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September 3 is the
246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the
Gregorian calendar.
There are 119 days remaining until the end of the year:
1878: Over 640 die when
the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle
in the River Thames.
1950: "Nino" Farina
becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950
Italian Grand Prix.
1783: The Treaty of Paris
between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the
Revolutionary War.
1929: The Dow Jones
industrial average closed at 381.17, its pre-crash high.
1939: Britain and France
declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
1967: Nguyen Van Thieu was
elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
1994: China and Russia
pledged they would no longer target nuclear missiles at or use force
against each other.
1997: Arizona Gov. Fife
Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up
his collapsing real estate empire. (The conviction was overturned in
1999.)
2004: A three-day hostage
siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen
militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more
than 330 people were killed, most of them children.
2005: President George W.
Bush ordered more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast as his
administration intensified efforts to send aid to the hurricane-ravaged
region in the face of criticism it did not act quickly enough.
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1935: Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches
304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah,
becoming the first person to drive
anautomobile over 300 mph |
2007: Millionaire
adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, vanished after taking off in a
single-engine plane in western Nevada |
