SEP 3: EVENTS: • 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the worlds oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus. • 1802 – William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. • 1875 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers. • 1895 – John Brallier became the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association. • 1933 – Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m). • 1950 – Nino Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix. • 1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network. • 1971 – Qatar becomes an independent state. • 1976 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars. BIRTHDAYS: • 1811 – John Humphrey Noyes, American activist, founded the Oneida Community • 1820 – George Hearst, American businessman and politician • 1841 – Tom Emmett, English cricketer • 1869 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate • 1899 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist, Nobel Prize laureate • 1905 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate • 1905 – John Mills, New Zealand cricketer • 1923 – Kishan Maharaj, Indian tabla player • 1926 – Uttam Kumar, Indian actor, singer, director, and producer • 1938 – Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate • 1951 – Denys Hobson, South African cricketer • 1971 – Kiran Desai, Indian-American author • 1974 – Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricketer • 1976 – Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor DEATH ANNIVERSARIES: • 264 – Sun Xiu, Chinese emperor • 1962 – E. E. Cummings, American author, poet, and playwright • 1969 – John Lester, American cricketer *2005 – William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States IMPORTANT DAYS: • Armed Forces Day (Republic of China) • Feast of San Marino and the Republic, celebrates the foundation of the Republic of San Marino in 301. • Flag Day (Australia) • Independence Day, celebrates the second independence of Qatar from the United Kingdom in 1971. • Levy Mwanawasa Day (Zambia) • Memorial Day (Tunisia) • Merchant Navy Remembrance Day (Canada) • Merchant Navy Day (United Kingdom)
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