About September 3
September 3, 2025 is the 246th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 119 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Virgo is the sun 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 167 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 3
- 301 –San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world’s oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
- 863 –Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
- 1189 –Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard “the Lionheart”) is crowned at Westminster.
- 1651 –Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: the war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1803 –English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
- 1874 –The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of “Villa de Juárez”.
- 1914 –William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
- 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.
- 1933 –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).
- 1935 –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
- 1941 –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.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins.
- 1944 –Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
- 1951 –The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
- 1954 –The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
- 1954 –The People’s Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
- 1976 –Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
- 1987 –In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
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