History for September 3

History for September 3 - On-This-Day.com:
Ferdinand Porsche 1875, Kitty Carlisle-Hart 1914, 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.


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.


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.


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