September 3: Flag Day in Australia; Independence Day in Qatar (1971)
Richard the Lionheart
- 863 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine Empire decisively defeated the Emirate of Melitene in the Battle of Lalakaon, beginning the era of Byzantine ascendancy.
- 1189 – Richard the Lionheart (pictured) was crowned King of England in Westminster.
- 1783 – The Peace of Paris formally ended the states of war between United States, France, Spain and Great Britain.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch first used the pesticide Zyklon B to execute Soviet POWs en masse at Auschwitz; eventually it was used to kill about 1.2 million people.
- 1991 – A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, US.
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