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).
- 1658 –Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
- 1666 –The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
- 1798 –The week long battle of St. George’s Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People’s Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
- 1999 –An 87-automobile pile-up happens on Highway 401 freeway just East of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair.
- 2004 –Beslan school hostage crisis – day 3: the Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children.
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