3rd September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1859
  • "Birth of Jean Jaurès, French socialist leader"
  • 1875
  • Germany
  • "Birth of Ferdinand Porsche, sports car designer"
• event
  • 1650
  • Battle of Dunbar
  • 1650
  • Great Britain
  • "Battle of Dunbar, Scots defeated by Cromwell's forces" more
  • 1651
  • Battle of Worcester
  • 1666
  • Great Britain
  • Great Fire of London Rages
  • 1752
  • "Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England and Scotland, making this Sep 14 – 'Give us back our 11 days!' "
  • 1783
  • Treaty of Versailles (Britain/US)
  • 1783
  • "Great Britain and the United States sign the Treaty of Paris, officially ended the American Revolutionary War."
  • 1833
  • The ‘New York Sun’ newspaper was first published – the beginning of the ‘penny press’.
  • 1916
  • WWI: the first Zeppelin was shot down over north-east London
  • 1928
  • Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic effects of penicillin (by accident).
  • 1939
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany at 5pm
  • 1939
  • Britain declares War on Germany - WWII begins
  • 1939
  • "Britain, Australia, New Zealand and France declared war on Germany"
  • 1967
  • Sweden changed from driving on the left to driving on the right
  • 1976
  • United States
  • American space ship Viking II touched down on Mars
  • 1978
  • India
  • "Floods devastated northern India, with at least two million people made homeless."
  • 1984
  • Philippines
  • "Typhoon Ike hit the southern Philippines, killing more than 4,000 people"
  • 1994
  • "China and Russia signed a peace agreement, pledging not to use force or aim nuclear missiles at each other"
• Death
  • 1658
  • "Death of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England."
  • 1856
  • "Birth of Louis Sullivan, American architect"
  • 1962
  • United States
  • "Death of E.E. Cummings, poet, whose name and initials are usually spelt in lowercase, something he apparently didn't condone." more
  • 1993
  • "Death of David Brown, British agricultural engineer and industrialist ."
  • 1997
  • "Death of Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist (Author of 'Man's Search for Meaning')"