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
- 36 BC –In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
- 590 –Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great).
- 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.
- 1658 –Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
- 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.
- 1812 –24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
- 1874 –The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of “Villa de Juárez”.
- 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.
- 1944 –Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
- 1950 –“Nino” Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers’ champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
- 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.
- 1967 –Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
- 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.
- 1994 –Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People’s Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
- 1997 –Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev TU-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
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