^B{^#!16!3 September^N! Feast Day of St Simeon Stylites the Younger, St Phoebe, St Remaclus, St Aigulf or Ayoul of Lerins, St Gregory the Great, St Cuthburga, St Hildelitha, and St Macanisius.
^B{1650^B} Cromwell defeated the Scots at the second Battle of Dunbar. ^B{1651^B} The Royalist troops under Charles II were defeated by Oliver Cromwell at the second Battle of Worcester. ^B{1783^B} Britain recognized US independence with the signing of a treaty in Paris. ^B{1916^B} The first Zeppelin was shot down over England. ^B{1930^B} Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, was destroyed by a hurricane which killed 5,000 people. ^B{1935^B} Malcolm Campbell reached a new world land speed record of 301.13 mph in ^I{Bluebird^I} on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. ^B{1939^B} Britain, New Zealand, Australia, and France declared war on Germany. ^B{1943^B} The Allies landed at Salerno, on mainland Italy, and the Italian government surrendered. ^B{1967^B} Sweden changed from driving on the left to the right. ^B{1976^B} The US spacecraft ^I{Viking 2^I} landed on Mars and began sending pictures of the red planet to earth.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Joseph Wright, British painter, ^B{1734^B}; Louis Henry Sullivan, US architect, ^B{1856^B}; Jean-LΘon JaurΦs, French socialist politician, ^B{1859^B}; Macfarlane Burnet, Australian immunologist, ^B{1899^B}; Alan Ladd, US actor, ^B{1913^B}; Brian Lochore, New Zealand rugby player, ^B{1940^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, ^B{1658^B}; Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Russian dramatist, ^B{1883^B}; e e cummings, poet, US ^B{1962^B}; Frederick Louis MacNiece, British poet, ^B{1963^B}; Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam, ^B{1969^B}; Frank Capra, US film director, ^B{1991^B}; David Brown, English engineer and industrialist, ^B{1993^B}.
