On This Day: September 3, 2010
Birthdays:| 1728 | Matthew Boulton, Engineer who assisted James Watt | | 1913 | Alan Ladd, American film actor | | 1936 | Elizabeth Dawn, Actress ('Vera' in Coronation Street) | | 1940 | Pauline Collins, TV film and stage actress | | 1942 | Al Jardine, Guitarist with the 'Beach Boys' | | 1944 | Geoff Arnold, Sussex cricketer | | 1944 | Gary Walker, Of the Pop group 'The Walker Brothers' |
Events:| 1658 | Oliver Cromwell, known as the Lord Protector, died of pneumonia | | 1783 | The American 'War of Independence' came to an end, when Britain signed a treaty in Paris | | 1916 | Captain L. Robinson, flying over London, became the first pilot to shoot down a Zeppelin; he was awarded a 'Victoria Cross' | | 1935 | Malcolm Campbell achieved a new world landspeed record of 301.13mph on Bonneville Salt Flats, USA | | 1939 | Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland, starting World War 2 | | 1967 | Sweden changed to driving on the on the right side of the road, in common with most of Europe | | 1976 | The US spacecraft Viking 2 successfully landed on Mars | | 1988 | The first fines for not filling and returning poll tax registration forms were issued in Scotland | | 1996 | The United States launched 27 cruise missiles at "selected air defense targets" in Iraq as punishment for Iraq's invasion of Erbil city in Kurdish safe havens (Kurdistan) | | 2004 | The Russian Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 teachers and children, most Chechen Islamic terrorists were killed |
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