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).
- 1260 –The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
- 1651 –Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
- 1666 –The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
- 1802 –William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
- 1803 –English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
- 1838 –Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
- 1874 –The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of “Villa de Juárez”.
- 1878 –Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat SS Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
- 1914 –William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
- 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.
- 1945 –Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1997 –Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev TU-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
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