12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for September 3, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1189 – Richard I (“the Lionheart”) is crowned King of England.
- 1260 – Battle of Ain Jalut: Mamluks halt Mongol expansion in the Levant.
- 1651 – Battle of Worcester: Cromwell defeats Royalists, effectively ending the English Civil War.
- 1783 – Treaty of Paris formally ends the American Revolutionary War.
- 1838 – Frederick Douglass escapes slavery from Baltimore, beginning his path to abolitionist leadership.
- 1935 – Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes first to break 300 mph on land at Bonneville Salt Flats.
- 1939 – Britain and France declare war on Germany, beginning their involvement in World War II.
- 1943 – Allies invade mainland Italy (Operation Baytown); Italy secretly signs the Armistice of Cassibile.
- 1967 – “Dagen H”: Sweden switches from left- to right-hand traffic.
- 1976 – NASA’s Viking 2 lands on Mars and returns images from Utopia Planitia.
- 1995 – Pierre Omidyar launches AuctionWeb, later renamed eBay.
- 2004 – Beslan school siege in Russia ends in a deadly assault, with hundreds of hostages killed.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1942 – Al Jardine, Beach Boys co-founder and guitarist (83)
- 1965 – Charlie Sheen, actor and producer (“Two and a Half Men”) (60)
- 1969 – Noah Baumbach, film director and screenwriter (Marriage Story) (56)
- 1970 – Gareth Southgate, England men’s national soccer team manager (55)
- 1980 – Jennie Finch, Olympic gold medalist softball pitcher (45)
- 1986 – Shaun White, Olympic snowboarding champion (39)
- 2001 – Kaia Gerber, model and actress (24)
Today’s Deaths:
- 1658 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (59)
- 1883 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist (Fathers and Sons) (64)
- 1970 – Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame NFL coach (Green Bay Packers) (57)
- 1970 – Alan Wilson, guitarist/vocalist of Canned Heat (27)
- 1991 – Frank Capra, Oscar-winning film director (It Happened One Night) (94)
- 2007 – Steve Fossett, record-setting aviator and adventurer (63)
- 2017 – Walter Becker, co-founder of Steely Dan (67)
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