What happend on 3rd September

02.09
04.09
1914

Papacy of Giacomo della Chiesa began. He becomes pope Benedict XV.

1902

Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.

1895

The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0).

1878

Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

1874

The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".

1861

American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.

1855

Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.

1838

Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.

1826

The USS Vincennes commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe.

1798

Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.