September 3
1189 - Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey.
1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson and his crew aboard the Half Moon entered present-day New York Harbor and began sailing up the river that now bears his name. (They reached present-day Albany before turning back.)
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, the lord protector of England, died.
1783 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.
1929 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 381.17, it's pre-crash high.
1939 - Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand and France declared war on Germany two days after the German invasion of Poland; in a radio address Britain's King George VI said, "With God's help, we shall prevail." The same day, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner SS Athenia some 250 miles of the Irish coast, killing more than 100 out of the 1,400 people on board.
1943 - Allied forces invaded Italy during World War II, the same day Italian officials signed a secret armistice with the Allies.
1962 - Poet E.E. Cummings died in North Conway, New Hampshire, at age 67.
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam.
1976 - The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface.
1978 - Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1995 - The online auction website eBay was founded in San Jose, California by Pierre Omidyar under the name "AuctionWeb".
1999 - A French judge closed a two-year inquiry into the car crash that killed Princess Diana, dismissing all charges against nine photographers and a press motorcyclist, and concluding the accident was caused by an inebriated driver.
2003 - Paul Hill, a former minister who said he murdered an abortion doctor and his escort to save the lives of unborn babies, was executed in Florida by injection, becoming the first person put to death in the United States for anti-abortion violence.
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 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
2005 - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died at age 80.
2009 - A private funeral service was held in Glendale, California, for pop superstar Michael Jackson, whose body was entombed in a mausoleum more than two months after his death.
2010 - Defense Secretary Robert Gates toured U.S. bases and war zones in Afghanistan, saying he saw and heard evidence that the American counterinsurgency strategy was taking hold in critical Kandahar province.
2016 - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited the Great Faith Ministries International, a predominantly Black church in Detroit, to call for a “civil rights agenda for our time.”
2019 - Walmart said it would stop selling ammunition for handguns and short-barrel rifles, and the store chain requested that customers not openly carry firearms in its stores; the announcement followed a shooting at a Walmart store in Texas that left 22 people dead.
2020 - A report in The Atlantic detailed multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who had been captured or killed; Trump emphatically denied making the comments, many of which were confirmed by The Associated Press.
2020 - Facebook said it would restrict new political ads in the week before the election and remove posts that conveyed misinformation about COVID-19 and voting.
Birthdays
20 - Kaia Gerber (model)
29 - August Alsina (singer)
31 - Aaryn Gries (reality star)
35 - Shaun White (snowboarder)
37 - Garrett Hedlund (actor)
38 - Christine Woods (actress)
41 - Jennie Finch (softball player)
43 - Nick Wechsler (actor)
43 - Joel Johnstone (actor)
43 - Nichole Hiltz (actress)
45 - Ashley Jones (actress)
48 - Jennifer Paige (singer)
56 - Charlie Sheen (actor)
57 - Holt McCallany (actor)
78 - Valerie Perrine (actress)
81 - Pauline Collins (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 3
1895 - The first professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.
1928 - Ty Cobb records the 4,189th and final hit of his career.
1932 - Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelphia Athletics hits his 50th and 51st home runs of the year, joining Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson as the only players in MLB history to hit 50 home runs in a season.
1957 - Warren Spahn (Milwaukee Braves) recorded his 41st career shutout.
1966 - Bobby Orr (Boston Bruins) signed his first NHL contract. The two-year deal paid $70,000 plus a signing bonus, gave Orr the top salary in hockey.
1966 - The Houston Oilers hold the Denver Broncos to no first downs in a 45-7 win.
1970 - Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi died at age 57 from cancer.
1972 - Hank Aaron records his 6,135th total base, breaking Stan Musial's record.
1974 - Oscar Robertson retires from basketball with 26,710 points, 9.887 assists and 7,804 rebounds in his NBA career that spanned 1,040 games.
1974 - Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in MLB.
1988 - #2 Nebraska defeats Utah State 63-13.
1990 - Bobby Thigpen set a major league record when he got his 47th save.
1994 - Florida quarterback Terry Dean throws an NCAA record seven touchdown passes in the first half as the Gaytors rout New Mexico State 70-21.
1994 - Miami (FL) defeats Georgia Southern 56-0 to set an NCAA record with their 58th consecutive home victory. (Alabama had held the previous record of 57 from 1962 to 1982.)
1995 - The Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars make their NFL regular season debuts; the Panthers lost to the Atlanta Falcons 23-20 while the Jaguars lose to the Houston Oilers 10-3.
2000 - Kenny Lofton tied a major league record when he scored in his 18th straight game.
2005 - Nebraska opens the season with a 25-7 win over Maine.
2006 - Tennis player Andre Agassi announced his retirement.
2008 - The new Oklahoma City NBA franchise announces the team will be named the 'Thunder'; reference to powerful storms in the area.
2011 - #10 Nebraska opens the season with a 40-7 win over Tennessee-Chattanooga.
2016 - Nebraska opens the season with a 43-10 win over Fresno State.
2020 - The Philadelphia Phillies retire Dick Allen's #15.
