Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 3
This is a list of selected September 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Malcolm Campbell -
Giuseppe Farina
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Flag Day in Australia; | unreferenced section |
| ; Armed Forces Day in Taiwan | refimprove |
| 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. | refimprove sections |
| 590 – Gregory I became pope, the first one to come from a monastic background. | unreferenced section |
| 1189 – Richard the Lionheart was crowned King of England in Westminster. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1260 – The Mongols suffered their first decisive defeat at the hands of Egyptian Mamluks in the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine. | refimprove section, original research |
| 1783 – The Peace of Paris formally ended the states of war between United States, France, Spain and Great Britain. | refimprove section |
| 1838 – Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery, and went on to become famous as an abolitionist. | date not cited, refimprove section |
| 1925 – The USS Shenandoah, the U.S. Navy's first rigid airship, was torn apart in a squall line over Ohio. | refimprove section |
| 1967 – Dagen H: All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads in Sweden while drivers switched from the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side. | refimprove |
| 1976 – The NASA Viking 2 spacecraft landed at Utopia Planitia on Mars. | unreferenced section |
| 2004 – Russian security forces stormed a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, to force an end to the three-day hostage crisis, in which at least 334 of the over 1,100 hostages were killed. | expansion |
| Frank Capra (d. 1991) | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 36 BC – The Sicilian revolt against the Second Triumvirate of the Roman Republic ended when the fleet of Sextus Pompey, the rebel leader, was defeated at the Battle of Naulochus.
- 863 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine Empire decisively defeated the Emirate of Melitene in the Battle of Lalakaon, beginning the era of Byzantine ascendancy.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The British Army and their Hessian allies defeated an American militia in the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.
- 1901 – The National Flag of Australia, a Blue Ensign defaced with the Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atop the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
- 1935 – On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
- 1941 – The Holocaust: SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch first used the pesticide Zyklon B to execute Soviet POWs en masse at Auschwitz; eventually it was used to kill about 1.2 million people.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors.
- 1991 – A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
- Born/died: Edward Coke (d. 1634) · Prudence Crandall (b. 1803) · Percy Chapman (b. 1900) · Tereska Torrès (b. 1920) · Gaston Thorn (b. 1928) · Pauline Kael (d. 2001)
- 1651 – English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War.
- 1878 – The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames after colliding (pictured) with a collier, killing more than 600 people.
- 1918 – The Bolshevik government of Russia published the first official announcement of the Red Terror, a period of repression against political opponents.
- 1950 – Winning the Italian Grand Prix, Giuseppe Farina became the first Formula One world champion.
- 2001 – The Troubles: On the first day of the school year, Protestant loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic primary school for girls in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Umar al-Aqta (d. 863) · Macfarlane Burnet (b. 1899) · Scott Carson (b. 1985)