Monday, September 3, 2018

Today is Monday, September 3, the 246th day of 2018. There are 119 days left in the year.

1783 — Treaty of Paris signed

1852 — Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm

1861 — Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality

1865 — Army commander in SC orders Freedmen’s Bureau to stop seizing land

1891 — Cottonpickers organize union & stage strike in Texas

1900 — British annex Natal (South Africa)

1902 — Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"

1912 — World’s first cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy

1914 — Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV