Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 3

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  Viking 2 photo
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  Signing of Treaty of Paris
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  Dagen H in Stockholm
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  Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
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  Photographs of victims of the Beslan school siege
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  Richard the Lionheart
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  Wreckage of the USS Shenandoah
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  Malcolm Campbell
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  Giuseppe Farina
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  Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Flag Day in Australia;	unreferenced section
; Armed Forces Day in Taiwan	refimprove
301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.	refimprove section
590 – Gregory I, the first pope from a monastic background, began his papacy.	Lots of cn
1189 – Richard the Lionheart was crowned King of England in Westminster.	lots of CN tags (13)
1260 – The Mongols suffered their first decisive defeat at the hands of Egyptian Mamluks in the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine.	refimprove section, original research
1783 – The Peace of Paris formally ended the states of war between United States, France, Spain and Great Britain.	refimprove section
1838 – Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery, and went on to become famous as an abolitionist.	date not cited, refimprove section
1918 – The Bolshevik government of Russia published the first official announcement of the Red Terror, a period of repression against political opponents.	unreliable sources
1925 – The Template:USS, the U.S. Navy's first rigid airship, was torn apart in a squall line over Ohio.	refimprove section
1941 – The Holocaust: SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch first used the pesticide [[Zyklon B|Template:Nowrap]] to execute Soviet POWs en masse at Auschwitz; eventually it was used to kill about Template:Nowrap people.	date not in article; also the article doesn't say they were Soviet POWs, and gives a 1.1m figure not 1.2m
1950 – Giuseppe Farina won the Italian Grand Prix, becoming the first Formula One world champion.	results section contains a lot of unreferenced bits
1967 – [[Dagen H|Template:Nowrap]]: All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads in Sweden while drivers switched from the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side.	refimprove
1976 – The NASA Viking 2 spacecraft landed at Utopia Planitia on Mars.	unreferenced section
2004 – Russian security forces stormed a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, ending a three-day hostage crisis in which 334 of more than 1,100 hostages were killed.	WP:WTA persistent use of 'terrorist'
Frank Capra |d|1991|	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 36 BC – The Sicilian revolt against the Second Triumvirate of the Roman Republic ended when the fleet of Sextus Pompey, the rebel leader, was defeated at the Battle of Naulochus.
• 1411 – The Treaty of Selymbria was concluded between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman prince Musa Çelebi.
• 1650 – Under Oliver Cromwell, the English New Model Army ambushed a poorly prepared Scottish force at the Battle of Dunbar, the first battle of the Third English Civil War.
• 1878 – The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames after colliding (pictured) with the collier Template:SS, killing more than 600 people.
• 1901 – At the Royal Exhibition Building (pictured) in Melbourne, the flag of Australia flew for the first time.
• 1935 – On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
• 1942 – The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors.
• 1987 – While he was abroad, Burundian president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed in a military coup d'état by Pierre Buyoya.
• 1991 – A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
• 2017 – North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at Punggye-ri, causing a magnitude-6.3 earthquake.
• Born/died: | Umar al-Aqta |d|863| Edward Coke |d|1634| Ana Monterroso de Lavalleja |b|1791| Sarah Orne Jewett |b|1849| Astri Aasen |b|1875| Corry Tendeloo |b|1897| Macfarlane Burnet |b|1899| Percy Chapman |b|1900| Ferdinand Rudow |d|1920| Tereska Torrès |b|1920| Gaston Thorn |b|1928| Paddy Fox |b|1933| Scott Carson |b|1985| Pauline Kael |d|2001|

Notes

• Fanny Kaplan appears on August 30, so Red Terror should not appear in the same year

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• 863 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine Empire decisively defeated the Emirate of Melitene at the Battle of Lalakaon, beginning the era of Byzantine ascendancy.
• 1651 – English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell (pictured) won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The British Army and their Hessian allies defeated an American militia at the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.
• 1936 – The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.
• 2001 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.