History for September 3 - On-This-Day.com
Ferdinand Porsche 1875, Alan Ladd 1913, Mort Walker 1923 - Cartoonist ("Beetle Bailey")
Al Jardine 1942 - Musician (The Beach Boys), Charlie Sheen 1965 - Actor ("Two and a Half Men"), Shaun White 1986 - Olympic snowboarder
1783 - The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.
1838 - Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from being a slave.
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour. He reached 304.331 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
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.
1951 - "Search for Tomorrow" debuted on CBS-TV.
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 - The TV game show "What's My Line?" broadcast its final episode. The show aired over 17 years on CBS.
2013 - Hunters in Mississippi caught a 727-pound alligator.
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