SomeFacts | September 3

On this day - September 3

In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of ...

301 — San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the ...

590 — Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great).

673 — King Wamba of the Visigoths puts down a revolt by Hilderic, ...

863 — Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an ...

1189 — Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the ...

1260 — The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in ...

1335 — At the congress of Visegrád Charles I of Hungary mediates a ...

1411 — The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman ...

1650 — Victory over the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar opens the ...

1651 — The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the ...

1658 — The death of Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell becomes Lord ...

1666 — The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London.

1777 — American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's ...

1783 — American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of ...

1798 — The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between ...

1812 — Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre ...

1838 — Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.

1843 — King Otto of Greece is forced to grant a constitution ...

1855 — American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United ...

1861 — American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades ...

1870 — Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a ...

1875 — The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after ...

1878 — Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice ...

1879 — Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir ...

1895 — John Brallier becomes the first openly paid professional ...

1911 — A fire that started on Fraser's Million Dollar Pier ...

1914 — World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German ...

1914 — French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate ...

1914 — Wilhelm, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six ...

1916 — World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship ...

1925 — USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built ...

1933 — Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point ...

1935 — Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour ...

1939 — World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval ...

1939 — World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and ...

1941 — The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the ...

1942 — World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, ...

1943 — World War II: British and Canadian troops land on the Italian ...

1944 — Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the ...

1945 — A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory ...

1950 — "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One ...

1954 — The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic ...

1967 — Dagen H in Sweden: Traffic changes from driving on the left to ...

1971 — Qatar becomes an independent state.

1976 — Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at ...

1978 — During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot ...

1981 — The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...

1987 — In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste ...

1989 — Varig Flight 254 crashes in the Amazon rainforest near São ...

1989 — Cubana de Aviación Flight 9046 crashes into a residential area ...

1997 — Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on ...

2001 — In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, ...

2004 — Beslan school siege results in over 330 fatalities, including ...

2010 — After taking off from Dubai International Airport, UPS ...

2016 — The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the ...

2017 — North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.