September 3
Today in America's Present Past
1697 | Indian Wars: King William’s War in America ends with the Treaty of Ryswick, ending a nine-year war.
1752 | Britain and its colonies (including America) adopt the Georgian Calendar (losing 11 days).
1783 | War of Independence: Treaty of Paris, ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America.
1803 | Educator Prudence Crandall was born.
1811 | Cleric John Humphrey Noyes was born.
1820 | Entrepreneur George Hearst was born.
1820 | Architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe died.
1826 | The USS Vincennes leaves New York to become the first warship to circumnavigate the globe.
1833 | The New York Sun started publishing the world’s first daily newspaper.
1838 | Activist and author Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery.
1855 | Indian Wars: 700 soldiers avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village in Nebraska, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1856 | Louis Sullivan - father of the skyscraper - was born.
1864 | Composer Hale A. VanderCook was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1864 | Civil War: Battle of Berryville, Virginia.
1880 | Outlaw Jess James' gang robbed the Mammoth Cave stagecoach in Kentucky.
1897 | Author Sally Benson was born.
1903 | American yacht Reliance defends America's Cup, beating British challenger Shamrock III.
1918 | Civil Rights: Five soldiers hanged for alleged participation in the Camp Logan riot.
1916 | POTUS: Democrat President Wilson signs the Adamson Act.
1921 | Ernest Hemingway weds Hadley Richardson in Bay Township, Michigan.
1925 | The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes.
1948 | Drummer Don Brewer was born in Flint, Michigan.
1956 | Civil Rights: Tanks are deployed against demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee.
1962 | Poet E. E. Cummings died.
1964 | U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy resigns.
1964 | POTUS: President Johnson signs the Wilderness Act into law.
1965 | Actor Charlie Sheen was born.
1970 | Pro Football Coach Vince Lombardi died.
1986 | Snowboarding Pro Shaun White was born.
1991 | Director Frank Capra died.
1995 | eBay was founded.
2002 | Entrepreneur W. Clement Stone died.
2005 | SCOTUS: Chief Justice William Rehnquist died.
2007 | Adventurer Steve Fossett died.