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Events on September 3

• 1189 Richard Löwenherz is crowned King of England as Richard I in Westminster.
• 1791 French Revolution: In France, the National Assembly passes a new constitution in which the king has only a suspensive veto. France thus becomes a constitutional monarchy.
• 1814 Under the Conscription Act, universal military service is introduced in Prussia.
• 1926 On the occasion of the 3rd Radio Exhibition, the Berlin Radio Tower is inaugurated.
• 1939 Following the expiry of the ultimatum issued the previous day for a withdrawal from Poland, Britain and France declare war on the German Reich in the Second World War.
• 1955 The first self-dialed international telephone connection is established in Germany, namely the local Lörrach–Basel connection.
• 1967 Sweden switches from left-hand to right-hand traffic on Dagen H.
• 1971 East-West détente policy: Representatives of the four victorious powers sign the Four-Power Agreement on Berlin.
• 1995 Pierre Omidyar founds AuctionWeb in San José (California), from which the internet auction house eBay emerges.
• 2004 Beslan school siege: Russian elite units storm a school in the city of Beslan in North Ossetia that has been occupied by terrorists, where an unknown number of hostages are being held. More than 330 people are said to have been killed and up to 700 injured.
• 2017 In Frankfurt am Main, more than 60,000 people leave their homes as part of the evacuation to defuse a 1.8-ton air mine from the Second World War.
• 2018 The city of Chemnitz organizes a concert against the right wing together with the band Kraftklub under the motto #wirsindmehr. This was prompted by mourning marches initiated by right-wing groups in the preceding days.

Born on September 3

• 1875 Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automobile designer and entrepreneur
• 1900 Urho Kekkonen, Finnish president
• 1910 Maurice Papon, French politician
• 1913 Alan Ladd, American actor
• 1942 Alan Jardine, American musician (Beach Boys)
• 1951 Peter-Jürgen Boock, German terrorist
• 1960 Anett Pötzsch-Rauschenbach, German figure skater
• 1970 Gareth Southgate, English footballer
• 1971 Mirja Boes, German actress, comedian and singer
• 1991 Thomas Delaney, Danish footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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