Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 3

This is a list of selected September 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Viking 2 photo
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  Signing of Treaty of Paris
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  Dagen H in Stockholm
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  A drawing of the collier 'Bywell Castle' bearing down upon the Princess Alice
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  Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
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  Photos of victims of the Beslan school hostage crisis
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  Oliver Cromwell
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  Richard the Lionheart
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  title=Wreckage of the USS Shenandoah

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Flag Day in Australia;	unreferenced section
; Armed Forces Day in Taiwan	refimprove
301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.	refimprove sections
1189 – Richard the Lionheart (pictured) was crowned King of England in Westminster.	refimprove section
1260 – The Mongols suffered their first decisive defeat at the hands of Egyptian Mamluks in the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine.	refimprove section
1783 – The Peace of Paris formally ended the states of war between United States, France, Spain and Great Britain.	refimprove section
1838 – Future American abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery.	date not cited
1878 – The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames after colliding with a collier, killing over 600 people.	refimprove section
1925 – The USS Shenandoah, the U.S. Navy's first rigid airship, was torn apart in a squall line over Ohio.	refimprove section
1967 – Dagen H: All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads in Sweden while workers switched them from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right.	refimprove
1976 – The NASA Viking 2 spacecraft landed at Utopia Planitia on Mars.	unreferenced section
2004 – Russian security forces stormed a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, to force an end to the three-day hostage crisis, in which at least 334 of the over 1,100 hostages were killed.	expansion

Eligible

• 590 – Gregory I became pope, the first one to come from a monastic background.
• 863 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine Empire decisively defeated the Emirate of Melitene in the Battle of Lalakaon, beginning the era of Byzantine ascendancy.
• 1651 – English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the Third English Civil War.
• 1901 – The National Flag of Australia, a Blue Ensign defaced with the Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atop the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
• 1914 – World War I: The German army began an assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
• 1941 – The Holocaust: SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch first used the pesticide Zyklon B to execute Soviet POWs en masse at Auschwitz; eventually it was used to kill about 1.2 million people.
• 1950 – Winning the Italian Grand Prix, Giuseppe Farina became the first Formula One world champion.
• 1991 – A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
• Born/died: Frank Capra (d. 1991) · Pauline Kael (d. 2001)

September 3: Independence Day in Qatar (1971)

Malcolm Campbell

• 36 BC – Sicilian revolt: A victory by the fleet of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa over that of Sextus Pompeius in the Battle of Naulochus ended Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The British Army and their Hessian allies defeated an American militia in the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.
• 1935 – On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell (pictured) became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
• 1942 – The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors.
• 2001 – The Troubles: Protestant loyalists began picketing a Catholic primary school for girls in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Edward Coke (d. 1634) · Prudence Crandall (b. 1803) · Tereska Torrès (b. 1920)

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