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.
  • 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.
  • 1802 –
    William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
  • 1838 –
    Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
  • 1870 –
    Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
  • 1874 –
    The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of “Villa de Juárez”.
  • 1875 –
    The first official game of Polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British Ranchers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1951 –
    The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
  • 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.
  • 1971 –
    Qatar becomes an independent state
  • 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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