Daily Calendar for Thursday, September 3, 2026
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Thursday, September 3, 2026
Died
- Oliver Cromwell (military leader) –
- John McLoughlin (Father of Oregon”“) –
- e. e. cummings (poet) –
- Frank Capra (director) –
- W. Clement Stone (parlayed $100 into a $2 billion insurance empire) –
- William H. Rehnquist (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) –
- Michael Clarke Duncan (actor) –
Born
- Sarah Orne Jewett (author) –
- Ferdinand Porsche (auto manufacturer) –
- Alan Ladd (actor) –
- Robert Truax (Rocket Scientist) –
- Mort Walker (cartoonist) –
- Alison Lurie (American novelist; born in Chicago, Illinois) –
- Eileen Brennan (actress) –
- Charlie Sheen (actor) –
- Dominic West (actor) –
- Shaun White (snowboarder and skateboarder) –
Events
- Treaty of Paris signed between the U.S. and Great Britain –
- New York Sun became the first daily penny press” newspaper” –
- Abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped slavery –
- First classes at U.S. Naval War College began –
- First professional football game played –
- World record set by auto averaging 301.13 mph for 1 mile, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah –
- Search for Tomorrow first aired on television –
- Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars at Utopia Planitia –
- 19-inning baseball game began at Fenway Park in Boston –
- 47-lb. flathead catfish caught, Ohio River, Pennsylvania –
Weather
- According to the Royalists, the severe storm that struck the British Isles on this day in 1658 - also the day Oliver Cromwell died - was simple proof that the Devil had come for his soul. –
- A hurricane caused a 13-foot storm surge in New York City –
- Denver, Colorado, got 4.2 inches of snow –
- A hailstone measuring 17.5 inches in circumference and weighing 1.671 pounds was picked up and photographed in Coffeyville, Kansas –
- 89 degrees F, Stampede Pass, Washington –