On This Day: Wednesday September 3, 2014 Holidays San Marinos St. Marinus Day or Republic Day. Venezuela: Civil Servants Day. Events 1189 - Richard I (Richard the Lion-Hearted) was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. 1609 - Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan. 1777 - The flag Stars and Stripes was flown in battle for the first time at Coochs Bridge, Maryland during the Revolutionary War. 1783 - Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain. It was signed by representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain, and France, and the United States became a free and independent nation. 1838 - Frederick Douglass escaped slavery. He became an abolitionist, orator, writer, and diplomat. 1888 - George Eastman patented his roll film camera and registered the Kodak name. 1935 - New land speed record was set by Britains Malcolm Campbell in the Bluebird at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. The car averaged 301 mph. 1939 - Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. New Zealand and Australia joined in on the same day. 1939 - Passenger liner Athenia, transporting women and children to the United States, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. One-hundred and twelve people died. 1943 - British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery began the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, landing in Calabria. 1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution. 1967 - Sweden switched from driving on the left- to the right-hand side of the road. 1976 - Unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars, taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet. 1978 - Pope John Paul I installed as 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. 1995 - The online auction Web site eBay was founded in San Jose, California by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb. Births 1728 - Matthew Boulton, British engineer, inventor, and partner of James Watt. 1856 - Louis H. Sullivan, American architect of the first modern skyscrapers and writer. 1913 - Alan Ladd, American actor. 1915 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress. 1923 - Mort Walker, American cartoonist. 1964 - Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur. 1965 - Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez), American actor. 1986 - Shaun White, American professional snowboarder and skateboarder. Deaths 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, English soldier and statesman. 1948 - Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia. 1962 - E.E. Cummings, American poet and painter. 1970 - Vince Lombardi, American pro football coach. 1991 - Frank Capra, American motion-picture director. 2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States.
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