标题: Today in History - Sept. 3 [打印本页] 作者: steel 时间: 2008-9-4 09:59 AM 标题: Today in History - Sept. 3
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2008. There are 119 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Sept. 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.
On this date:
In 1189, England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
In 1658, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, died in London.
In 1939, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.
In 1943, the British Eighth Army invaded Italy during World War II, the same day Italy signed a secret armistice with the Allies.
In 1951, the television soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" made its debut on CBS. (It ran on CBS until 1982, when it moved to NBC until its final episode, which aired in December 1986.)
In 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