1189 - Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey.
1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson and his crew aboard the Half Moon entered present-day New York Harbor and began sailing up the river that now bears his name. (They reached present-day Albany before turning back.)
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, the lord protector of England, died.
1783 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.
1929 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 381.17, it's pre-crash high.
1939 - Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand and France declared war on Germany two days after the German invasion of Poland; in a radio address Britain's King George VI said, "With God's help, we shall prevail." The same day, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner SS Athenia some 250 miles of the Irish coast, killing more than 100 out of the 1,400 people on board.
1943 - Allied forces invaded Italy during World War II, the same day Italian officials signed a secret armistice with the Allies.
1962 - Poet E.E. Cummings died in North Conway, New Hampshire, at age 67.
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam.
1976 - The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface.
1978 - Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1995 - The online auction website eBay was founded in San Jose, California by Pierre Omidyar under the name "AuctionWeb".
1999 - A French judge closed a two-year inquiry into the car crash that killed Princess Diana, dismissing all charges against nine photographers and a press motorcyclist, and concluding the accident was caused by an inebriated driver.
2003 - Paul Hill, a former minister who said he murdered an abortion doctor and his escort to save the lives of unborn babies, was executed in Florida by injection, becoming the first person put to death in the United States for anti-abortion violence.
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 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
2005 - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died at age 80.
2009 - A private funeral service was held in Glendale, California, for pop superstar Michael Jackson, whose body was entombed in a mausoleum more than two months after his death.
2010 - Defense Secretary Robert Gates toured U.S. bases and war zones in Afghanistan, saying he saw and heard evidence that the American counterinsurgency strategy was taking hold in critical Kandahar province.
2016 - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited the Great Faith Ministries International, a predominantly Black church in Detroit, to call for a “civil rights agenda for our time.”
2019 - Walmart said it would stop selling ammunition for handguns and short-barrel rifles, and the store chain requested that customers not openly carry firearms in its stores; the announcement followed a shooting at a Walmart store in Texas that left 22 people dead.
2020 - A report in The Atlantic detailed multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who had been captured or killed; Trump emphatically denied making the comments, many of which were confirmed by The Associated Press.
2020 - Facebook said it would restrict new political ads in the week before the election and remove posts that conveyed misinformation about COVID-19 and voting.
Birthdays
20 - Kaia Gerber (model)
29 - August Alsina (singer)
31 - Aaryn Gries (reality star)
35 - Shaun White (snowboarder)
37 - Garrett Hedlund (actor)
38 - Christine Woods (actress)
41 - Jennie Finch (softball player)
43 - Nick Wechsler (actor)
43 - Joel Johnstone (actor)
43 - Nichole Hiltz (actress)
45 - Ashley Jones (actress)
48 - Jennifer Paige (singer)
56 - Charlie Sheen (actor)
57 - Holt McCallany (actor)
78 - Valerie Perrine (actress)
81 - Pauline Collins (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 3
1895 - The first professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.
1928 - Ty Cobb records the 4,189th and final hit of his career.
1932 - Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelphia Athletics hits his 50th and 51st home runs of the year, joining Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson as the only players in MLB history to hit 50 home runs in a season.
1957 - Warren Spahn (Milwaukee Braves) recorded his 41st career shutout.
1966 - Bobby Orr (Boston Bruins) signed his first NHL contract. The two-year deal paid $70,000 plus a signing bonus, gave Orr the top salary in hockey.
1966 - The Houston Oilers hold the Denver Broncos to no first downs in a 45-7 win.
1970 - Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi died at age 57 from cancer.
1972 - Hank Aaron records his 6,135th total base, breaking Stan Musial's record.
1974 - Oscar Robertson retires from basketball with 26,710 points, 9.887 assists and 7,804 rebounds in his NBA career that spanned 1,040 games.
1974 - Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in MLB.
1988 - #2 Nebraska defeats Utah State 63-13.
1990 - Bobby Thigpen set a major league record when he got his 47th save.
1994 - Florida quarterback Terry Dean throws an NCAA record seven touchdown passes in the first half as the Gaytors rout New Mexico State 70-21.
1994 - Miami (FL) defeats Georgia Southern 56-0 to set an NCAA record with their 58th consecutive home victory. (Alabama had held the previous record of 57 from 1962 to 1982.)
1995 - The Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars make their NFL regular season debuts; the Panthers lost to the Atlanta Falcons 23-20 while the Jaguars lose to the Houston Oilers 10-3.
2000 - Kenny Lofton tied a major league record when he scored in his 18th straight game.
2005 - Nebraska opens the season with a 25-7 win over Maine.
2006 - Tennis player Andre Agassi announced his retirement.
2008 - The new Oklahoma City NBA franchise announces the team will be named the 'Thunder'; reference to powerful storms in the area.
2011 - #10 Nebraska opens the season with a 40-7 win over Tennessee-Chattanooga.
2016 - Nebraska opens the season with a 43-10 win over Fresno State.
2020 - The Philadelphia Phillies retire Dick Allen's #15.
