Born On This Day:

• Ferdinand Porsche, 1875
• Alan Ladd, 1913
• Kitty Carlisle, 1915
• Mort Walker, 1923
• Anne Jackson, 1926
• Eileen Brennan, 1937
• Al Jardine, 1942
• Valerie Perrine, 1943
• Judith Ivey, 1951
• Charlie Sheen, 1965

Died On This Day:

• Oliver Cromwell, 1658
• Ivan Turgenev, 1883
• e.e. cummings, 1962
• Vince Lombardi, 1970
• Alec Waugh, 1981
• Arthur Schwartz, 1984
• Frank Capra, 1991
• Pauline Kael, 2001
• William Rehnquist, 2005
• Steve Fossett killed, 2008

Today's Events:

• 1189 - Richard the Lionheart coronation.
• 1650 - Victory of English over Scots at Battle of Dunbar.
• 1651 - Battle of Worcester - Scottish Royalists under Charles II defeated by Cromwell's Commonwealth.
• 1697 - King William's War ends; French and English forces neither win nor lose.
• 1752 - There is no September 3 in England as the Gregorian calendar comes into force. Today becomes 9/14.
• 1777 - American flag first flown in battle at Cooch's Bridge, MD. Revolutionary War
• 1783 - Treaty of Paris signed by Benjamin Franklin, Johns Adams & Jay and Brits end Revolutionary War.
• 1791 - Following French Revolution, a new constitution comes into force in France, the third in the world after USA and Poland.
• 1833 - First successful penny newspaper in America, the New York Sun, first published by Benjamin Day.
• 1886 - Apache Geronimo surrenders to U.S. forces in Arizona ending American Indian Wars.
• 1895 - First professional football game played at Latrobe, PA. YMCA beats Jeannette Athletic Club.
• 1929 - US Stock Market peaks at 381.17 after a magnificent seven-year bull run.
• 1939 - Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany; U. S. declares neutrality.
• 1940 - High resolution color television first demonstrated over station W2XAB, CBS, New York.
• 1957 - Nine Black teenagers rebuffed by angry mob in attempt to integrate Central High in Little Rock.
• 1967 - 'What's My Line?' goes off CBS TV after 17 years 7 months.
• 1967 - At 5 a.m. in Sweden, the whole country switched from driving on the left to the right.
• 1976 - Second Viking spacecraft lands on Mars; unmanned ship takes first close-up color pix of planet's surface.
• 1978 - Pope John Paul I installed.
• 1997 - Dow rises 257.36 points - largest point gain ever, closing at 7879.
• 2000 - The musical 'Cats,' longest running in Broadway history, closes after 7,485 performances.
• 2004 - Russian troops storm Beslan school in bloody ending to Chechen terrorist hostage crisis; 335 dead, 172 children.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Cuthburga
• Pius X

Holiday:

• Independence Day Qatar (1971)

Non-Specific Holiday:

• JANAM (OR JANMA) ASHTAMI, Hindu Birthday Festival of Krishna
• ANANT CHATURDASI, Hindu Eternal Anniversary of 14th day of Month Bhaedra
• LABOR DAY (U.S. and Canada) First Monday in September.
• CH'UNG YANG, Festival of High Places in China (ninth day of the ninth moon)
• BIRTHDAY OF KRSNA. (Hindu)
• CHUSOK (Korea) on day of full moon of eighth lunar month.
• ROSH HASHANA (Jewish New Year) first and second days of lunar month Tishri.
• YOM KIPPUR (Jewish Day of Atonement) tenth day of lunar month Tishri.
• SUKKOTH (Jewish Feast of Tabernacles) 15th day of lunar month Tishri - five days after Yom Kippur
• SIMCHAT TORAH (Jewish Rejoicing of the Law) 23rd day of Tishri
• DURGA-PUJA (Hindu festival of Goddess Durga)
• PITRA PASKSHA and AMAVASYA, Hindu Feast of the Dead.
• LAKSHMI PUJA, Hindu Festival of the Goddess of Fortune
• CHUNG CH'IU CHIEH (Chinese mid-autumn festival) 15th day of 8th lunar month.
• OWARA KAZE NO BON, HACHIMAN & DOBUROKU MATSURI harvest festivals in Japan
• NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS' DAY - first Sunday after Labor Day in USA
• NATIVE AMERICAN DAY - fourth Friday in September in US
• RAMADAN, Muslim Holy Month