About September 3
September 3, 2023 is the 246th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 119 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 160 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 3
- 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.
- 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.
- 1650 –Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.
- 1651 –Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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