About September 3
September 3, 2024 is the 247th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 119 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 148 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.
- 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.
- 1658 –Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
- 1798 –The week long battle of St. George’s Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
- 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.
- 1812 –24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
- 1855 –Indian Wars: in Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1939 –World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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