Wednesday, September 03, 2014

History for September 3

History for September 3 - On-This-Day.com:
Ferdinand Porsche 1875, Alan Ladd 1913 


Al Jardine (Beach Boys) 1942, Valerie Perrine 1943, Charlie Sheen 1965 


1783 - The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris. 


1833 - The first successful penny newspaper in the U.S., "The New York Sun," was launched by Benjamin H. Day. 


1838 - Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from being a slave. 


1939 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1. 


1954 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the final time after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years. 


1966 - The television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" ended after 14 years. 



1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution. 


1967 - In Sweden, motorists stopped driving on the left side of the road and began driving on the right side. 


1981 - Egypt arrested more than 1,500 opponents of the government. 

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