Daily Calendar for Sunday, September 3, 2028

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2028-09-03T00:00:00
End: 2028-09-03T23:59:59

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The Harvest Moon is the full Moon nearest the autumnal equinox and is bright enough to allow finishing all the harvest chores.

Treaty of Paris signed between the U.S. and Great Britain – 1783
New York Sun became the first daily penny press” newspaper” – 1833
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped slavery – 1838
First classes at U.S. Naval War College began – 1885
First professional football game played – 1895
World record set by auto averaging 301.13 mph for 1 mile, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah – 1935
Search for Tomorrow first aired on television – 1951
Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars at Utopia Planitia – 1976
19-inning baseball game began at Fenway Park in Boston – 1981
47-lb. flathead catfish caught, Ohio River, Pennsylvania – 2006

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. – 1658
A hurricane caused a 13-foot storm surge in New York City – 1821
Denver, Colorado, got 4.2 inches of snow – 1961
A hailstone measuring 17.5 inches in circumference and weighing 1.671 pounds was picked up and photographed in Coffeyville, Kansas – 1970
89 degrees F, Stampede Pass, Washington – 1988