3rd September M.N.Day.

[Red Lead Ted]

some interesting events on the 3rd September down the centuries.

301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus
1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America

1900 With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa
1939 World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
1988 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War.
Lionheart
1260 Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army
1483 Utrecht surrenders to Habsburg army
1501 Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres appointed Governor of the Indies by Spanish Queen Isabella I
1543 Cardinal Beaton replaces the Earl of Arran as regent for Queen Mary of Scotland
1632 Battle of Nuremberg: Duke Wallenstein beats Sweden
1650 Battle of Dunbar: England vs Scotland
1658 Richard Cromwell ("Tumbledown Dick") succeeds his father as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
1683 Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1697 King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1725 Britain, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover
1731 Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland
1752 Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1777 Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, a skirmish during American Revolutionary War
1779 Earl d'Orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America
1798 Battle of St. George's Caye: Week long battle begins between the Spanish Empire and Great Britain off the coast of Belize
1812 World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy
1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1832 Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
1833 New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
Victory in Battle
36 BC In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.

Roman General
Marcus Agrippa

Roman Emperor
Augustus Caesar
301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus

590 St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

Royal Coronation
1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed

King
Richard the Lionheart
1260 Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army
1483 Utrecht surrenders to Habsburg army
1501 Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres appointed Governor of the Indies by Spanish Queen Isabella I
1543 Cardinal Beaton replaces the Earl of Arran as regent for Queen Mary of Scotland
1632 Battle of Nuremberg: Duke Wallenstein beats Sweden
1650 Battle of Dunbar: England vs Scotland

Battle of Interest
1651 Battle of Worcester: Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists

English Military and Political Leader
Oliver Cromwell
1658 Richard Cromwell ("Tumbledown Dick") succeeds his father as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
1683 Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1697 King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1725 Britain, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover


1731 Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland
1752 Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1777 Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, a skirmish during American Revolutionary War
1779 Earl d'Orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America

Event of Interest
1791 French Revolution: The new French Constitution, declaring France a constitutional monarchy, is passed by the National Assembly

Politician and Revolutionary
Georges Danton
1798 Battle of St. George's Caye: Week long battle begins between the Spanish Empire and Great Britain off the coast of Belize
1812 World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy
1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1832 Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
1833 New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)

Event of Interest
1838 Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor

Abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
1852 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm, Sweden
1855 Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1861 Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality
1864 Battle of Berryville, Virginia
1864 US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Straits of Simonoseki
1865 Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
1874 The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
1878 British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die
1881 Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony
1881 1st US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears wins inaugural event beating William E. Glyn 6-0, 6-3, 6-2
1882 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
1889 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Henry Slocum defeats Quincy Shaw 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2
1891 Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
1900 With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa
1900 Russian troops now control both sides of the Amur River on the Russo-Manchurian boundary
1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1903 American yacht Reliance (largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built) defends America's Cup for the NYYC beating UK challenger Shamrock III off the New Jersey shore for a 3-0 series win
1904 For the only time in Olympic Games history, there is a throw-off in the discus final after Americans Martin Sheridan & Ralph Rose tie with a best throw of 128' 10½" in St. Louis; Sheridan wins with 127' 10¼"
1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attack the Marne
1914 Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
1914 French troops vacate Rheims
1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania
1914 Lemburg capital of Galicia, is taken after a three-day battle in which the Russians rout the Austrians
1916 Battle of Verdun: French counterattacks on German flanks push their frontline further from the town
1921 KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
1918 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot (or Camp Logan riot); in all 19 mutineers were executed.
1918 Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
1917 1st night bombing of London by German aircraft
1917 German troops overrun Riga, Latvia
1925 The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes in a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14, 29 survive


September 3 is a memorial day in Great Britain and Canada. This is Merchant Navy Day (in GB) or Merchant Navy Remembrance Day (in Canada).
The Merchant Navy of Great Britain has played a significant role in the British history. It suffered severe losses from German U-boat attacks during World War I and II. Around 32,000 merchant seafarers were killed during two wars, but along with the Royal Navy the convoys successfully imported enough supplies to allow an Allied victory.
Canadian Merchant Navy was created in 1939 in a few hours after the country officially entered World War II. Although Canadian Merchant Navy was relatively young, it played a major role in the Battle for the Atlantic, bolstering up the British Merchant Navy, that suffered high losses.
Merchant Navy Day became an official remembrance day on September 3, 2000 in Great Britain. Before introduction of this day Merchant Navy veterans were remembered on the annual Remembrance Day. In 2001 Canada created Merchant Navy Remembrance Day that also designated September 3 to recognize the contribution and sacrifice of Canadian merchant seafarers to the victory in World War II.

[happy daze john in oz]

Merchant Navy day here in Oz did not come into being until 2008.
It took a number of years and much lobbying of the feral parliament to get it passed.
Why no one can say as normally in such circumstances Oz would follow UK.
Along with hundreds of others I wrote to the them PM asking for the day to be recognized.

[Dennis McGuckin]

Merchant Navy day here in Oz did not come into being until 2008.
It took a number of years and much lobbying of the feral parliament to get it passed.
Why no one can say as normally in such circumstances Oz would follow UK.
Along with hundreds of others I wrote to the them PM asking for the day to be recognized.

Well done John.
Wouldn't have had a problem if it was getting them to fly the 'Gay' flag.
Sign of the times.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

I was part of the Vindi N.S.W. along with the Australian MN that agitated for MN day, now though not a big a day as the Anzac's, still an important day for all ex and serving MN members.
Des

Let Us Nor Forget.
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[happy daze john in oz]

Well done John.
Wouldn't have had a problem if it was getting them to fly the 'Gay' flag.
Sign of the times.

Den, the 'Rainbow' flag is flown here at the drop of a hat, Gay Pride marches lead by senior politicians and Police.
But come Anzac day Parade or Remembrance day there is rarely the Red Duster to be seen.
But as a poli you have to get your priorities right, go where the votes are.