Today is Monday, September 3, the 245th day of 2007. There are 120 days left in the year.
590 _ St. Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1189 _ England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster
1783 _ The Treaty of Paris signed, ending the U.S. Revolutionary War
1852 _ Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1900 _ Britain annexes Natal (South Africa)
1914 _ Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
1916 _ Allies turned back Germans in WWI's Battle of Verdun
1930 _ Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 in the Dominican Republic
1939 _ Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada
1943 _ Allies invade Italy
1945 _ Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to Allies
1971 _ Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
1976 _ Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos
1978 _ Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
1978 _ Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff