September 03 :: Historical Events

Events

• 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.


• 301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.


• 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: Battle of Dunbar (1650)


• 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 burnt down in the Great Fire of London


• 1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.


• 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. America is officially free from Britain


• 1798 - Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.


• 1838 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.


• 1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.


• 1861 - American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.


• 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, which will result 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".


• 1878 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat 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.


• 1929 - Dow Jones Industrial Average reached all time high at the time (381.17), which was shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.


• 1933 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495 m).


• 1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph


• 1939 - World War II begins when France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, starting the Allies.


• 1942 - World War II: Uprising of the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva occurs.


• 1943 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.


• 1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.


• 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 begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.


• 1954 - The German U-Boat U-505 began 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 Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.


• 1994 - Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.


• 1995 - eBay founded.


• 1997 - A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.


• 2004 - The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.

September 02 :: Historical Events

Events

• 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.


• 44 BC - The first of Cicero’s Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.


• 31 BC - Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.


• 1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.


• 1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.


• 1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.


• 1789 - The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.


• 1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.


• 1807 - Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.


• 1833 - Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.


• 1859 - A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.


• 1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.


• 1864 - American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.


• 1867 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she's called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.


• 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces take French Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.


• 1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.


• 1898 - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establishing British dominance in the Sudan.


• 1901 - Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.


• 1925 - The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.


• 1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.


• 1939 - World War II: Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.


• 1945 - Combat in World War II ends in the Pacific Theater: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.


• 1945 - Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).


• 1958 - U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.


• 1963 - CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.


• 1967 - The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.


• 1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.


• 1970 - NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation was re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.


• 1990 - Transnistria unilaterally proclaimed as Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.


• 1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.


• 1996 - A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.


• 1998 - Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.


• 1998 - The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.


• 2005 - The Natural Bridge, a tourist attraction in Aruba, collapses after thousands of years in good condition.